Expeditions

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Expeditions
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Andrew Lindblade
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:240
Category/GenreClimbing and mountaineering
Travel writing
ISBN/Barcode 9781876719319
ClassificationsDewey:796.522092
Audience
General
Illustrations colour illustrations, 8 maps

Publishing Details

Publisher Hardie Grant Books
Imprint Hardie Grant Books
Publication Date 2 March 2001
Publication Country Australia

Description

A series of accounts of expeditions undertaken by Australia's most exciting young mountaineer, Andrew Lindblade. There are several climbs shared with the reader in the book, including the amazing Fitzroy and Cerro Torre, Patagonia to Thalay Sagar's north face, Himalaya. Part mountaineering book and part travelogue.

Author Biography

Andrew Lidblade is active on the world mountaineering scene at the elite level. He was awarded the prestigious international mountaineering prize, the Piolet d'Or in 1998.

Reviews

"With brutal honesty, Andrew Lindblade has filled these pages with the fear, excitement, loneliness, bone-numbing cold, desperation, and heavenly joy of climbing on some of the most beautiful and difficult precipices on earth." -Tim Macartney-Snape