Blank on the Map: Pioneering Exploration in the Shaksgam Valley and Karakoram Mountains 9781912560073

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Автор: Shipton Eric
Название: Blank on the Map: Pioneering Exploration in the Shaksgam Valley and Karakoram Mountains (Эрик Шиптон: Белые пятна на карте. Пионерские исследования в долине Шаксгам и горах Каракорум)
Издательство: Vertebrate Publishing
Классификация:

Пешие прогулки, пеший туризм, горный туризм

Скалолазание и альпинизм

Экспедиции

ISBN: 1912560070
ISBN-13(EAN): 9781912560073
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 192
Вес: 0.276 кг.
Дата издания: 01.04.2019
Серия: Eric shipton: the mountain travel books
Язык: English
Издание: New ed
Иллюстрации: 5 maps; 12 halftones, black and white; 6 illustrations, black and white
Размер: 156 x 234 x 13
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
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Поставляется из: США
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As I studied the maps, one thing about them captured my imagination - across this blank space was written one challenging word, Unexplored

In 1937 two of the twentieth centurys greatest explorers set off to explore an unknown area of the Himalaya, the breath-taking Shaksgam mountains. With a team of surveyors and Sherpas, Eric Shipton and H.W. Tilman located and mapped the land around K2, the second-highest mountain in the world. It was their greatest venture, and one that paved the way for all future mountaineering in that area of the Himalaya. For Shipton and Tilman, exploration was everything, with a summit a welcome bonus, and Blank on the Map is the book that best captures their spirit of adventure.

With an observant eye and keen sense of humour, Shipton tells how the expedition entered the unknown Shaksgam mountains, crossing impenetrable gorges, huge rivers and endless snow fields. Theres a very human element to Shiptons dealings with his Sherpa friends, and with his Balti porters, some of whom were helpful, while some were less so. The expedition uncovers traces of ancient cultures and visits vibrant modern civilisations living during the last days of the British Empire. Only when all supplies are exhausted, their clothes in tatters and all equipment lost do the men finally return home. A mountain exploration classic.

Blank on the Map: Pioneering Exploration in the Shaksgam Valley and Karakoram Mountains, Shipton Eric