Kongur: China's Elusive Summit by Chris Bonington (1982) USSR

Kongur: China's Elusive Summit by Chris Bonington (1982) USSRForeword by His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh; Introduction by Michael Ward. This book describes a British expedition into the Xinjiang province of China, one of the very first western climbing expeditions to venture into these previously restricted areas of China. (Nowadays Xinjiang is once more restricted, at the center of a human rights controversy). The book describes a 1980 reconnaissance expedition, where the team had to learn the

50 pages of index

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the book ends with Harlin's attempt to climb the Eiger North face himself and exorcise his father's ghost

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There is a useful conversion chart in the front of the book comparing YDS

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where they failed to make the summit

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he testifies of the sacredness in beauty of life