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Upon That Mountain: the First Autobiography of Legendary Mountaineer Eric Shipton
Upon That Mountain: the First Autobiography of Legendary Mountaineer Eric Shipton in Bloomington, MN
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Upon that Mountain
is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer
Eric Shipton
. In it, he describes all his pre-war climbing, including his
Everest
bids of the 1930s, and his second
Karakoram
survey in 1939, when he returned to Snow Lake to complete the mapping of the ranges flanking the Hispar and Choktoi glacier systems around the
Ogre
.
Crossing great swathes of the
Himalaya
, the book, like so many of Shipton’s works, is both entertaining and an important addition to the mountain literature genre. It captures an important period in mountaineering history – that just before the Second World War – an ends on an elegiac note as Shipton describes his last evening at the starkly-beautiful snow lake, before he returns to a ‘civilisation’ about to embark on a cataclysmic war.
is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer
Eric Shipton
. In it, he describes all his pre-war climbing, including his
Everest
bids of the 1930s, and his second
Karakoram
survey in 1939, when he returned to Snow Lake to complete the mapping of the ranges flanking the Hispar and Choktoi glacier systems around the
Ogre
.
Crossing great swathes of the
Himalaya
, the book, like so many of Shipton’s works, is both entertaining and an important addition to the mountain literature genre. It captures an important period in mountaineering history – that just before the Second World War – an ends on an elegiac note as Shipton describes his last evening at the starkly-beautiful snow lake, before he returns to a ‘civilisation’ about to embark on a cataclysmic war.
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