Born in 1934, Chris Bonington – mountaineer, writer, photographer and lecturer – started climbing at the age of sixteen in 1951. It has been his passion ever since. He made the first British ascent of the North Face of the Eiger and led the expedition that made the first ascent of the South Face of Annapurna, the biggest and most difficult climb in the Himalaya at the time. He went on to lead the expedition that made the first ascent of the South West Face of Everest in 1975 and then reached the summit of Everest himself in 1985 with a Norwegian expedition. He has written 17 books, fronted numerous television programmes and has lectured to the public and corporate audiences all over the world. He received a knighthood in 1996 for services to mountaineering, was president of the Council for National Parks for eight years, and is the Non Executive Chairman of Berghaus and a Chancellor of Lancaster University.
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H.W. Tilman: Snow on the Equator
’To those who went to the War straight from school and survived it, the problem of what to do afterwards was peculiarly difficult.’ For H.W. 'Bill’ Tilman, the solution lay in Africa: in gold prospec …
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H.W. Tilman: Mischief in Patagonia
'So I began thinking again of those two white blanks on the map, of penguins and humming birds, of the pampas and of gauchos, in short, of Patagonia, a place where, one was told, the natives’ he …
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H.W. Tilman: The Ascent of Nanda Devi
In 1934, after fifty years of trying, mountaineers finally gained access to the Nanda Devi Sanctuary in the Garhwal Himalaya. Two years later an expedition led by H.W. Tilman reached the summit of Na …
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H.W. Tilman: Mischief among the Penguins
’Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.’ So read the crew notice placed in the personal column of The Times by H.W. 'Bill’ Tilman in the spring of 1 …
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H.W. Tilman: When Men & Mountains Meet
’We had climbed a mountain and crossed a pass; been wet, cold, hungry, frightened, and withal happy. One more Himalayan season was over. It was time to begin thinking of the next. 'Strenuousness is t …
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H.W. Tilman: Mischief in Greenland
’Only a man in the devil of a hurry would wish to fly to his mountains, forgoing the lingering pleasure and mounting excitement of a slow, arduous approach under his own exertions.’ H.W. 'Bill’ Tilma …
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H.W. Tilman: Mount Everest 1938
’Whether these mountains are climbed or not, smaller expeditions are a step in the right direction.’ It’s 1938, the British have thrown everything they’ve got at Everest but they’ve still not reached …
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H.W. Tilman: Mostly Mischief
'However many times it has been done, the act of casting off the warps and letting go one’s last hold of the shore at the start of a voyage has about it something solemn and irrevocable, like ma …
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H.W. Tilman: Two Mountains and a River
H.W. Tilman’s Two Mountains and a River picks up where Mount Everest 1938 left off. In this instalment of adventures, Tilman and two Swiss mountaineers set off for the Gilgit region of the Himalaya w …
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H.W. Tilman: Mischief goes South
’No sea voyage can be dull for a man who has an eye for the ever-changing sea and sky, the waves, the wind and the way of a ship upon the water.’ So observes H.W. 'Bill’ Tilman in this account of two …
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H.W. Tilman: China to Chitral
In China to Chitral H.W. 'Bill’ Tilman completes one of his great post-war journeys. He travels from Central China, crossing Sinkiang, the Gobi and Takla Makan Deserts, before escaping to a crumbling …
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H.W. Tilman: In Mischief’s Wake
’I felt like one who had first betrayed and then deserted a stricken friend; a friend with whom for the past fourteen years I had spent more time at sea than on land, and who, when not at sea, had se …
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H.W. Tilman: Nepal Himalaya
Throughout 1949 and 1950 H.W. 'Bill’ Tilman mounted pioneering expeditions to Nepal and its Himalayan mountains, taking advantage of some of the first access to the country for Western travellers in …
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H.W. Tilman: Ice with Everything
’For most men, as Epicurus has remarked, rest is stagnation and activity madness. Mad or not, the activity that I have been pursuing for the last twenty years takes the form of voyages to remote, mou …
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H.W. Tilman: Triumph and Tribulation
’Experience is said to be the name men give to their mistakes and of the experience I gained in Spitsbergen that may well be true.’ The circumnavigation of Spitsbergen is the first of three voyages d …
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