Full name: A Slender Thread: Escaping Disaster in the Himalaya

Author: Stephen Venables Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780099279068 9781560252986 0099279061 1560252987

Together with Chris Bonington and other distinguished British climbers, Stephen Venables was high on the unclimbed and sacred mountain of Panch Chuli when, at 1am on a dark Himalayan night, his abseil failed and he fell catastrophically, somersaulting from rock to rock and landing, seriously-wounded, at the end of a rope suspended above a 50-degree icefield. This is the story of his arduous and almost miraculous survival, and of the brilliant, committed teamwork which brought him to safety. Similar books: K2, Triumph and Tragedy by Jim Curran K2, the Savage Mountain by Charles Houston Annapurna by Maurice Herzog True Summit by David Roberts The Beckoning Silence by Joe Simpson Where the Mountain Casts its Shadow by Maria Coffey The Boys of Everest by Clint Willis No Shortcuts to the Top by Ed Viesturs Epic by Clint Willis The mountains of my life by Walter Bonatti Conquistadors of the Useless by Lionel Terray Dark Summit by Nick Heil No Way Down by Graham Bowley Fragile Edge by Maria Coffey Savage Summit by Jennifer Jordan