Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46735 in Books
• Published on: 1996-12-03
• Binding: Hardcover
• 890 pages

Customer Reviews

Great books. A must for mountaineers

Just a great group of Mountaineering books, original adventure, pain and suffering, emotion and humour. What more could you want. Right up there with White Spinder as a benchmark for other books.

Armchair mountaineering Grade V
The four books aren't just interesting because of their subject matter. Its the quality of the writing, personal insights and revelations made all the more poignant by the fact that both of the guys died together. I recommend the Boardman Tasker Omnibus without reservation. An inspiration.

Even good for non-climbers...
I read this book after beginning it in a climbing friend's house and not being able to put it down. As a non-climber, I wanted to know "why"! And I still don't know, but I don't think they knew either. But it is a fascinating read, especially when you can read both accounts of the same mountain (e.g. Changabang). Tasker's accounts tend to be much more straight accounts (especially in his earlier books), while Boardman's have more analysis (and also more technical description) but both styles are easy to read and manage to paint a picture of what they're doing to someone like me, with absolutely no knowledge of the sport at all. And having read them, I now have a huge amount of respect for the guys (and girls) who go off to try to do these things.