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adventurous
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
3.75
This is a journal account of the first ascent of an 8000 m mountain. The French mountaineering team spent several months attempting to climb one of three mountains and the Himalayas. They ended up finding a path up Annapurna which was the first 8000 m mountain ever climbed.
This book is really good, but also really slow. It was written in a time before there were multiple stories written about the same mountaineering group. When you read an account of Mount Everest, you know that the climber was telling a story that made their experience
Better than other climbers. This book is about the experience of mountaineering before mountaineering was a really popular subject. It also had documents of basic Alpine knowledge been experienced so he talks about watching the Sherpas take long, winded breaths as they send the mountain, and he talks about how it becomes difficult to think clearly once you get above a certain altitude. He talks About the logistics of climbing and the use of high-altitude porters and Sherpa. He discussed the effects of altitude on your mental health and your physical health. Annapurna, as a mountain is deceivingly simple, but because it doesn’t have clear-cut tracks like some of the other Himalayan mountains, the pathway is much more obscure and affected by snowfall. I’m really glad I read this book, but it did feel aged, and it was an accurate account of the mountain climbing which included the long-standing pedestrian nature of tracking through valleys and over glaciers into the base of the mountain, and I discussed the effect of weather and it did so in a way that was really honest and authentic to anybody’s experience of actually going on a hike in nature. So where is some books amount mountaineering are we started here? We got there by doing this, and then we did step 123 got to the top of a mountain 456 and now we’re done. This book was Creating an experience about the obstacles in the back-and-forth travel, and the issues with Weather, and with digestion and resolution of healthcare issues from the mountain. It was just a travel, log that included all the panel and all the excitement, and that created a very dry read but a very authentic one. It was a great read. I would be interested in reading more about the female expedition in 1978 which I hope is a little bit more of an exciting narrative. But this book I think really captures what it’s like to actually be in nature for a long period, and just knowing that this book was written By mountaineers who did not have a plan. They just saw a mountain, and they wanted to get it to the top of the mountain, but there was no prior history of how people have done it. It’s very interesting very exciting and really represent almost the end of the Explorer, nature of mountaineering.
This book is really good, but also really slow. It was written in a time before there were multiple stories written about the same mountaineering group. When you read an account of Mount Everest, you know that the climber was telling a story that made their experience
Better than other climbers. This book is about the experience of mountaineering before mountaineering was a really popular subject. It also had documents of basic Alpine knowledge been experienced so he talks about watching the Sherpas take long, winded breaths as they send the mountain, and he talks about how it becomes difficult to think clearly once you get above a certain altitude. He talks About the logistics of climbing and the use of high-altitude porters and Sherpa. He discussed the effects of altitude on your mental health and your physical health. Annapurna, as a mountain is deceivingly simple, but because it doesn’t have clear-cut tracks like some of the other Himalayan mountains, the pathway is much more obscure and affected by snowfall. I’m really glad I read this book, but it did feel aged, and it was an accurate account of the mountain climbing which included the long-standing pedestrian nature of tracking through valleys and over glaciers into the base of the mountain, and I discussed the effect of weather and it did so in a way that was really honest and authentic to anybody’s experience of actually going on a hike in nature. So where is some books amount mountaineering are we started here? We got there by doing this, and then we did step 123 got to the top of a mountain 456 and now we’re done. This book was Creating an experience about the obstacles in the back-and-forth travel, and the issues with Weather, and with digestion and resolution of healthcare issues from the mountain. It was just a travel, log that included all the panel and all the excitement, and that created a very dry read but a very authentic one. It was a great read. I would be interested in reading more about the female expedition in 1978 which I hope is a little bit more of an exciting narrative. But this book I think really captures what it’s like to actually be in nature for a long period, and just knowing that this book was written By mountaineers who did not have a plan. They just saw a mountain, and they wanted to get it to the top of the mountain, but there was no prior history of how people have done it. It’s very interesting very exciting and really represent almost the end of the Explorer, nature of mountaineering.
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