With Friends in High Places An Anatomy of Those Who Take to the Hills

by Slesser, Malcolm; MacInnes, Hamish

• ISBN13: 9781845961336
• ISBN10: 1845961331
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-01
• Publisher: Mainstream Publishing

Summary

This personal account of mountainclimbing spans a period of 66 years, during which time attitudes and technology have undergone vast changes. The motivation for mountain climbing is not risk; it is the joy of exploration of the vertical, whether it be a virgin summit, a lonely precipice, or simply a new line on a familiar rock face. It is to heighten the senses in lonely remote places. It is to remove all obstacles between the individual and nature. InWith Friends in High Places,Malcolm Slesser recalls perilous situations, such as the ill-fated Pamir expedition of 1962, and unusual environments including the Arctic and the Tropics that he has experienced throughout his decades of mountaineering and exploring around the globe.

Author Biography

Malcolm Slesser is an author, mountaineer and energy analyst who is widely known in the world of hill walking and mountaineering.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	p. 11
Foreword	p. 13
Preface	p. 15
Constructive Boldness or Destructive Folly?	p. 19
Falling in Love	p. 31
Where There's a Will, There's a Way	p. 43
Serendipity - Finding the Staunings Alps of Greenland	p. 59
The Tigers of Yesterday	p. 75
High Pique	p. 91
Peak of Communism	p. 107
Tropical Ice	p. 119
Yerupaja - Queen of the Andes	p. 137
Safety is Awareness	p. 149
Pushing the Boat Out	p. 163
Two Sides to a Coin	p. 179
Skiing Rough	p. 195
With Midges in High Places	p. 207
An Expedition Climbs on its Stomach	p. 217
The Mountaineer's Footprint	p. 229
50 Years On	p. 241
Appendices	p. 247
Glossary/Conversion Table	p. 257
Bibliography	p. 259
Index	p. 261
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