Thin Air : Encounters in the Himalayas

by Child, Greg

• ISBN13: 9780898865882
• ISBN10: 0898865883
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books

Summary

Climbing a Himalayan peak was the stuff of Greg Child's wildest dreams. Then in the late 1970s came a surprise berth on an expedition that was to define his career as a high-altitude mountaineer and transform him personally. A chronicle of his apprenticeship, Thin Air established Child as one of the great mountaineering writers of our time.

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(2)
Doug Scott
Preface to the Second Edition	9	(2)
Part One Shivling, Garwhal Himalaya, 1981 The Simple Life	11	(48)
1. Parting Clouds	13	(8)
2. The Place Where the World Began	21	(11)
3. Scorched Eyebrows	32	(7)
4. A Taste of Monsoon	39	(9)
5. Struggle and Calm	48	(11)
Part Two Lobsang Spire and Broad Peak, Karakoram, 1983	59	(84)
The Third Bird	59	(50)
6. Ice-cold in Islamabad	61	(5)
7. The Karakoram Highway	66	(9)
8. The Baltoro Glacier	75	(12)
9. The Palmist	87	(7)
10. The Tip of the Spire	94	(15)
On Broad Peak	109	(34)
11. Pubs in Strange Places	110	(9)
12. The Other Side of Luck	119	(15)
13. A Long Walk with Whillans	134	(6)
14. Phone Calls and Postcards	140	(3)
Part Three Gasherbrum IV, Karakoram, 1986 The Obscure Object of Desire	143	(1)
15. Unfinished Business	144	(12)
16. The Valley of the Scoundrels	156	(12)
17. Hurricane at Camp Three	168	(15)
18. The Gamble	183	(19)
19. The Summit	202	(11)
20. Heavy Return to Earth	213