The Boys of Everest
Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation
Nonfiction, Sports, Outdoors, Mountaineering
| Author: | Clint Willis | ISBN: | 9781680510881 |
| Publisher: | Mountaineers Books | Publication: | March 15, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Mountaineers Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Clint Willis |
| ISBN: | 9781680510881 |
| Publisher: | Mountaineers Books |
| Publication: | March 15, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Mountaineers Books |
| Language: | English |
•The exploits of mountaineering’s most colorful band of adventurers
The Boys of Everest by Clint Willis tells the gripping story of “Bonington’s Boys,” a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest’s first ascent. It is a story of tremendous courage, astonishing achievement, and heartbreaking loss. Chris Bonington’s inner circle included a dozen of mountaineering’s most legendary figures—Don Whillans, John Harlin, Dougal Haston, Doug Scott, Peter Boardman, Joe Tasker, and others—who together gave birth to a new brand of climbing. They took increasingly challenging risks on now-legendary expeditions to the world’s most fearsome peaks—and they paid an enormous price. Most of them died in the mountains, leaving behind the hardest question of all: was it worth it?
“Willis's classy style turns reportage into literature . . . Bonington's Boys come across as raw, anguished souls . . . As Willis describes in his artful prose, their suffering is not just a means to an end (the summit), it is an end.” –The New York Times
“A gripping adventure saga . . .”–Publishers Weekly
“A death-haunted saga of the scalers of heaven . . .” –Kirkus Reviews
“Mr. Willis tells a story that is gripping and poignant and even appalling . . .” –The Wall Street Journal
•The exploits of mountaineering’s most colorful band of adventurers
The Boys of Everest by Clint Willis tells the gripping story of “Bonington’s Boys,” a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest’s first ascent. It is a story of tremendous courage, astonishing achievement, and heartbreaking loss. Chris Bonington’s inner circle included a dozen of mountaineering’s most legendary figures—Don Whillans, John Harlin, Dougal Haston, Doug Scott, Peter Boardman, Joe Tasker, and others—who together gave birth to a new brand of climbing. They took increasingly challenging risks on now-legendary expeditions to the world’s most fearsome peaks—and they paid an enormous price. Most of them died in the mountains, leaving behind the hardest question of all: was it worth it?
“Willis's classy style turns reportage into literature . . . Bonington's Boys come across as raw, anguished souls . . . As Willis describes in his artful prose, their suffering is not just a means to an end (the summit), it is an end.” –The New York Times
“A gripping adventure saga . . .”–Publishers Weekly
“A death-haunted saga of the scalers of heaven . . .” –Kirkus Reviews
“Mr. Willis tells a story that is gripping and poignant and even appalling . . .” –The Wall Street Journal
