Hamish Macinnes: 3 books
Call-out
A climber's tales of mountain rescue in Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Call-out is the definitive collection of tales about early mountain rescue in the Highlands of Scotland from Hamish MacInnes – Everest pioneer and arguably the most famous Scottish mountaineer of the twentieth century.
In the late 1960s, MacInnes led the Glencoe Mountain Rescue team and together...
Climb to the Lost World
Through dense Guyanian rainforest to the towering summit of Mount Roraima with Don Whillans and Joe Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Over 9,000 feet up on the top of Mount Roraima is a twenty-five mile square plateau, at the point where Guyana’s border meets Venezuela and Brazil. In 1973, Scottish mountaineering legend Hamish MacInnes alongside climbing notoriety Don Whillans, Mo Anthoine and Joe Brown trekked through dense rainforest...
by Hamish MacInnes
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Caught way up on the mountain, no one is safe, from the archetypal nightmare of Tony Kurtz, seen to freeze to death by his stranded rescuers as he hung off the Eiger, to events that unfolded on the Grand Teton, where rescuers narrowly escaped being clubbed to death by their reluctant rescuees.
This...