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The Magician's Glass: Character and fate: eight essays on climbing and the mountain life
By Ed Douglas
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By Ed Douglas
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'How much risk is worth taking for so beautiful a prize?’
The Magician’s Glass by award-winning writer Ed Douglas is a collection of eight recent essays on some of the biggest stories and best-known personalities in the world of climbing.
In the title essay, he writes about failure on Annapurna III in 1981, one of the boldest attempts in Himalayan mountaineering on one of the most beautiful lines – a line that remains unclimbed to this day.
Douglas writes about bitter controversies, like that ...
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