Upon That Mountain: The First Autobiography of the Legendary Mountaineer Eric Shipton

by Eric Shipton, Stephen Venables (Foreword by), Jim Perrin (Introduction), Geoffrey Winthrop Young (Foreword by)

Overview

Upon that Mountain is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer Eric Shipton. In it, he describes all his pre-war climbing, including his Everest bids of the 1930s, and his second Karakoram survey in 1939, when he returned to Snow Lake to complete the mapping of the ranges flanking the Hispar and Choktoi glacier systems around the Ogre.

Crossing great swathes of the Himalaya, the book, like so many of Shipton’s works, is both entertaining and an important addition to the mountain literature genre. It captures an important period in mountaineering history – that just before the Second World War – an ends on an elegiac note as Shipton describes his last evening at the starkly-beautiful snow lake, before he returns to a ‘civilisation’ about to embark on a cataclysmic war.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781912560080
Publisher:	Vertebrate Publishing
Publication date:	05/01/2019
Series:	Eric Shipton: The Mountain Travel Books
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Eric Shipton (1907-1977) was one of the great mountain explorers of the 20th century, often known for his infamous climbing partnership with H.W. 'Bill' Tilman. He climbed extensively in the Alps in the 1920s, put up new routes on Mount Kenya in 1921, and in 1931, made the first ascent of Kamet with Frank Smythe - the highest peak climbed at that time. Shipton was involved with most of the Everest expeditions in the 1930s, reaching a high point of 28,000 feet in 1933. He went on to lead the 1951 expedition, which was the first to approach Everest from the north (Nepali) side through the Khumbu ice fall, and on which Edmund Hillary first set foot on the mountain.

Table of Contents

Shipton’s Legacy for Mountaineers by Stephen Venables

Introduction: Eric Shipton by Jim Perrin

Foreword by Geoffrey Winthrop Young

Chapter 1: The Approach

Chapter 2: The Alps

Chapter 3: First Climbs on Mount Kenya

Chapter 4: Mount Kenya – the West Ridge of Batian

Chapter 5: Mountains of the Moon

Chapter 6: Everest 1933 - 1

Chapter 7: Everest 1933 – 2

Chapter 8: Large Expeditions

Chapter 9: Small Expeditions

Chapter 10: Nanda Devi

Chapter 11: Everest 1935, 1936, 1938

Chapter 12: Shaksgam – 1

Chapter 13: Shaksgam – 2

Chapter 14: Karakoram, 1939

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