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Nine Lives

Expeditions to Everest


£ 11.96 £11.96 each £ 14.95 full price
Paperback
ISBN: 9781839810374
240 pages
Author
Robert Mads Anderson
Publication date
5 Nov 2020
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Robert Mads Anderson is an elite mountaineer with a solitary goal: to conquer Everest. After nearly getting killed on his first expedition, he led a team up a new route on the Kangshung Face without oxygen or Sherpa support, climbed solo on the remote North Face, and finally guided a team to the top of the world.

Incorporating a who’s who of internationally recognised climbers, including Stephen Venables, Reinhold Messner and Chris Bonington, Nine Lives traces the story of Everest, from the big, nationally supported expeditions of the 1980s; through the small teams forging new routes and climbing solo; to the commercially guided expeditions of today.

Set against the majestic backdrop of the world’s tallest peak, Anderson’s nine Everest expeditions over eighteen years define what truly drives a human being to the greatest of heights. With a foreword by Peter Hillary and 32 pages of colour photography, in Nine Lives Robert Mads Anderson offers his personal account of the world’s highest mountain.

Robert Mads Anderson is a mountaineer, expedition leader and author. In 1988, he led the ascent of a new route on the Kangshung Face of Everest, climbing without Sherpas or oxygen, before going on to climb the Seven Summits, solo. In addition to climbing Everest twice over the course of nine expeditions, he has also reached the summits of Himalayan giants Cho Oyu, Shishapangma and Makalu. He is the author of 7 Summits Solo, To Everest via Antarctica and Antonovs over the Arctic: Flying to the North Pole in Russian Biplanes, and he lectures widely, from the Smithsonian, Washington DC, to the annual Explorers Club dinner in New York City. When not on expedition, he lives in Manchester. 

  • Title: Nine Lives 
  • Subtitle: Expeditions to Everest
  • Author: Robert Mads Anderson
  • Imprint: Vertebrate Publishing
  • ISBN: 978-1-83981-037-4
  • Rights: UK & Europe
  • Publication date: 5 November 2020
  • Edition: First
  • Size: 240mm x 160mm 
  • Extent: 204 pages, with four 8pp colour plates
  • Cover: Paperback
  • Weight: 400g
  • Retail price: £14.95

‘Robert’s story of climbing on all three sides of Everest is full of narrow escapes. But what really shines out is the canny wisdom, courage, determination and sheer fun-loving chutzpah of a defiant optimist.’ – Stephen Venables

‘An amazing story capturing the essence of life’s moments climbing on Everest.’ – Chris Bonington

‘I must say this was some of the best writing I have enjoyed – ever! And not just mountaineering literature. Bravo!’ – Dr Peter Hackett, world-renowned high-altitude expert

‘I could not have climbed with any better team while being led by the best. Thank you for sharing your ninth life with me on the slopes and the summit of Mount Everest.’ – Sibusiso Vilane, first black African to summit Everest

‘Robert loves the environment of mountains, the challenge of mountains, the camaraderie built upon their flanks and the uncertainty that mountains toss into our lives.’ – Peter Hillary

Nine Lives is a brilliant book, absorbing and often riveting with the inevitable dangers of mountaineering and sweet successes graphically described. – Tony Orman, CORANZ

'Robert Mads Anderson has just written one of the best books ever published about climbing Everest.'  – Roger Foley, Wilderness magazine

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