Vertebrate Publishing
  • 01142679277
  • info_AT_v-publishing_DOT_co_DOT_uk
  • Login
  • Basket
  • Contact Us
  • Home
  • Books
  • About
  • News
  • Events
  • Blog
  • Submissions
Join Our Mailing List

Sign up to be the first to find out about pre-order and special edition offers, author events, freebies, and receive an additional 5% off your order ... 

Don’t Show Again
  • Home
  • » Books
  • » Narratives
  • » Elusive Summits
  • Share Join Us Follow Us

Elusive Summits

Four Expeditions in the Karakoram


£ 7.99 £7.99 each £ 9.99 full price
Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-911342-19-9
130 pages
Author
Victor Saunders
Publication date
14 Mar 2013
  • Description
  • Author
  • Specification

At a time when the greatest mountains in the greatest ranges had been climbed by numerous routes, collected like stamps and written about extensively, Victor Saunders and his friends relished the exploration of the slightly lower, slightly humbler, but often more aesthetically satisfying and no less testing summits in the 6000- and 7000-metre range. With thousands of unclimbed peaks in the Karakorum and Himalaya to choose from, these were ripe fruit for the committed mountaineers of the day.

In his Boardman-Tasker-winning Elusive Summits, Victor Saunders describes four expeditions to the Karakoram, to Uzum Brakk, Bojohaghur Duanasir, Rimo and the stunning Spantik. Battling crevasses and violent weather, injured climbers and dropped rucksacks, Saunders and his friends make a string of exciting and difficult ascents.

Saunders communicates the highs and lows of expedition life with relish, good humour, and a keen eye for the idiosyncratic among his companions. His first book, Elusive Summits, is a wonderful celebration of the sheer exhilaration that comes from the hardest level of alpine-style exploration in the Karakoram.

Also available as an ebook:

Kindle UK

Kindle US

Kobo

iTunes

Google Play
 

Victor Saunders was born in Lossiemouth and grew up in Malaya. He started climbing in the Alps in 1978 and has climbed in the Caucasus, India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan. He became a UIAGM mountain guide in 1996 after a career as an architect in London. He relocated to Chamonix, France and became a member of the SNGM (National Syndicate of French Mountain Guides) in 2003. He has been on more than ninety expeditions in mountain ranges including the Himalaya and Karakoram, and estimates that he has spent seven years of his life under canvas. His previous books include Elusive Summits, which won the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature in 1990; No Place to Fall; and Himalaya: The Tribulations of Mick & Vic, co-written with Mick Fowler, which won the Grand Prize at the Passy International Mountain Book Festival in 2015.

  • Title: Elusive Summits
  • Subtitle: Four Expeditions in the Karakoram
  • Author: Victor Saunders
  • Imprint: Vertebrate Publishing
  • ISBN: 978-1-911342-19-9
  • Rights: Worldwide
  • Publication date: 16 January 2017
  • Edition: First
  • Size: 234mm x 156mm
  • Extent: 130 pages
  • Cover: Paperback
  • Weight: 220g
  • Retail price: £9.99 

Also available as an ebook:

  • Imprint: Vertebrate Digital
  • ISBN: 978-1-906148-67-6
  • Publication date: 14 March 2013
  • Price: £4.99

Other Titles You Might Like

The Shining Mountain Peter Boardman Cover Image
The Shining Mountain
New 2021 paperback edition. The Shining Mountain is Peter Boardman’s first book. It is a personal and ...
£ 7.99 £7.99 each £ 9.99 full price
No Place to Fall Victor Saunders
No Place to Fall
In No Place to Fall, Victor Saunder's follow up to Elusive Summits, he confirms his place at the forefront ...
£ 7.99 £7.99 each £ 9.99 full price
Troll Wall Tony Howard cover
Troll Wall
The untold story of the British first ascent of Europe's tallest rock face. Troll Wall tells the gripping ...
£ 14.39 £14.39 each £ 17.99 full price
Cold Wars Andy Kirkpatrick
Cold Wars
Cold Wars by Andy Kirkpatrick is the award winning follow up to the Boardman Tasker Prize winning Psychovertical. ...
£ 10.39 £10.39 each £ 12.99 full price
Nick Bullock Echoes paperback cover
Echoes
Echoes is the first book by British mountaineer Nick Bullock. A powerful and compelling exploration of ...
£ 7.99 £7.99 each £ 9.99 full price
Freedom Climbers Bernadette Macdonald
Freedom Climbers
Bernadette McDonald's Freedom Climbers is the incredible story of Poland's high altitude mountaineers ...
£ 10.39 £10.39 each £ 12.99 full price
  • Special Offer
All But One Barbara Swindin
All But One
The Alpine 4,000ers make up one of the mountaineering world’s major tick-list challenges. Barbara Swindin ...
£ 8.00 £8.00 each £ 10.00 full price
  • Join UsJoin Us
  • Follow Us Follow Us
  • View Us View Us
  • See Us See Us
  • Watch Us Watch Us
  • Read Us Read Us
  • Delivery and Returns
  • Privacy Policy
  • Trade Information
  • Terms and Conditions
  • About Us
  • Submissions
  • V-Publishing Blog
  • News

Join our mailing list

Website by Little Fire Digital

© Vertebrate Publishing Ltd 2021