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Elusive Summits
Four Expeditions in the Karakoram
- Paperback
- ISBN: 978-1-906148-67-6130 pages
- Author
- Victor Saunders
- Publication date
- 14 Mar 2013
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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.
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Mountaineer 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, making numerous first ascents. 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. In the years as an amateur and later as a professional, he clocked up a large amount of expedition time in the Karakoram and Himalaya and recently calculated that he had spent over five years of his life under canvas. He is the author of two books, Elusive Summits – which won the Boardman Tasker Prize in 1990, and No Place to Fall.
- 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
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