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"A Slender Thread: Escaping Disaster in the Himalaya"
by Stephen Venables
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Publisher's Book Description
"Together with Chris Bonington and other distinguished British
climbers, Stephen Venables was high on the unclimbed and sacred
mountain of Panch Chuli when, at 1 AM on a dark Himalayan night,
his abseil failed and he fell catastrophically, somersaulting
from rock to rock and landing, seriously-wounded, at the end
of a rope suspended above a 50-degree icefield. This is the
story of his arduous and almost miraculous survival, and of
the brilliant, committed teamwork which brought him to safety."
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Publisher's Author Description
"Stephen Venables was born in 1954. He started climbing whilst
reading English at New College, Oxford. His first book, Painted
Mountains, won the Boardman-Tasker Prize for mountain literature,
whilst his most recent, Himalaya Alpine Style, won the
Banff Mountain Literature Festival Grand Award. Everest Kangshung
Face told the story of a remarkable new route up Everest's
biggest wall in 1988, when he became the first Briton to reach
the summit without supplementary oxygen. He earns his living
as a writer and lecturer, living with his wife and two children
in Bath."
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Book Reviews
Observer (UK)
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Book Details
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Publisher
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Hutchinson, UK
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Year
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2000
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Paperback Pages
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208 (Arrow Books, 2001)
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ISBN
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0099279061 (Arrow Books, 2001, Paperback Edition)
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