Mick Conefrey
Autor de The Adventurer's Handbook: Life Lessons from History's Great Explorers
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 20th Century
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 10
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 475
- Popularidad
- #51,908
- Valoración
- 3.4
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 47
- Idiomas
- 4
I enjoyed this book enormously; it is a book for general readers rather than climbing enthusiasts (although they will enjoy it too. Unlike "Into The Silence" it, thankfully does not spend too long on the journey to the mountains. What struck me most was that very little had changed between the twenties and the fifties; the organisations at home in Britain seemed as stuffy as ever; the technology, particularly in relation to oxygen was almost unchained; and the enthusiastic amateurism was still the rule, rather than the exception.
Highly recommended.… (más)