Annapurna : 50 Years of Expeditions in the Death Zone,9780898867381

Annapurna : 50 Years of Expeditions in the Death Zone

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ISBN13: 9780898867381
ISBN10: 089886738X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-10-01
Publisher(s): Mountaineers Books
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Summary

A bold account of the 50-year history of climbing on Annapurna.

Author Biography

Since 1969, Reinhold Messner has gone on more than one hundred expeditions to the mountains and deserts of the earth. Recognized as one of the greatest mountaineers of all time, Messner does without expansion bolts, oxygen masks, or satellite phones. He has achieved a great many first ascents, conquered all fourteen of the world's 8,000-meter peaks, succeeded in traversing Greenland, and provided an answer to the mystery of the Yeti. He lives with his family in the South Tyrol in Italy

Table of Contents

Calculated Risk and the Death Zone
10(7)
FROM THE NORTH
First Ascent of Annapurna 1950
17(41)
Unknown World
24(5)
The Big Climb
29(9)
No Sense of Direction
38(4)
The Never-Ending Descent
42(16)
POSTSCRIPT
Victory, Death, and Rebirth The First Eight-Thousander (Photo Section 1)
58(10)
NO REGRETS
Critical View
68(14)
Himalayan Mountaineering 1950: The Alpinism of Conquest
68(1)
Fifty Years Later
69(2)
Other Accounts
71(2)
The Many Truths
73(5)
Drugs and Doping
78(4)
FROM THE SOUTH
First Ascent of the South Face of Annapurna 1970
82(14)
Himalayan Mountaineering 1970: The Pursuit of Difficulty
82(1)
The First Ascent of the South Face
83(13)
POSTSCRIPT
The Annapurna Traverse 1984
96(8)
MY ROUTE
Annapurna Northwest Face 1985
104(30)
Himalayan Mountaineering 1985: The Minimalist Approach
104(2)
The First Ascent of the Northwest Face
106(28)
FROM THE WEST-NORTHWEST
West Ridge/North Face Route to the Shoulder 1988
134(8)
A Retrospective New Routes (Photo Section 2)
142(6)
FACTS AND DATES
Annapurna Chronicle
148
Himalayan Mountaineering 2000: Mass Tourism
148
Annapurna Climbing History
150
Expeditions
162
Summit Successes
169
Monsieur Annapurna
173

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