Shishapangma : the alpine-style first ascent of the South-West Face
First published in 1984 as The Shishapangma Expedition, Shishapangma won the first ever Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. In 1982, following the relaxation of access restrictions to Tibet, six climbers set off from Britain to explore the little-known Shishapangma massif near the Nepalese border. Dealing with a chaotic build-up and bureaucratic obstacles so huge they verged on comical, the mountaineers gained access to Shishapangma's unclimbed South-West Face where Doug Scott, Alex MacIntyre and Roger Baxter-Jones made one of the most audacious and stylish ascents ever achiev
eBook, English, 2014
Vertebrate Publishing, New York, 2014