From one of the most daring mountaineers of modern times, Walter Bonatti's The Mountains of My Life is an account of years spent conquering the most intimidating peaks on Earth, translated and with a foreword by Robert Marshall in Penguin Modern Classics. The Mountains of My Life is the breathtaking collection of Walter Bonatti's classic writings, detailing a life on the world's toughest ascents. He describes the staggeringly basic equipment he used and the fear, joy and serenity he finds on these daring ascents, as well as the importance of finding his courage and challenging himself. Included here too is the real story behind the feuds and controversy that were sparked by the K2 ascent that changed his life. Bonatti, one of the greatest mountaineers of all time, perfectly captures here in this awe-inspiring and passionate work the adventure, tragedy and sheer magnitude of his craft. Walter Bonatti (1930-2011) was born in Bergamo, Italy. As a young man he dedicated himself to extreme alpinism, and from the age of 19 to 35, he became an expert climber. In 1954 he played a vital role in the success of the Italian expedition that achieved the first ascent of K2. After 1965 Bonatti gave up mountaineering, turning to photojournalism for the Italian magazine Epoca, and travelling to remote places. If you enjoyed The Mountains of My Life, you might like T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Bonatti's voice reaches us from another world' The Press 'One of the most driven, audacious and successful mountaineers ... of all time' Andy Cave, Guardian

Modern Classics the Mountains of My Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Bonatti, Walter

Memoirs

Penguin Classic

Published for the first time in English, The Mountains of My Life collects the classic writings of world-famous mountaineer Walter Bonatti, and tells the real story of the 1954 controversy over the events on K2 that changed his life. Bonatti is one of the greatest mountaineers of all time, a man who continually reset the benchmark of human possibility by ascending routes that others dared not even contemplate. He climbed with an audacity and panache that epitomized the purest spirit of alpinism, and inspired an entire generation of climbers. Jon Krakauer calls him one of my heroes. He is not only a mountaineer of astonishing talent and vision, but one of the world's most engaging writers about mountaineering. Bonatti has also been dogged by controversy and often been at odds with the climbing community. The Mountains of My Life not only collects the best of Bonatti's writing telling of adventures in the Alps, the Himalayas, and little-known South American peaks it also tells Bonatti's version of what really happened on the Italian expedition that made the first ascent of K2 in 1954. Bonatti's selfless actions helped avert disaster, yet in the expedition's aftermath he found himself cast as a scapegoat. Part detective story, part hair-raising adventure, part meditation on his craft, The Mountains of My Life is as awe-inspiring and controversial as its author, and is beautifully illustrated with Bonatti's own photos.

The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration)

Modern Library

ISBN:0575018151, Hardback in pictoral dust jacket, published by Victor Gollancz, printed in Great Britain. 189 pages, 35 black and white glossy plates. yellow front and back end papers. Table of contents, List of illustrations, index. Published with the following Dedication on front leaf "To Reinhold Messner, last youthful hope of the great. tradition of mountaineering." Bonatti has been a great north wall man and he describes here thos of the North Wall of the Eiger, the Grandes Jorasses, the Whymper Spur, and the Matterhorn -- the first solo ascent by this route. He also writes of expedtions as far apart as the mountains of Greece and those of the Siberian arctic.

The Great Days

Sports & Outdoors

Mountaineering

Littlehampton Book Services Lt

Memoirs of leading postwar Italian alpinist, first published in Italian in 1961. Translated from the Italian by Lovett F. Edwards. Illustrated with photos.

On the Heights

Edwards, Lovett F.

Diadem Books

Muntanyes d'una vida

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Proa

Montañas de una vida: El testimonio de un hombre que hizo de las cumbresz estela de honestidad

Ediciones Desnivel, S. L

Montagne di una vita

BUR Biblioteca Univ. Rizzoli

In terre lontane (Italian Edition)

Baldini Castoldi Dalai

Un mondo perduto. Viaggio a ritroso nel tempo

Travel

Travel Writing

Baldini Castoldi

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