Simon Yates, author of Against the Wall, takes us back to his early years as a climber - the escapades and excitement of a young life lived on the edge and for the moment, when experience was all-important and dramatic achievements and failures came as naturally as the hair-raising risks themselves.A mountaineering travelogue of dazzling variety, The Flame of Adventure moves from the camaraderie of deprived Russian climbers in the little-known peaks in the Tien Shan to the awesome experience of the North Face of the Eiger, from a rumbustious motorbike ride across Australia with a psychotic lorry driver. We meet a remarkable gallery of climbers, from Doug Scott to Joe Simpson, and, when not exploring high mountains, we enter the bizarre world of rope access workers: mavericks balancing high above building sites on the London skyline.

The Flame of Adventure

SIMON YATES

Literature & Fiction

Vintage

Simon Yates is 'the one who cut the rope' in Joe Simpson's award-winning account of their epic struggle for survival in Touching the Void. Afterwards, Yates continued mountaineering on the hardest routes. Perhaps the most testing of all was one of the world's largest vertical rockfaces, the 4, 000-ft East Face of the Central Tower of Paine in Chile. Battered by ferocious storms and almost crippled with fear just below the summit, Yates and his three companions are forced into a nightmare retreat. After resting in a nearby town, they return to complete the climb, but Yates knows he still has to face one of life's greatest challenges...

Against The Wall

Sports & Outdoors

Biographies

VINTAGE (RAND)

Biographies & Memoirs

JONATHAN CAPE.

Encyclopedia of Tables

Reference

Book Sales

Encyclopedia of Chairs

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Apple Press

Depicts chairs from the earliest times to the present

Arts & Photography

Grange Books

128 pages with 220 colour illustrations. A comprehensive chronological guide to styles from the 16th century to the present day.

1989 edition (printed Feb. 1999) from Quantum Books Ltd., London, 128 pages, with many color illustrations, in a dust jacket that has not been price clipped. Aside from bookstore stickers on the dj front and back, the only flaw is the name "Blaze" printed on the inside front page.

An Encyclopedia of Tables

Quantum Books Ltd.

The Wild Within: Climbing the world's most remote mountains

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Vertebrate Publishing

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