This book tells the story of a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest’s first ascent. It is a story of tremendous courage, astonishing achievement and heart-breaking loss. Their leader was the boyish, fanatically driven Chris Bonington. His inner circle — which came to be known as Bonington’s Boys — included a dozen who became climbing’s greatest generation. Bonington’s Boys gave birth to a new brand of climbing. They took increasingly terrible risks on now-legendary expeditions to the world’s most fearsome peaks. And they paid an enormous price for their achievements. Most of Bonington’s Boys died in the mountains, leaving behind the hardest question of all: Was it worth it? The Boys of Everest, based on interviews with surviving climbers and other individuals, as well as five decades of journals, expedition accounts, and letters, provides the closest thing to an answer that we’ll ever have. It offers riveting descriptions of what Bonington's Boys found in the mountains, as well as an understanding of what they lost there.

The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation

Biographies & Memoirs

Willis, Clint

Community & Culture

Carroll&Graf

Clint Willis’s book tells the story of a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest’s first ascent. It is a story of tremendous courage, astonishing achievement and heart-breaking loss. Their leader was the boyish, fanatically driven Chris Bonington. His inner circle — which came to be know as Bonington’s Boys — included a dozen who became climbing’s greatest generation. Bonington’s Boys gave birth to a new brand of climbing. They took increasingly terrible risks on now-legendary expeditions to the world’s most fearsome peaks. And they paid an enormous price for their achievements. Most of Bonington’s Boys died in the mountains, leaving behind the hardest question of all: Was it worth it? The Boys of Everest, based on interviews with surviving climbers and other individuals, as well as five decades of journals, expedition accounts, and letters, provides the closest thing to an answer that we’ll ever have. It offers riveting descriptions of what Bonington's Boys found in the mountains, as well as an understanding of what they lost there.

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Da Capo Press

Traces the mountaineering achievements of Chris Bonington's team over the course of four decades, citing the contributions of some of the group's most famous members while recounting how numerous climbers lost their lives, in an account based on journal entries, expedition accounts, letters, and interviews with team survivors.

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

Blackstone Audiobooks

Traces the mountaineering achievements of Chris Bonington's team over the course of four decades, citing the contributions of some of the group's most famous members while recounting how numerous climbers lost their lives, in an account based on journal entries, expedition accounts, letters, and interviews with team survivors.

In 1970, Chris Bonington and his now-legendary team of mountaineers were the first climbers to tackle a big wall at extreme altitude. Their target was the south face of Nepal's Annapurna: 12,000 feet of steep rock and ice leading to a 26, 454-ft. summit. As serious armchair climbers will tell you, Annapurna South Face is better than all but a handful of equally gripping classics. One could also argue that all that has happened in the big mountains in the past 30 years has come out of this expedition and out of this book. Bonington and his team—most of whom subsequently died in the mountains—represented a kind of "greatest generation" of modern mountaineers. They pioneered a new, bolder approach to high altitude climbing, and this book is about how they hit the big time.

Annapurna South Face: The Classic Account of Survival (Adrenaline)

Bonington C.B.E., Chris

Hiking & Camping

Shark picks up where previous Adrenaline titles such as Rough Water and Deep Blue left off, with a collection focusing on man's terrifying interactions with one of the planet's most frightening beasts—an animal that arouses our most primal fears—fears that were recently brought to the surface by an outbreak of fatal attacks on this country's beaches. From novelists to sailors to oceanographers to divers, man's encounters with sharks have produced a diverse body of gripping, often inspired writing by great names in adventure literature. Along with 16 black-and-white photos, selections feature a wide range of work with an emphasis on thrills and chills, including Peter Matthiessen on the great white shark, Edward Marriott on hunting man-eaters off Nicaragua, Richard Fernicola's account of the 1916 shark attacks that inspired Peter Benchley's Jaws, and Jacques Cousteau's studies of the creatures.

Shark: Stories of Life and Death from the World's Most Dangerous Waters (Adrenaline)

Science & Math

May, Nathaniel

Biological Sciences

Da Capo

Daily news reports rarely bring home the messy reality of modern war in any but the most superficial and cliched terms. But the current tensions around the world are increasingly drawing the attention of some of our most gifted journalists and writers. In Writing War, the series editor of the thoughtful, visceral anthologies American Soldier: Stories of Special Forces from Iraq to Afghanistan and The War: Stories of Life and Death from World War II, has drawn on this growing body of compelling history-in-the-making, to create a timely compilation of the decades's most powerful writing about warfare. Featuring work by Robert Young Pelton, Scott Anderson, Philip Caputo, Jonathan Neale, James McPherson, Sebastian Junger, and many others, this revealing and powerful new collection captures the complex realities of warfare and conflict in hot spots from Iraq to Colombia to Somalia to Afghanistan.

Writing War: The Best Contemporary Journalism About Warfare and Conflict from Around the World (Adrenaline)

Literature & Fiction

United States

The Boys of Everest by Clint Willis tells the gripping story of "Bonington's Boys": a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent. It is a story of tremendous courage, astonishing achievement, and heartbreaking loss. Chris Bonington's inner circle included a dozen of mountaineering's most legendary figures: Don Whillans, John Harlin, Dougal Haston, Doug Scott, Peter Boardman, Joe Tasker, and others who together gave birth to a new brand of climbing. They took increasingly challenging risks on now-legendary expeditions to the world's most fearsome peaks and they paid an enormous price. Most of them died in the mountains, leaving behind the hardest question of all: was it worth it?

Biographies

MOUNTAINEERS BOOKS+

Storm: Stories of Survival Land Sea Sky

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mainstream Publishing

Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural

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The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation

The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation

The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation

The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation

Annapurna South Face: The Classic Account of Survival (Adrenaline)

Shark: Stories of Life and Death from the World's Most Dangerous Waters (Adrenaline)

Writing War: The Best Contemporary Journalism About Warfare and Conflict from Around the World (Adrenaline)

The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation

Storm: Stories of Survival Land Sea Sky

Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural