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A Slender Thread: Escaping Disaster in the Himalayas Paperback - 2001
by Stephen Venables; Introduction by Clint Willis
"A Slender Thread" tells the gripping tale of an accomplished climber's against-all-odds survival after a near-fatal plunge off one of the world's highest mountains. Premiering in February, Venable will be appearing in an IMAX film recreating Shackleton's heroic climb on South Georgia Island. 16 photos.
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There was something inevitable about the Panch Chuli expedition.
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- Title A Slender Thread: Escaping Disaster in the Himalayas
- Author Stephen Venables; Introduction by Clint Willis
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Tion
- Pages 360
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Da Capo Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2001-01-04
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781560252986 / 1560252987
- Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 9.03 x 6.06 x 0.79 in (22.94 x 15.39 x 2.01 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Library of Congress subjects Mountaineering accidents - India - Panch, Venables, Stephen - Travel - India - Panch
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00049748
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Da Capo Press, 2001. Softcover. Very Good. 6x0x9. Stephen Venables and three companions made the first ascent of Panchu Chuli Vâa remote Himalayan peak on the borders of India, Nepal and Tibet. A rappel anchor failed on the descent, pitching Venables into a 300-foot fall. Crashing through the black night, flung from rock to rock, he assumed that he was plunging to his death. Against all odds he survived, but was left stranded 19,000 feet above a labyrinth of glaciers and snow slopes with two broken legs, the threat of gangrene, and scant food or medical supplies. If he was to return to his wife and son waiting at home some 5000 miles away, Venables knew he had to draw on his reserve of courage and determination. The third Adrenaline Classic, A Slender Thread is a spellbinding account of Venables' survivalâand his intense personal struggle to understand the risks he takes for the sake of his insatiable passion for climbing. He comes as close to anyone to…
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New York: Thunder's Mouth Press/Balliett & Fitzgerald, Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2001. Trade Paperback. 1560252987 . An account of Stephen Venable's fall while climbing in the Himalayas, in which he broke both legs and lived to tell about it. One in publisher's Adrenaline Series, edited by Clint Willis. With numerous photos. --- A firm, clean, bright copy but with round sticker on spine, minor creasing to covers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 237 pages .
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