Blank on the Map: Pioneering Exploration in the Shaksgam Valley and Karakoram Mountains - Paperback
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Blank on the Map: Pioneering Exploration in the Shaksgam Valley and Karakoram Mountains
'As I studied the maps, one thing about them captured my imagination - across this blank space was written one challenging word, "Unexplored"'
In 1937 two of the twentieth century's greatest explorers set off to explore an unknown area of the Himalaya, the breath-taking Shaksgam mountains. With a team of surveyors and Sherpas, Eric Shipton and H.W. Tilman located and mapped the land around K2, the...
Eric Shipton (1907-1977) was one of the great mountain explorers of the twentieth century, often known for his infamous climbing partnership with H.W. 'Bill' Tilman. He climbed extensively in the Alps in the 1920s, put up new routes on Mount Kenya in 1921, and in 1931, made the first ascent of Kamet with Frank Smythe - the highest peak climbed at that time. Shipton was involved with most of the...
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Eric Shipton, T. G. Longstaff (Foreword by), Jim Perrin (Introduction by)
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