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Contents: Foreward by Greg Child; Author's note; Preface; Map legend; Map of the Karakoram region; Chapter 1 - to Pakistan; Chapter 2 - elusive summits; Chapter 3 - K2 at last; Chapter 4 - life and death; Chapter 5 - Everest; Chapter 6 - one more try; Chapter 7 - after 9/11; Chapter 8 - the killer mountain; Chapter 9 - the world's hardest mountains; Chapter 10 - the risk of regret; Chapter 11 - attack; Chapter 12 - passing the torch; Sources; Acknoledgements; Index

ISBN: 9780594859731

Accession Number: AC634

Call Number: DS485 S94 K37

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: American Alpine Club article

Websites

http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/13201214590/Karakoram-Climbing-Through-the-Kashmir-Conflict

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The Ogre : biography of a mountain and the dramatic story of the first ascent

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2017

Author: Scott, Doug

Publisher: Sheffield, U.K. : Vertebrate Publishing

Call Number: G530 T44 S36

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Author: Scott, Doug

Publisher: Sheffield, U.K. : Vertebrate Publishing

Published Date: 2017

Physical Description: xi, 244 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (on lining papers)

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Pakistan; Mountaineering; Accidents; Travel

Abstract: On the afternoon of 13 July 1977, having become the first climbers to reach the summit of the Ogre, Doug Scott and Chris Bonington began their long descent. In the minutes that followed, any feeling of success from their achievement would be overwhelmed by the start of a desperate fight for survival. And things would only get worse. Rising to over 7,000 metres in the centre of the Karakoram, the Ogre – Baintha Brakk – is notorious in mountaineering circles as one of the most difficult mountains to climb. First summited by Scott and Bonington in 1977 – on expedition with Paul ‘Tut’ Braithwaite, Nick Estcourt, Clive Rowland and Mo Anthoine – it waited almost twenty-four years for a second ascent, and a further eleven years for a third. The Ogre, by legendary mountaineer Doug Scott, is a two-part biography of this enigmatic peak: in the first part, Scott has painstakingly researched the geography and history of the mountain; part two is the long overdue and very personal account of his and Bonington’s first ascent and their dramatic week-long descent on which Scott suffered two broken legs and Bonington smashed ribs. Using newly discovered diaries, letters and audio tapes, it tells of the heroic and selfless roles played by Clive Rowland and Mo Anthoine. When the desperate climbers finally made it back to base camp, they were to find it abandoned – and themselves still a long way from safety. The Ogre is undoubtedly one of the greatest adventure stories of all time. (from Vertebrate Publishing website)

Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- PART 1 -- Chapter 1: The Mountain -- Chapter 2: Ancient History of Exploration -- Chapter 3: European Interest in the Region -- Chapter 4: The East India Company -- Chapter 5: Scottish Contribution to Empire -- Chapter 6: The Blanks on the Map -- Chapter 7: Early Mountaineering -- PART 2; Chapter 8: The Climbers -- Chapter 9: March to Base Camp -- Chapter 10: Climbing the Ogre -- Chapter 11: The Epic Descent -- Chapter 12: The Final Stretch -- Afterword -- Acknowledgements -- Further Reading -- The Author -- More books by Doug Scott.