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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.
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The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation, Library Edition
September 2007, Blackstone Audiobooks
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in English
- Unabridged edition
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The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation
September 28, 2007, Carroll & Graf
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0786720247 9780786720248
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The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation, Library Edition
September 2007, Blackstone Audiobooks
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143320746X 9781433207464
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The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation, Library Edition
September 2007, Blackstone Audiobooks
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1433207478 9781433207471
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The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation
August 25, 2006, Carroll & Graf
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0786715790 9780786715794
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