Starlight and Storm por Rebuffat Gaston - 1956

Known for his lyrical writing and his ability to convey not only the dangers of mountaineering but the pure exaltation of the climb, Gaston Rebuffat is among the most well-known and revered Alpinists of all time. He rose to international prominence in 1950 as one of the four principal stalwarts in the first ascent of Annapurna, the highest mountain climbed at that time. Yet his finest feat as a mountaineer was to be the first man to climb all six of the legendary great north faces of the Alps the Grandes Jorasses, the Piz Badile, the Dru, the Matterhorn, the Cima Grande di Lava-redo, and the Eiger.With this elegant book, first published in 1954, Gaston Rebuffat transformed mountain writing. His insistence on seeing a climb as an act of harmonious communion with the mountain, not a battle waged against it, seemed radical at the time, though Rebuffat s aesthetic has since won the day. Through storms, avalanches, rock fall, unplanned bivouacs, and even the deaths of companions, we follow the Chamonix… Ler mais

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Random House Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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Modern Library, 1999. Paperback. New. 214 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.75 inches.

U.S.A.: J.M. Dent, 1956. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Browning spotting to cloth and jacket on spine. Price-clipped. .

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Oxford University Press. Hardcover. VG/Very Good. used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

London: Kaye & Ward. Good. Hardcover. 1968. 224 pages. No dj. <br> .

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