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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 04/07/2002
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ISBN: 9780099283867
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Length: 256 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
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Weight: 193g
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RRP: £9.99
Simon Yates, author of Against the Wall, takes us back to his early years as a climber - the escapades and excitement of a young life lived on the edge and for the moment, when experience was all-important and dramatic achievements and failures came as naturally as the hair-raising risks themselves.
A mountaineering travelogue of dazzling variety, The Flame of Adventure moves from the camaraderie of deprived Russian climbers in the little-known peaks in the Tien Shan to the awesome experience of the North Face of the Eiger, from a rumbustious motorbike ride across Australia with a psychotic lorry driver. We meet a remarkable gallery of climbers, from Doug Scott to Joe Simpson, and, when not exploring high mountains, we enter the bizarre world of rope access workers: mavericks balancing high above building sites on the London skyline.
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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 04/07/2002
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ISBN: 9780099283867
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Length: 256 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
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Weight: 193g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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Simon Yates' remarkable climbing journal, which offers the armchair alpinist a detailed account of lucky escapes, near disasters and more than a few triumphs, is one of the most readable mountaineering books currently on the market
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