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Learning To Breathe
Af: Andy Cave
Engelsk Paperback
Learning To Breathe
Af: Andy Cave
Engelsk Paperback

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At the age of sixteen, Andy Cave followed in his father''s and grandfather''s footsteps and became a miner - one of the last recruits into a dying world. Every day he would descend 3,000 feet into Grimethorpe pit.
But at weekends Andy escaped from the pithead to a very different world - testing his nerve on the cliffs and mountains around Britain, and forging endearing friendships with his new companions.
Enduring the 1984-5 miners'' strike - the guilt, the broken friendships, the poverty - Andy continued to indulge his passion. In 1986, after much soul searching, he quit his job as a miner in order to devote himself to mountaineering. At the same time he decided to educate himself, acquiring almost from a standing start academic qualifications including a PhD in socio-linguistics. This extraordinary twin odyssey is graphically recalled in this remarkable book.
In the Himalaya in 1997 Andy achieved a courageous first ascent on one of the steepest and most difficult summits in the world - the North Face of Changabang. Seventeen days later, he and only two of his team-mates crawled into base camp, frostbitten, emaciated and traumatised. His account of this terrifying experience provides a dramatic climax to this compelling story.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9780099472667
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
009947266X
Udg. Dato:
2 mar 2006
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
129mm
Højde:
197mm
Forlag:
Cornerstone
Oplagsdato:
2 mar 2006
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