{"product_id":"9781680510874","title":"The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonnington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation","description":"\u003cp\u003eA well-regarded history of a famed era in mountaineering, newly brought back into print\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• The exploits of mountaineering's most colorful band of adventurers\u003cbr\u003e• Author is a climber and an award-winning writer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Boys of Everest by Clint Willis tells the gripping story of \"Bonington's Boys\": 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 heartbreaking loss. Chris Bonington's inner circle included a dozen of mountaineering's most legendary figures—Don Whillans, John Harlin, Dougal Haston, Doug Scott, Peter Boardman, Joe Tasker, and others—who together gave birth to a new brand of climbing. They took increasingly challenging risks on now-legendary expeditions to the world's most fearsome peaks—and they paid an enormous price. Most of them died in the mountains, leaving behind the hardest question of all: was it worth it?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mountaineers Books, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049896067312,"sku":"9781680510874","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781680510874_p0.jpg?v=1763689397","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781680510874","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}