{"product_id":"9781911342250","title":"The Shining Mountain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘It's a preposterous plan. Still, if you do get up it, I think it'll be the hardest thing that's been done in the Himalaya.’ \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo spoke \u003cstrong\u003eChris Bonington\u003c\/strong\u003e when \u003cstrong\u003ePeter Boardman\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eJoe Tasker\u003c\/strong\u003e presented him with their plan to tackle the unclimbed West Wall of \u003cstrong\u003eChangabang\u003c\/strong\u003e – the Shining Mountain – in 1976. Bonington's was one of the more positive responses; most felt the climb impossibly hard, especially for a two-man, lightweight expedition. This was, after all, perhaps the most fearsome and technically challenging granite wall in the \u003cstrong\u003eGarhwal Himalaya\u003c\/strong\u003e and an ascent – particularly one in a lightweight style – would be more significant than anything done on \u003cstrong\u003eEverest\u003c\/strong\u003e at the time. The idea had been Joe Tasker's. He had photographed the sheer, shining, white granite sweep of Changabang's West Wall on a previous expedition and asked Pete to return with him the following year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTasker contributes a second voice throughout Boardman's story, which starts with acclimatisation, sleeping in a Salford frozen-food store, and progresses through three nights of hell, marooned in hammocks during a storm, to moments of exultation at the variety and intricacy of the superb, if punishingly difficult, climbing. It is a story of how climbing a mountain can become an all-consuming goal, of the tensions inevitable in forty days of isolation on a two-man expedition; as well as a record of the moment of joy upon reaching the summit ridge against all odds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1978, \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Shining Mountain\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is Peter Boardman's first book. It is a very personal and honest story that is also amusing, lucidly descriptive, very exciting, and never anything but immensely readable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vertebrate Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064946999536,"sku":"9781911342250","price":12.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781911342250_p0.jpg?v=1763630921","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781911342250","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}