The 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?.
| Boys`` | A band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after |
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| Most of them died in the mountains, leaving behind the hardest question of all | Was it worth it |
Mountaineers Books The boys of everest: chris bonnington and the tragedy of climbing's greatest generation, paperback/clint willis
