The Ogre
Biography of a mountain and the dramatic story of the first ascent
$38.95
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
11 March 2020
Summary
‘One of the greatest mountaineering survival stories never told.’ – The Sunday Times
Some mountains are high; some mountains are hard. Few are both.
On the afternoon of 13 July 1977, having become the first climbers to reach the summit of the Ogre, Doug Scott and Chris Bonington began their long descent. In the minutes that followed, any feeling of success from their achievement would be overwhelmed b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781912560929 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1912560925 |
| Author: | Doug Scott |
| Publisher: | Vertebrate Publishing Ltd |
| Imprint: | Vertebrate Publishing Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 11 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 156mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
‘One of the greatest mountaineering survival stories never told.’ – The Sunday Times.
Doug Scott
Born in Nottingham in 1941, Doug Scott began climbing in Derbyshire when he was thirteen and soon discovering the cliffs of Snowdonia, Scotland, the Alps and the Dolomites. He completed his first Alpine season at the age of eighteen. In 1965, aged twenty-three, he went on his first organised expedition, to the Tibesti Mountains of Chad. It was to be the first of many trips to the high mountains of the world. On 24 September 1975, he and his climbing partner Dougal Haston became the first Britons to reach the summit of Mount Everest, via the formidable South-West Face. In total, Scott made forty-two expeditions to the high mountains of Asia, reaching the summits of forty peaks. With the exception of his ascent of Everest, he made all his climbs in lightweight or alpine style and without the use of supplementary oxygen. Scott was made a CBE in 1994. He was a president of the Alpine Club, and in 1999 he received the Royal Geographical Society Patron’s Gold Medal. In 2011 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Piolets d’Or, during the presentation of which his mountaineering style was described as ‘visionary’. In 1995 he founded Community Action Nepal (CAN), a UK-based registered charity whose aim is to help mountaineers to support the mountain people of Nepal. Up until his death in December 2020, Scott continued to climb, write and lecture, avidly supporting the work of CAN. He is the author of six books, including Up and About and The Ogre. Kangchenjunga is his final book.
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