内容説明
In this collection of stories, Chris Bonington looks at the adventurous impulse which has driven men and women to achieve the impossible in the face of Earth's elements - crossing its oceans, deserts and poles; canoeing its rivers; climbing its mountains; and descending into its caves.
目次
- Kon tiki, Thor Heyerdahl
- rowing the Atlantic, John Ridgway and Chay Blyth
- the man who raced himself, Francis Chichester
- golden globe, Knox-Johnston
- ice bird, David Lewis
- the empty quarter, Thesiger
- the Blue Nile, John Blashford-Snell and Mike Jones
- Annapurna the first 8000, Maurice Herzog
- the challenge of Everset, Hillary
- the Bonatti Pillar - Walter Bonatti at the Petit Dru
- Annapurna, South Face, Chris Bonington
- broad peak, Hermann Buhl
- Diamir - Reinhold Messner on Nanga Parbat
- the crossing of Antarctica, Fuchs and Hillary
- solo to the pole, Naomi Uemura
- first on the Moon, Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins
- dead man's handshake - Yeadon and Statham caving
- hot air - around the world non-stop in a balloon and by microlight - Branson, Rutan, Fossett, Elson, Piccard.
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