Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
A Slender Thread : Escaping Disaster in the Himalayas - Stephen Venables

A Slender Thread

Escaping Disaster in the Himalayas

By: Stephen Venables, Clint Willis (Introduction by)

Paperback | 4 January 2001

At a Glance

Paperback


$60.99

or 4 interest-free payments of $15.25 with

 or 

Ships in 15 to 25 business days

Stephen Venables and three companions made the first ascent of Panchu Chuli V—a remote Himalayan peak on the borders of India, Nepal and Tibet. A rappel anchor failed on the descent, pitching Venables into a 300-foot fall. Crashing through the black night, flung from rock to rock, he assumed that he was plunging to his death. Against all odds he survived, but was left stranded 19,000 feet above a labyrinth of glaciers and snow slopes with two broken legs, the threat of gangrene, and scant food or medical supplies. If he was to return to his wife and son waiting at home some 5000 miles away, Venables knew he had to draw on his reserve of courage and determination. The third Adrenaline Classic, A Slender Thread is a spellbinding account of Venables' survival—and his intense personal struggle to understand the risks he takes for the sake of his insatiable passion for climbing. He comes as close to anyone to answering the unanswerable question: Why do they do it?

More in Climbing & Mountaineering

The Climber, Vol. 3 : The Climber - Jiro Nitta

RRP $33.99

$27.75

18%
OFF
Nepal : Lonely Planet Travel Guide : 13th Edition - Lonely Planet

RRP $36.99

$26.75

28%
OFF
Into Thin Air : A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster - Jon Krakauer
Outback Survival - Bob Cooper

RRP $24.99

$19.75

21%
OFF
Mountaineering : The Freedom of the Hills - Mountaineers Books
Touching the Void - Joe Simpson

$26.75

Wanderers : A History of Women Walking - Kerri Andrews
Beyond Possible : '14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible' Now On Netflix - Nimsdai Purja
There and Back : Photographs from the Edge - Jimmy Chin

RRP $89.99

$64.99

28%
OFF
The Art of Climbing - Simon Carter

RRP $65.99

$49.75

25%
OFF
The Push - Tommy Caldwell

Paperback

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
The Climb : Tragic Ambitions on Everest - Anatoli Boukreev
Mountaineering Women : Climbing Through History - Joanna Croston

RRP $65.99

$49.75

25%
OFF
Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain - Bruce Tremper
The Climber, Vol. 4 : The Climber - Jiro Nitta
From the Mountain's Edge - Ed Jackson
The Fear Bubble : Harness Fear and Live Without Limits - Ant Middleton
The Brilliant Outsider - Robert Wainwright

RRP $24.99

$23.75