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The Wild Within

Climbing the world's most remote mountains

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'All mountaineers develop differently. Some go higher, some try ever-steeper faces and others specialise in a particular range or region. I am increasingly drawn to remoteness – to places where few others have trod.'

The Wild Within is the third book from Simon Yates, one of Britain's most accomplished and daring mountaineers. With his insatiable appetite for adventure and exploratory mountaineering, Yates leads unique expeditions to unclimbed peaks in the Cordillera Darwin in Tierra del Fuego, the Wrangell St-Elias ranges on the Alaska-Yukon border, and Eastern Greenland. Laced with dry humour, he relates his own experience of the rapid commercialisation of mountain wilderness, while grappling with his new-found commitments as a family man. At the same time he must endure his role in the film adaptation of Joe Simpson's Touching The Void, having to relive the events of that trip to Peru for a Hollywood director.

Yates' subsequent escape to the some of the world's most remote mountains isn't quite the experience it once was, as he witnesses first hand the advance of modern communications into the wilderness, signalled by the ubiquitous mobile phone masts appearing in once-deserted mountain valleys. He is left to dwell on the remaining significance of mountain wilderness and must rediscover what the notion of 'wild' means for him now.

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Authors:
Yates, Simon
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9781912560257
Illustrations Note:
Colour photographs in 2x 8pp colour plates; Black and white hand-drawn maps
Number of Pages:
240
Publication Date:
04/04/2019
Publisher:
Vertebrate Publishing Ltd
Year Published:
2019
Language:
English
Imprint:
Vertebrate Publishing Ltd
SKU:
9781912560257

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