{"product_id":"9781912560080-upon-that-mountain","title":"Upon that Mountain","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe first autobiography of the legendary mountaineer Eric Shipton. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eUpon that Mountain\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer \u003cb\u003eEric Shipton\u003c\/b\u003e. In it, he describes all his pre-war climbing, and his second Karakoram survey in 1939.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u0026lt;\u003c\/p\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eUpon that Mountain\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer \u003cb\u003eEric Shipton\u003c\/b\u003e. In it, he describes all his pre-war climbing, including his \u003cb\u003eEverest\u003c\/b\u003e bids of the 1930s, and his second \u003cb\u003eKarakoram\u003c\/b\u003e survey in 1939, when he returned to Snow Lake to complete the mapping of the ranges flanking the Hispar and Choktoi glacier systems around the \u003cb\u003eOgre\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrossing great swathes of the \u003cb\u003eHimalaya\u003c\/b\u003e, the book, like so many of Shipton’s works, is both entertaining and an important addition to the mountain literature genre. It captures an important period in mountaineering history – that just before the Second World War – an ends on an elegiac note as Shipton describes his last evening at the starkly-beautiful snow lake, before he returns to a ‘civilisation’ about to embark on a cataclysmic war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41049943212129,"sku":"9781912560080","price":11.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/2c7f2ad33ff3116ae3f18c8f53dcf2c0.png?v=1698302971","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781912560080-upon-that-mountain","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}