{"product_id":"9781912560257-the-wild-within","title":"The Wild Within","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClimbing the world's most remote mountains\u003cbr\u003eThe Wild Within is the third book by Simon Yates, one of Britain's most accomplished mountaineers. Yates leads expeditions to the Cordillera Darwin in Tierra del Fuego, the Wrangell St-Elias ranges on the Alaskan-Yukon border, and Eastern Greenland, and this book relates his experiences of the rapid commercialisation of mountain wilderness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'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.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Wild Within\u003c\/i\u003e is the third book from \u003cb\u003eSimon Yates\u003c\/b\u003e, 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 \u003cb\u003eCordillera Darwin\u003c\/b\u003e in \u003cb\u003eTierra del Fuego\u003c\/b\u003e, the \u003cb\u003eWrangell St-Elias\u003c\/b\u003e ranges on the \u003cb\u003eAlaska-Yukon\u003c\/b\u003e border, and \u003cb\u003eEastern Greenland\u003c\/b\u003e. 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 \u003cb\u003eJoe Simpson\u003c\/b\u003e's \u003ci\u003eTouching The Void\u003c\/i\u003e, having to relive the events of \u003ci\u003ethat\u003c\/i\u003e trip to Peru for a Hollywood director.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYates' 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449965392246,"sku":"9781912560257","price":12.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27673422.jpg?v=1760446969","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781912560257-the-wild-within","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}