Hoogtekoorts: het raadselachtige verlangen naar de hoogste top
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789023411994 (9023411994)
Publish date: September 18th 2003
Publisher: De Bezige Bij
Pages no: 319
Edition language: Dutch
This book explores the differences between mountains as people imagine them, and mountains as they turn out to be when you’re on one. It’s a difference that has a habit of killing people. Through talking about historic understandings of mountains, MacFarlane is able to open up the broader territory ...
I read the majority of this on the plane ride returning from Fresno, over the Sierra Nevada and Rockies. MacFarlane is a young Brit, raised in exclusive schools, exposed to mountaineering through his grandfather and the schools. He's climbed extensively, on many of the world's most challenging and o...
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