My Quest for the Yeti
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780230768482 (0230768482)
Publish date: January 1st 2013
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Edition language: English
A bit of background: Reinhold Messner is, as you may know, a famous, record-breaking mountaineer. He was the first to climb Everest without supplemental oxygen, he was the first to climb all of the 14 eight-thousanders, and many other incredible feats. However, in the mid-to-late 1980s, he became th...
I admit it: I went into this book thinking that Reinhold Messners narrative about seeing the yeti in the Himalaya would be the rambling of a madmen. But this book took me by surprise. Following his encounter with a strange and foreign creature, Messner digs into the yeti myth and tries to explore...