Ebook: Clouds from Both Sides: the story of the first British woman to climb an 8, 000-metre peak
Author: Gillman Peter, Tullis Julie
- Tags: Cinematographers, Cinematographers--Great Britain, GAMES--Gambling--Sports, Mountaineers, Mountaineers--Great Britain, SPORTS & RECREATION--Business Aspects, SPORTS & RECREATION--Essays, SPORTS & RECREATION--History, SPORTS & RECREATION--Reference, TRAVEL--Special Interest--Sports, Biographies, Tullis Julie -- 1939-1986, Mountaineers -- Great Britain -- Biography, Cinematographers -- Great Britain -- Biography, GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports, SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects, SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essay
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing
- City: Great Britain
- Language: English
- epub
'If I could choose a place to die, it would be in the mountains.'
Clouds from Both Sides is the autobiography of Julie Tullis, the first British woman to climb an 8,000-metre peak – Broad Peak – and the first to reach the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain.
A truly remarkable woman, Julie describes her early days in a London disrupted by World War II; her family life, climbing, teaching and living by the sandstone outcrops of High Rocks and Harrison's Rocks in Tunbridge Wells, Kent; and her experience as a high-level mountaineer and filmmaker. Tullis demonstrates her determination and self-discipline through training to black-belt standard in both judo and aikido, and never allows financial concerns to keep her away from the high mountains – a place where she felt at peace. Filled with vivid accounts of frostbite, avalanches, snow blindness and exhilaration alongside her...