Ebook: Spirits of the Air

Kurt Diemberger belongs to an elite mountaineering club. He is one of only two climbers to have made first ascents of two 8,000-metre peaks – Broad Peak and Dhaulagiri. His Broad Peak ascent was the first eight-thousander climbed in alpine style without oxygen. He had climbed the major Alps north faces (the Eiger, Matterhorn and Grandes Jorasses) by 1958 and was awarded the fifth Piolets d'Or lifetime achievement award. But Diemberger's adventures revolve around more than climbing, as Spirits of the Air reveals. Of course, there is plenty of mountaineering – expeditions to Makalu and Everest,;Acknowledgements; Kurt Diemberger; PART 1; I Can Never Give Up the Mountains; Spirits of the Air; The Second Birthday; Double Solo on Zebru; Crystals from Mont Blanc; I Win a Car; As a Mountain Guide; PART 2; The Magic Carpet; How I got involved with Filming; Blind Man's Buff; Friendly Margherita; Our Brush with an Anaconda; Montserrat; On the Puddingstone with Jordi Pons and Jose Manuel Anglada; PART 3; Hindu Kush -- Two Men and Nineteen Camps; The Tactics of a Mini Expedition; Nudging Alpine-Style a Step Further; An Expedition Journal; Two Chickens Come Home to Roost.