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The Fear Bubble
- Harness Fear and Live Without Limits
- By: Ant Middleton
- Narrated by: Ant Middleton
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Ant Middleton is no stranger to fear: as a point man in the Special Forces, he confronted fear on a daily basis, never knowing what lay behind the next corner, or the next closed door....
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nothing good here, move on
- By Andrew on 12-11-19
By: Ant Middleton
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Touching the Void
- By: Joe Simpson
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Daniel Weyman
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Before climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were able to reach the unclimbed West Face of the remote Siula Grande, disaster struck....
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Don't listen whilst driving!
- By Andrew Matthews on 10-06-15
By: Joe Simpson
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A Light Through the Cracks
- A Climber's Story
- By: Beth Rodden
- Narrated by: Beth Rodden
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Renowned rock climber Beth Rodden’s inspiring memoir about overcoming devastating trauma, refusing to be held hostage by fear, and taking a leap toward healing....
By: Beth Rodden
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Ghosts of K2
- By: Mick Conefrey
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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At 28,251 feet, K2 might be almost 800 feet shorter than Everest, but it’s a far harder climb. It will kill you on the way up and the way down....
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The story behind the story - very good
- By Andrew on 04-11-15
By: Mick Conefrey
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The Next Everest
- Surviving the Mountain's Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again
- By: Jim Davidson
- Narrated by: Jim Davidson, Tim Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet....
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Epic & Inspiring Read
- By Karen S. on 26-03-24
By: Jim Davidson
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A Fine Line
- Searching for Balance Among Mountains
- By: Graham Zimmerman
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Zimmerman writes of the exhilaration he feels while climbing but also the painful realization that summiting at all costs is an outdated model. As A Fine Line traces Graham's journey, mountain lovers everywhere will see themselves in this coming-of-age story of adventure and personal reckoning....
By: Graham Zimmerman
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The Fear Bubble
- Harness Fear and Live Without Limits
- By: Ant Middleton
- Narrated by: Ant Middleton
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Ant Middleton is no stranger to fear: as a point man in the Special Forces, he confronted fear on a daily basis, never knowing what lay behind the next corner, or the next closed door....
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nothing good here, move on
- By Andrew on 12-11-19
By: Ant Middleton
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Touching the Void
- By: Joe Simpson
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Daniel Weyman
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Before climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were able to reach the unclimbed West Face of the remote Siula Grande, disaster struck....
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Don't listen whilst driving!
- By Andrew Matthews on 10-06-15
By: Joe Simpson
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A Light Through the Cracks
- A Climber's Story
- By: Beth Rodden
- Narrated by: Beth Rodden
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Renowned rock climber Beth Rodden’s inspiring memoir about overcoming devastating trauma, refusing to be held hostage by fear, and taking a leap toward healing....
By: Beth Rodden
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Ghosts of K2
- By: Mick Conefrey
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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At 28,251 feet, K2 might be almost 800 feet shorter than Everest, but it’s a far harder climb. It will kill you on the way up and the way down....
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The story behind the story - very good
- By Andrew on 04-11-15
By: Mick Conefrey
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The Next Everest
- Surviving the Mountain's Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again
- By: Jim Davidson
- Narrated by: Jim Davidson, Tim Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet....
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Epic & Inspiring Read
- By Karen S. on 26-03-24
By: Jim Davidson
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A Fine Line
- Searching for Balance Among Mountains
- By: Graham Zimmerman
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Zimmerman writes of the exhilaration he feels while climbing but also the painful realization that summiting at all costs is an outdated model. As A Fine Line traces Graham's journey, mountain lovers everywhere will see themselves in this coming-of-age story of adventure and personal reckoning....
By: Graham Zimmerman
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High Risk
- Climbing to Extinction
- By: Brian Hall
- Narrated by: Sam Stafford
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Through the seventies and into the mid-eighties, a cohort of young climbers challenged the siege mentality of their seniors on high mountains in the Greater Ranges with fast moving, lightweight expeditions run on a shoestring. Brian Hall was one of them....
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excellent
- By Black Rod on 14-10-22
By: Brian Hall
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Lucky
- By: Ed Jackson
- Narrated by: Ed Jackson
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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From millimetres to mountains—Lucky is an inspirational story of triumph over adversity against the odds....
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personal, real and very dear to my heart
- By Mina Stephanos on 02-04-24
By: Ed Jackson
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Beyond the Mountain
- By: Steve House, Reinhold Messner - foreword
- Narrated by: Steve House
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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Steve House built his reputation on ascents throughout the Alps, Canada, Alaska, the Karakoram, and the Himalaya that have expanded possibilities of style, speed, and difficulty....
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Not Great
- By Peter Page on 23-05-23
By: Steve House, and others
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No Shortcuts to the Top
- Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
- By: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time....
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Are you an 8000 m mountain nerd?
- By Emma on 04-02-07
By: Ed Viesturs, and others
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Up
- My Life’s Journey to the Top of Everest
- By: Ben Fogle, Marina Fogle
- Narrated by: Ben Fogle
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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In April 2018, seasoned adventurer Ben Fogle and Olympic cycling gold medallist Victoria Pendleton, along with mountaineer Kenton Cool, took on their most exhausting challenge yet – climbing Everest for the British Red Cross to highlight the environmental challenges mountains face....
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My favourite book ever!
- By Stephen on 20-07-19
By: Ben Fogle, and others
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127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Movie Tie- In)
- By: Aron Ralston
- Narrated by: Aron Ralston
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
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Yet with the new morning came an epiphany: if he could use the rocks vise-like hold to break his arm bones, his blunted pocketknife could serve as a surgeons blade....
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Excellent Story
- By Kate on 19-09-16
By: Aron Ralston
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Cairngorm John
- A Life in Mountain Rescue
- By: John Allen
- Narrated by: David Monteath
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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The Cairngorm mountains in Scotland are a magnet for climbers and walkers. John Allen spent more than thirty years in the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team saving the lost and injured....
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Unexpectedly, good!
- By Anonymous User on 20-03-24
By: John Allen
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Everest the Cruel Way
- By: Joe Tasker
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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On 30 January, 1981 Joe Tasker and Ade Burgess stood at 24,000 feet on the west ridge of Mount Everest. Below them were their companions, some exhausted, some crippled by illness, all virtually incapacitated. Further progress seemed impossible....
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People Will Climb Mountains
- By SocialGoose on 28-09-19
By: Joe Tasker
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A Line Above the Sky
- On Mountains and Motherhood
- By: Helen Mort
- Narrated by: Helen Mort
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Helen Mort has always been drawn to the thrill and risk of climbing: the tension between human and rockface, and the climber's powerful connection to the elemental world....
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Gripping, true and poetically written
- By Anonymous User on 10-04-22
By: Helen Mort
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Savage Arena
- By: Joe Tasker
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
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Savage Arena is both moving and exciting, an inspirational tale of the adventuring spirit which follows its own path, endlessly seeking new challenges, climbs and difficulties to overcome. It is not reaching the summit which counts, it is the journey to it....
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Gripping stories from the mountains
- By Hayley on 09-10-19
By: Joe Tasker
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Seven Steps from Snowdon to Everest
- A Hill Walker's Journey to the Top of the World
- By: Mark Horrell
- Narrated by: Philip Battley
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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He had been an ordinary hiker who had only read books about mountaineering. When he signed up for an organized trek in Nepal with a group of elderly ladies, little did he know that ten years later he would be attempting to climb the world's highest mountain....
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Funny and educational
- By Anonymous User on 15-07-21
By: Mark Horrell
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Alive
- The Story of the Andes Survivors
- By: Piers Paul Read
- Narrated by: Paul Ansdell
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes....
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couldn’t finish listening to, returned title...
- By BenGee333 on 17-10-19
By: Piers Paul Read
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The Shining Mountain
- By: Peter Boardman
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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"It’s a preposterous plan. Still, if you do get up it, it’ll be the hardest thing that’s been done in the Himalayas," said Chris Bonington when Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker presented him with a plan to tackle the unscaled west wall of Changabang - the Shining Mountain - in 1976....
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Excellent
- By Mrs Susan J Fraser-Smith on 01-10-20
By: Peter Boardman
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K2
- Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
- By: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering, with good reason....
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Excellent history of climbing K to
- By LtCol RD Rtrd on 24-01-16
By: Ed Viesturs, and others
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The Mountain
- My Time on Everest
- By: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts - contributor
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Veteran world-class climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs—the only American to have climbed all fourteen of the world's 8,000-meter peaks—trains his sights on Mount Everest in richly detailed accounts of expeditions that are by turns personal, harrowing, deadly, and inspiring....
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Totally Misleading
- By Peter Page on 20-12-23
By: Ed Viesturs, and others
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Call-Out
- A Climber's Tales of Mountain Rescue in Scotland
- By: Hamish MacInnes
- Narrated by: James Gibson
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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Call-Out is the definitive collection of tales about early mountain rescue in the Highlands of Scotland from Hamish MacInnes - Everest pioneer and arguably the most famous Scottish mountaineer of the 21st century....
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Terrific book, some horrendous pronunciation !
- By mrs j paterson on 15-10-23
By: Hamish MacInnes
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Ron Fawcett - Rock Athlete: The Story of a Climbing Legend
- By: Ron Fawcett, Ed Douglas
- Narrated by: Dan Bottomley
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Ron Fawcett is a natural-born climber. In 1969, while still at school in his native Yorkshire, he tied into a climbing rope for the first time and was instantly hooked. From that moment on, it seemed nothing else in his life mattered nearly as much as his next vertical fix....
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Psyched me up to a whole new level!
- By Travis on 03-05-20
By: Ron Fawcett, and others
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The Tower
- A Chronicle of Climbing and Controversy on Cerro Torre
- By: Kelly Cordes
- Narrated by: Bernardo de Paula
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Patagonia's Cerro Torre, considered by many the most beautiful peak in the world, draws the finest and most devoted technical alpinists to its climbing challenges. But controversy has swirled around this ice-capped peak since Cesare Maestri claimed first ascent in 1959....
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Even 100 stars is not enough!
- By Amazon Customer on 19-06-23
By: Kelly Cordes
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Jerry Moffatt - Revelations
- By: Jerry Moffatt
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
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When Jerry Moffatt burst onto the scene as a brash 17-year-old, rock climbing had never seen anyone like him before. Fiercely ambitious, even as a boy Moffatt was focused on one thing: being the best in the world....
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Inspiration
- By Gwyn on 11-06-23
By: Jerry Moffatt
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Eiger Dreams
- Ventures Among Men and Mountains
- By: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Philip Franklin
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a stirring, vivid book about one of the most compelling and dangerous of all human pursuits....
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Step by step excitement
- By Amazon Customer on 16-06-19
By: Jon Krakauer
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Eiger Dreams
- By: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Jon Krakauer
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant hardships and victories more brilliantly...
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Brilliant
- By Anonymous User on 22-11-23
By: Jon Krakauer
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The Bond: Two Epic Climbs in Alaska and a Lifetime's Connection Between Climbers
- By: Simon McCartney
- Narrated by: RJ Bayley
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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Simon McCartney was a young British alpinist climbing many of the hardest routes in the Alps during the late seventies, but it was a chance meeting in Chamonix in 1977 with Californian "Stonemaster" Jack Roberts that would dramatically change both their lives - and almost end Simon’s....
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interesting book
- By Helen on 09-08-19
By: Simon McCartney
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Wanderers
- A History of Women Walking
- By: Kerri Andrews, Kathleen Jamie - Foreword by
- Narrated by: Lauren Baldwin
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps....
By: Kerri Andrews, and others
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In Some Lost Place: The First Ascent of Nanga Parbat’s Mazeno Ridge
- By: Sandy Allan
- Narrated by: Saethon Williams
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In the summer of 2012, a team of six climbers set out to attempt the first ascent of one of the great unclimbed lines of the Himalaya - the giant Mazeno Ridge on Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth highest mountain....
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No Scottish narrators?
- By Tosca Marletta on 03-10-21
By: Sandy Allan