Up and About: The Hard Road to Everest by Doug Scott
By Doug Scott
Winner: Himalayan membership Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature
‘A complete and engaging portrait of 1 of the nice figures of mountaineering.’ – Michael Palin
‘As good as relaying the literal ups and downs of the largest partitions and optimum mountains on this planet, Scott writes with honesty in regards to the emotional and private peaks and troughs of a existence the place relatives relationships are positioned lower than pressure and existence itself is so frequently at risk.’ – The Westmorland Gazette
At nightfall on 24 September 1975, Doug Scott and Dougal Haston grew to become the first Britons to arrive the summit of Everest as lead climbers on Chris Bonington’s epic day trip to the mountain’s giant south-west face.
As darkness fell, Scott and Haston scraped a small collapse the snow a hundred metres less than the summit and survived the top bivouac ever – with out bottled oxygen, dozing baggage and, because it grew to become out, frostbite. For Doug Scott, it used to be the fulfilment of a fortune-teller’s prophecy given to his mom: that her eldest son will be at risk in a excessive position with the full global watching.
Scott and Haston again domestic nationwide heroes with their photograph splashed around the entrance pages. Scott went directly to turn into certainly one of Britain’s maximum ever mountaineers, pioneering new climbs within the remotest corners of the globe. His profession spans the golden age of British hiking from the Nineteen Sixties growth in open air experience to the recent wave of light-weight alpinism through the Seventies and 1980s.
In Up and About, the 1st quantity of his autobiography, Scott tells his tale from his start in Nottingham through the darkest days of struggle to the summit of the realm. Surviving the unplanned bivouac with out oxygen close to the summit of Everest widened the variety of what and the way he might climb sooner or later. in reality, Scott demonstrated extra climbs at the excessive mountains of the area after his ascent of Everest than earlier than. these climbs could be coated within the moment quantity of his existence and times.
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