Frasi di Eric Shipton

Eric Earle Shipton è stato un alpinista ed esploratore britannico. Infaticabile viaggiatore, si distinse per l'esplorazione e l'ascensione di numerose montagne dell'Himalaya, dell'Africa e della Terra del Fuoco. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Agosto 1907 – 28. Marzo 1977
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Eric Shipton: Frasi in inglese

“Few mountains have such a superb array of ridges and faces.”

[Eric Shipton, w:Eric Shipton, Illustrations by Biro, That Untravelled World, 1969, 2nd edition, 1977, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 0-340-21609-3]

“…and I longed to return to the peak to explore some of the many ridges and faces which as yet had never been attempted. I now realise how lucky I was to have had this extraordinary peak virtually to myself;…”

[Eric Shipton, w:Eric Shipton, Illustrations by Biro, That Untravelled World, 1969, 2nd edition, 1977, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 0-340-21609-3]

“After that I was infused with a pleasant sense of abandon. Our rope was not long enough for us to abseil down the red step, and the idea of climbing down it without support from above was not to be contemplated; therefore we just had to reach the summit.”

[Eric Shipton, w:Eric Shipton, Illustrations by Biro, That Untravelled World, 1969, 2nd edition, 1977, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 0-340-21609-3]
Shipton was climbing with the novice Bill Tillman on the first ascent of the difficult West Ridge Route up Batian.

“Only an easy scramble remained and we were there, on the hitherto untrodden summit of Nelion.”

[Eric Shipton, w:Eric Shipton, Illustrations by Biro, That Untravelled World, 1969, 2nd edition, 1977, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 0-340-21609-3]
Eric Shipton made the first ascent of Nelion and the second ascent of Batian in 1929.

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