{"product_id":"upon-that-mountain-the-first-autobiography-of-the-legendary-mountaineer-eric-shipton-9781912560080","title":"Upon That Mountain: The first autobiography of the legendary mountaineer Eric Shipton","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Eric Shipton\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Vertebrate Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Mountaineering\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUpon that Mountain\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer \u003cstrong\u003eEric Shipton\u003c\/strong\u003e. In it, he describes all his pre-war climbing, including his \u003cstrong\u003eEverest\u003c\/strong\u003e bids of the 1930s, and his second \u003cstrong\u003eKarakoram\u003c\/strong\u003e survey in 1939, when he returned to Snow Lake to complete the mapping of the ranges flanking the Hispar and Choktoi glacier systems around the \u003cstrong\u003eOgre\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrossing great swathes of the \u003cstrong\u003eHimalaya\u003c\/strong\u003e, the book, like so many of Shipton's works, is both entertaining and an important addition to the mountain literature genre. It captures an important period in mountaineering history - that just before the Second World War - an ends on an elegiac note as Shipton describes his last evening at the starkly beautiful snow lake, before he returns to a 'civilisation' about to embark on a cataclysmic war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vertebrate Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45136630218903,"sku":"9781912560080","price":1213.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781912560080.webp?v=1767909364","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/upon-that-mountain-the-first-autobiography-of-the-legendary-mountaineer-eric-shipton-9781912560080","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}