Hamish macinnes biography of nancy
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Palin's Posts
This weekend two people who I admired very much died. Jan Morris and Hamish MacInnes. Both were in their 90’s, both had lived quite extraordinary lives, and I was fortunate enough to spend some time with both of them. Jan Morris was the author of Venice, one of the best travel books I ever read. It made me want to go to Venice and when I went there, with Helen, in 1967, it made being there even better.
Before she underwent gender reassignment (or ‘changed sex’ as Jan always called it) she was James Morris, the reporter for the Times on the Everest expedition of 1953, and it was he who not only broke the story of Hillary and Tensing’s success, but made sure the news got through on the day of the Queen’s coronation.
The other, more personal loss was my old friend Hamish MacInnes, who could have been a member of the Everest expedition in 1953, but didn’t like big expeditions, and went instead to climb an equally dangerous mountain nearby.
Hami
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Friday October 18, 2019 Kabul (BNA) The first female Afghan to scale her country’s highest peak took to the hills of Lochaber last week. Hanifa Yousoufi, who was accompanied by her friend and colleague, Freshta Ibrahimi, is part of Ascend, an initiative that works to equip young women in Afghanistan to rise above the challenges they face in everyday life. They are also involved with the inspiring Free to Run project, which uses adventure sports to develop female leaders in regions of conflict. Ms. Yousoufi overcame child marriage, depression and the constant threat of violence by taking part in Ascend’s mountaineering project, becoming the first woman to climb the 24,580 feet to the pinnacle of Mount Noshaq in Afghanistan. Ms. Yousoufi and Ms. Ibrahimi were in the UK giving a series of talks to encourage women into the mountains, but their trip to Glencoe was for the experience of climbing in the Highlands. The women visited the Glencoe Rescue Centre and met with renowned mountainee
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Mountaineering
Alan Hankinson
Item 1379Geoffrey Winthrop Young
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Signed, 'With my very best wishes", by author to the title page, this fryst vatten a frank, sometimes surprising biography of one of the most important figures in British mountaineering circles. This book is hardly read, if at.....
Alfred Wainwright
Item 1463A Pennine Journey
London: Michael Joseph, 1986. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Sub-titled "A Story of a Long Walk in 1938" this account takes the author out of his usual Lakeland. In fine condition with like jacket, unclipped, and apparently hardly or very lightly read.
C.F. Kirkus
Item 1382Let's Go Climbing
London: Nelson, 1941. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Rare first issue kopia of the seminal mountaineering book, issued in 1941 with red price sticker of 4/6 intact. Aimed at ung people it rapidly became a