Himalayan Playground
Adventures on the Roof of the World 1942-72
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2008
In Pinn (Verlag)
978-1-906476-00-7 (ISBN)
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A unique insight from the 2004 Boardman-Tasker award winner into a time when mountains were not subjected to the all-out onslaught of tourist climbers ticking off the peaks as they went, leaving a landscape littered with waste. Evokes a nostalgic past to true aesthetic mountaineering.
During the twilight years of the British Raj Trevor Braham spent much of his boyhood in India where, in the mid-1930s, he attended a boarding school in Darjeeling for four years. Dwelling within sight of the magnificent spectacle of Kangchenjunga and its satellite peaks exerted a strong influence upon him, arousing later ambitions. After early trips to Sikkim he joined the Himalayan Club marking a threshold of half-a-lifetime of adventures and activities in the mountain ranges spread across the northern regions of the Indian sub-continent, from Sikkim in the South-east to Chitral in the North-west in an environment very different from the present day. His halcyon years extended from 1942 to 1972, part of the earlier period corresponding with the Himalayan Golden Age in the 1960A 's when an international frenzy developed for climbing the world's highest mountains. In between he enjoyed summer climbing in the Swiss Alps, joining the Alpine Club and the Swiss Alpine Club.As one of the Himalayan Club's earliest members, he was invited to give the opening address at its 80th anniversary celebrations held in Mumbai in February 2008.
Trevor Braham's final work on his life and times in the Himalayas is an insight into the Golden Age of Himalayan exploration when he spent all of his free time until he married on numerous expeditions into the world's greatest mountain range. This is a telling insight into a time when mountains were not subjected to the all-out onslaught of tourist climbers ticking off the peaks as they went, leaving a landscape littered with waste. These are the recollections of a bygone era in mountaineering, never to return.
During the twilight years of the British Raj Trevor Braham spent much of his boyhood in India where, in the mid-1930s, he attended a boarding school in Darjeeling for four years. Dwelling within sight of the magnificent spectacle of Kangchenjunga and its satellite peaks exerted a strong influence upon him, arousing later ambitions. After early trips to Sikkim he joined the Himalayan Club marking a threshold of half-a-lifetime of adventures and activities in the mountain ranges spread across the northern regions of the Indian sub-continent, from Sikkim in the South-east to Chitral in the North-west in an environment very different from the present day. His halcyon years extended from 1942 to 1972, part of the earlier period corresponding with the Himalayan Golden Age in the 1960A 's when an international frenzy developed for climbing the world's highest mountains. In between he enjoyed summer climbing in the Swiss Alps, joining the Alpine Club and the Swiss Alpine Club.As one of the Himalayan Club's earliest members, he was invited to give the opening address at its 80th anniversary celebrations held in Mumbai in February 2008.
Trevor Braham's final work on his life and times in the Himalayas is an insight into the Golden Age of Himalayan exploration when he spent all of his free time until he married on numerous expeditions into the world's greatest mountain range. This is a telling insight into a time when mountains were not subjected to the all-out onslaught of tourist climbers ticking off the peaks as they went, leaving a landscape littered with waste. These are the recollections of a bygone era in mountaineering, never to return.
Since his first life-changing Himalayan journey 50 years ago, Trevor Braham has been a prominent figure in the world of Himalayan and Alpine mountaineering. He wrote Himalayan Odyssey and is a former editor of the Himalayan Journal and Chronique Himalayenne. His When The Alps Cast Their Spell won the 2004 Boardman-Tasker award.
Acknowledgements Foreword by Doug Scott Map of Himalayas Introduction Map of Northern Garwhal 1GARWHAL 1947 Map of Nothern Sikkim 2SIKKIM 1949 Map of Kulu-Spiti Watershed 3SPITI 1955 (incl 8-page b/w plate section) 4KARAKORAM 1958 5SWAT & KOHISTAN 1962 6TRIBAL COUNTRY 1961/67/1970 (incl 16-page col plate section) Map of Swat, Kohistan and Kaghan 7KAGHAN 1965/67/72 Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 10.10.2008 |
|---|---|
| Illustrationen | Robert Burns, Rhoda Burns |
| Zusatzinfo | black and white plates, colour plates, maps |
| Verlagsort | Glasgow |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien |
| ISBN-10 | 1-906476-00-4 / 1906476004 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-906476-00-7 / 9781906476007 |
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