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The complete life story of arguably Britain’s greatest mountaineer, whose career has spanned six decades of climbing peaks, across all continents and still being able to summit The Old Man of Hoy aged eighty years of age in 2015.


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'He is the icon of British climbing' * Daily Mirror *
'These well chronicled chapters of Chris’s life read like the pages of an epic saga with all the battle and victory, triumph and tragedy, love and loss one would expect of a mythical hero' -- Leo Houlding
'Bonington was a fabulous and very creative climber. He brought Britain back to being a leading nation of climbers' -- Reinhold Messner

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    A Paperback / softback by Sir Chris Bonington

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      Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
      Publication Date: 31/05/2018
      ISBN13: 9781471157578, 978-1471157578
      ISBN10: 1471157571
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      Biography Memoirs Sport Climbing and mountaineering

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The complete life story of arguably Britain’s greatest mountaineer, whose career has spanned six decades of climbing peaks, across all continents and still being able to summit The Old Man of Hoy aged eighty years of age in 2015.


      Trade Review
      'He is the icon of British climbing' * Daily Mirror *
      'These well chronicled chapters of Chris’s life read like the pages of an epic saga with all the battle and victory, triumph and tragedy, love and loss one would expect of a mythical hero' -- Leo Houlding
      'Bonington was a fabulous and very creative climber. He brought Britain back to being a leading nation of climbers' -- Reinhold Messner

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