I have never been able to decide whether, in mountain exploration, it is the prospect of tackling an unsolved problem, or the performance of the task itself, or the retrospective enjoyment of successful effort, which affords the greatest amount of pleasure.
Eric Earle Shipton Quotes
Showing all text quotesBirth: | 1st August, 1907 |
Death: | 28th March, 1977 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Mountaineer |
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Eric Earle Shipton was born in Ceylon. He was a British mountaineer. In 1928 he went to Kenya as a coffee grower, and first climbed Nelion, a peak of Mount Kenya in 1929. It was also in Kenya's community of Europeans that he met his future climbing partners Bill Tilman and Percy Wyn-Harris. Together with Wyn-Harris he climbed the twin peaks of Mount Kenya. Shipton and Tilman also discovered the access route to the Nanda Devi sanctuary through the Rishi Ganga gorge in 1934. He wrote several books include: Blank on the map, The six mountain-travel books, That untravelled world, More Explorations Round Nanda Devi, and Men against Everest.
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