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I commanded the wind to stop the sleeping bags as I charged up to the ridge with screaming lungs. If the bags stopped for 60 seconds, we would have them. I crested the ridge, took one look, and kept driving. Both bags teetered inches from a large glacial lake. The slightest puff of wind would send them into the water. There was slush everywhere, and it was not clear exactly where the edge of the lake was, but I kept slogging through the slush. The Queen would not steal our beds!
Brad stopped and watched intently as I slugged through knee-deep slush to the first bag and on to the second. I had them! For the first time since leaving the tent, I stopped and looked back. Chest heaving, Brad stood at the edge of the slush. A hundred yards away, Stu, still clutching the first bag, stood on the ridge like a silent sentinel. The three of us sucked air for a gravid minute. Finally, in a voice that carried clearly, Stu said, “There’s more than one way to lose it up here, isn’t there?” We trudged pensively back to the tents clutching our windfall prizes. Our 600-yard “keystone-cops” chase was just the beginning of Killer Storm.
– Gerry Roach – from Beyond the Seven Summits - Pre Everest
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| Gerry Roach’s quest for the Seven Summits spanned four decades and went far beyond the traditional Seven Continent Summits or even the Eight Summits.
His climbs of continent summits were interspersed with many other climbs and expeditions, and he climbed through an era when it was not so easy to reach remote destinations.
This, the first book of three describing his quest, covers Denali 1963, Kosciuszko 1968, Mont Blanc 1973, the Matterhorn 1973, Kilimanjaro 1973, Aconcagua 1975, and Mount Foraker 1975. Beyond the Seven Summits – Pre Everest is available as a 6x9-inch soft cover book with a color cover and black and white interior photos. The book has 282 pages and 124 black and white photographs. |
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| Gerry Roach’s quest for the Seven Summits spanned four decades and went far beyond the traditional Seven Continent Summits or even the Eight Summits.
His climbs of continent summits were interspersed with many other climbs and expeditions, and he climbed through an era when it was not so easy to reach remote destinations.
This is the second book of three describing Gerry’s quest, and it covers four Himalayan expeditions plus his traverse of Mount Blackburn in 1977. Beyond the Seven Summits – Everest is available as a 6x9-inch soft cover book with a color cover and black and white interior photos. The book has 274 pages and 89 black and white photographs. |
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| Gerry Roach’s quest for the Seven Summits spanned four decades and went far beyond the traditional Seven Continent Summits or even the Eight Summits.
His climbs of continent summits were interspersed with many other climbs and expeditions, and he climbed through an era when it was not so easy to reach remote destinations.
This is the third book of three describing Gerry’s quest, and it describes his climbs of Bolivar in Venezuela, Elbrus in Russia, Gangkar Punsam in Bhutan,
Vinson in Antarctica, Kinabalu in Borneo and, completing his Eight Summits, Carstenz Pyramid in New Guinea. Beyond the Seven Summits – After Everest is available as a 6x9-inch soft cover book with a color cover and black and white interior photos. The book has 182 pages and 102 black and white photographs. |
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