First published in 1978, The Shining Mountain is Peter Boardman's first book. It is a very personal and honest story that is also amusing, lucidly descriptive, very exciting, and never anything but immensely readable.

This is a story of single-minded determination, strength and courage in a pursuit which owes much of its value and compulsion to the risks entailed - risks which often stimulate superlative performances.

... Changabang can only be seen by professional mountaineers . Yet Changabang shining forth in the panorama at the beginning of the book is available to bus passengers . It is known as the Shining Mountain because of the high polish of the ...

... Changabang . Lines and arrows pointed out both established routes and new possibilities on exciting and wild terrain . Scribbled in along the edge of the photo of Changabang's southwest face were Dane's emphatic thoughts : " Now does ...

... Changabang. English climber Peter Boardman said: Changabang is a miraculous peak in that it is quite unlike any of those surrounding it. Longstaff [Tom Longstaff, an English climber of the early 1900s] described it as the most superbly ...

... Changabang action within a couple of days . May 23rd . What a day ! Acclimatisation or exhaustion ? We set out at one o'clock in the morning , just carrying down jackets and a bit of food . We only had one head - torch between us , so ...

American Alpine Club. Changabang Christian Bonington , Alpine Climbing Group MART ARTIN Boysen , Dougal Haston , Balwant Sandhu , Doug Scott , Chewang Tachei and I reached the summit of Changabang ( 22,520 feet ) at four P.M. on June 4 ...

... Changabang Glacier to a safe tent site . In " normal " circumstances , we would have been able to relax and walk easily down to a Base Camp the following day . Here , though , the Nanda Devi Sanctuary below us offered lit- tle in the ...