By Gordon Stainforth
ISBN-10: 1594858462
ISBN-13: 9781594858468
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“A magnificent, nostalgic, gripping, vintage yarn with nice humour.” —Joe simpson, writer of Touching the Void
* A vintage story of the way younger bravado ends up in severe trouble
* Winner, Mountain Literature Award, Banff competition 2012
* Finalist, Boardman-Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, 2012
In 1969, teenage dual brothers Gordon and John Stainforth set out from their domestic in Hertfordshire, England, to climb the top rock face in Europe — Norway’s Troll Wall. The course they detailed is named “Fiva” (pronounced “fever”). negative judges in their personal skills, adventure, and equipment, they begun the climb confident they might go back to their tent in time for afternoon tea.
Within hours of beginning the path, issues went extraordinarily improper. Fiva is the tale that Gordon Stainforth lived to inform, forty years later. whereas it’s a story that climbers will embody, the journey is person who all readers of non-fiction event will get pleasure from and locate soaking up. It’s a narrative of innocence, concord, younger folly, and of hazard, probability, and extra danger.
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