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The Turquoise Mountain: Brian Blessed on Everest

From the age of seven, when he read about George Mallory's 1924 ascent of Everest in his Hotspur comic, Brian Blessed dreamed of following in Mallory's footsteps. At the age of fifty-three, accompanied by a camera crew, he realized that dream. Wearing the same type of clothing as Mallory, and without oxygen, Blessed reached 26,3000 feet — 2,000 feet below the summit — and turned back only under pressure from the Chinese Government.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 256
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780747510468
  • Genres
  • travel, biography, mountaineering
  • Release date
  • 1993