Herzog was not lying when he wrote there are other Annapurnas in the lives of men. Especially in the eyes of Lachenal, Terrey, and Rebuffat. Roberts’s purpose of True Summit was not just to show how Herzog might be completely full of it, but to give Lachenal, Terrey, and Rebuffat the credit they deserve. At first…
Monthly Archives: April 2016
Book Review
The Way That We Climbed, book review
by mmd •
The history of the Irish mountaineering tradition is disclosed in absolute detail by Paddy O’Leary in The Way That We Climbed: A History of Irish Hillwalking, Climbing, and Mountaineering. O’Leary lends authority to this history as he himself was one of the pillars of the Irish climbing community from the late nineteen-fifties through the…