Chris Bonington

Sir Christian John Storey Bonington ( born August 6, 1934 in Hampstead, England ) is a British mountaineer. He is one of the best known and most versatile climbers of the 20th century and was beaten to the Knight 1996.

In his career, he has made 19 expeditions to the Himalayas, including four to Mount Everest. Under his leadership, succeeded first time in 1975 the ascent of the south-west wall.

Bonington has written 15 books, has frequently performed in television, and knows how to market well into the Internet through transfers. Sometimes he is praised for his humility and that he is holding up the " British climbing ethos " and dreams of climbing without technical aids and climbing hook. However, his involvement was in the death of the Australian mountaineer Anthony Tighe on Everest in 1972 to criticism occasion. Bonington had Tighe ascension granted without permission of the Nepalese government in a high- camp, although this was not a member of the expedition.

In 2005 he joined the Office of the Chancellors (roughly equivalent to a rector ) at the University of Lancaster to.

Important ascents

Bibliography

( English-language works )

  • I Chose to Climb ( Gollancz ) 1966
  • Annapurna South Face ( Cassell ) in 1970
  • The Next Horizon ( Gollancz ) 1972
  • Everest South West Face ( Hodder and Stoughton ) 1973
  • Changabang ( Heinemann ) 1974
  • Everest the Hard Way ( Hodder and Stoughton ) 1976
  • Quest for Adventure ( Hodder and Stoughton ) 1981
  • Kongur: China 's Elusive Summit ( Hodder and Stoughton ) 1982
  • Everest: The unclimbed Ridge ( with Dr Charles Clarke) ( Hodder and Stoughton ) 1983
  • The Everest Years ( Hodder and Stoughton ) 1986
  • Mountaineer - Thirty Years of Climbing on the World 's Great Peaks ( Hodder and Stoughton ) 1989
  • The Climbers ( BBC Books and Hodder and Stoughton ) 1992
  • Sea, Ice and Rock ( with Robin Knox - Johnston ) ( Hodder and Stoughton ) 1992
  • Great Climbs (edited with Audrey Salkeld ) ( Reed Illustrated Books) 1994
  • Tibet 's Secret Mountain, the Triumph of Sepu Kangri ( with Dr Charles Clarke) (Willow Field and Nicholson ) 1999
  • Boundless Horizons (Willow Field and Nicholson ) 2000
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