Also by Mark Horrell:
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- Virgin Conquests: First Ascents in Ladakh
- Tigers and Tamangs: How not to do a Nepalese adventure travel reconnaissance
- The Tomb of Chewang Nima: An expedition to climb Baruntse in Eastern Nepal
- Snowshoes and Shipton: Climbing Muztag Ata in the Chinese Pamirs
- Islands in the Snow: Climbing Nepal's trekking peaks
- Yakking with the Thunder Dragon: Walking Bhutan's epic Snowman Trek
- Thieves, Liars and Mountaineers: On the 8000 metre peak circus in Pakistan's Karakoram mountains
- The Ascent of Manaslu: Climbing the world's eighth highest mountain
- Volcanic Activity: Climbing Mexico's volcanoes
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The Wrath of the Turquoise Goddess: Battling blizzards on Cho Oyu, the world's sixth highest mountain
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Published: Dec. 09, 2012
Words: 29,801 (approximate)
Language: British English
ISBN: 9781301802159
Short description
In the Autumn of 2010, Mark Horrell set off to Tibet with a dozen other hopeful mountaineers to climb 8201m Cho Oyu, the sixth highest mountain in the world, whose name translates as the Turquoise Goddess in Tibetan. It was an extraordinary season as the mountain was battered by blizzards for weeks and many climbers were caught in avalanches. This is his diary of the expedition.Extended description
In the Autumn of 2010, Mark Horrell set off to Tibet with a dozen other hopeful mountaineers, including an Olympic rowing champion and a former Welsh rugby international, to climb 8201m Cho Oyu, the sixth highest mountain in the world, whose name translates as the Turquoise Goddess in Tibetan.It was to be an extraordinary season on the mountain believed to be the simplest and safest 8000 metre peak in the world. Battered by blizzards for weeks, many climbers were caught in avalanches, and the mountain was abandoned by nearly all the teams at Base Camp before a single summit had been attained, but perhaps even more remarkably no one had died.
The eventual tally for the season was just two successful summits and one death. This is Mark Horrell's diary from the expedition, and tells the story of how events unfolded on what was to prove one of the least successful climbing seasons Cho Oyu has seen. It includes many of the author's photographs.
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