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After that I was infused with a pleasant sense of abandon. Our rope was not long enough for us to abseil down the red step, and the idea of climbing down it without support from above was not to be contemplated; therefore we just had to reach the summit.

Eric Shipton

... and I longed to return to the peak to explore some of the many ridges and faces which as yet had never been attempted. I now realise how lucky I was to have had this extraordinary peak virtually to myself;...

Eric Shipton

Only an easy scramble remained and we were there, on the hitherto untrodden summit of Nelion.

Eric Shipton

He is lucky who, in the full tide of life, has experienced a measure of the active environment he most desires. In these days of upheaval and violent change, when the basic values of today are the vain and shattered dreams of tomorrow, there is much to be said for a philosophy which aims at living a full life while the opportunity offers. There are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experience of a way of life that is in itself wholly satisfying. Such, after all, are the only possessions of which no fate, no cosmic catastrophe can deprive us; nothing can alter the fact if for one moment in eternity we have really lived.

Eric Shipton

Few mountains have such a superb array of ridges and faces.

Eric Shipton

Eric Shipton

Eric Shipton

Born: August 1, 1907

Died: March 28, 1977 (aged 69)

Bio: Eric Earle Shipton was a distinguished British Himalayan mountaineer.

Known for:

Blank on the map (1938)
The six mountain-travel books
That untravelled world (1969)
Land of tempest (1963)

Eric Shipton on Wikipedia

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