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A Slender Thread

Stephen Venables was in illustrious mountaineering company, high on the unclimbed and sacred mountain Panch Chuli with a circle of British climbers, including Chris Bonington, when, at 1am on a dark Himalayan night, his abseil failed and he fell disastrously, somersaulting from rock to rock and landing, seriously wounded, at the end of a rope suspended above a 50-degree ice field. A Slender Thread is the story of his arduous and almost miraculous survival, and of the brilliant, committed teamwork which brought him to safety.Accounts of his mountaineering exploits have won Stephen Venables both the Boardman-Tasker Prize for mountain literature and the Banff Mountain Literature Festival Grand Award. In 1998 he pioneered a new route up Everest’™s biggest wall, at the same time becoming the first Briton to reach the summit without supplementary oxygen.

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