Fiva
eBook - ePub

Fiva

An Adventure that Went Wrong

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  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Fiva

An Adventure that Went Wrong

About this book

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"A wonderful, nostalgic, gripping, classic yarn with great humour." —Joe simpson, author of Touching the Void

* A classic tale of how youthful bravado leads to serious trouble
* Winner, Mountain Literature Award, Banff Festival 2012
* Finalist, Boardman-Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, 2012

In 1969, teenage twin brothers Gordon and John Stainforth set out from their home in Hertfordshire, England, to climb the highest rock face in Europe — Norway's Troll Wall. The route they targeted is called "Fiva" (pronounced "fever"). Poor judges of their own abilities, experience, and gear, they began the climb convinced they would return to their tent in time for afternoon tea.

Within hours of starting the route, things went terribly wrong. Fiva is the story that Gordon Stainforth lived to tell, 40 years later. While it's a tale that climbers will embrace, the adventure is one that all readers of non-fiction adventure will enjoy and find absorbing. It's a story of innocence, brotherly love, youthful folly, and of danger, danger, and more danger.

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Information

Publisher
Mountaineers Books
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781594858475
Edition
0
Subtopic
Historical Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Five
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of illustrations
  7. Preface
  8. I. Sunday
  9. II. Monday
  10. III. Tuesday
  11. Afterword
  12. Some historical relics
  13. Glossary of climbing terms
  14. Further reading
  15. About the Author