Stephen Venables
Stephen Venables
BIOGRAPHY

Mountain climber and the first Briton to climb Everest without supplementary oxygen.

photograph: © Stephen Venables

Primary Contributions (1)
Mount Everest
Mount Everest, mountain on the crest of the Great Himalayas of southern Asia that lies on the border between Nepal and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, at 27°59′ N 86°56′ E. Reaching an elevation of 29,032 feet (8,849 meters), Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. Like other high…
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Publications (3)
First Ascent: Pioneering Mountain Climbs
First Ascent: Pioneering Mountain Climbs (September 2008)
By Stephen Venables
Thrilling first-hand accounts by those who conquered the world's great mountain peaks. \n First Ascent takes readers back to a time when there were many mountains yet to be climbed. Using first-hand accounts and archival photographs, it tells the exciting history of world mountaineering by describing in vivid detail the first ascents of the most daunting peaks. At the same time, it reveals the development of climbing styles and climbing technology. \n Covering every...
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Higher Than the Eagle Soars
Higher Than the Eagle Soars (2008)
By Stephen Venables
Higher Than the Eagle Soars distills “the intense essence” of his Everest climb, concentrating on the drama of the final climb and nightmarish descent. It is an intimate and epic account of an event that confirmed Venables as the greatest British climber of his generation.I have been wanting for some time now to revisit the Everest climb. Although the book I wrote about it [Everest: Alone at the Summit] was very successful and has appeared in four different editions, it conformed superficially...
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Meetings with Mountains
Meetings with Mountains (2006)
By Stephen Venables