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This month's special offer to coincide
with the anniversary, is this superb signed limited edition art print at
this fabulous price of £135 instead of the recommended price of £180.
Signed by Sir Edmund Hillary, Chris
Bonnington,
Doug Scott and Rebecca Stephens. Only 40 copies available at this
special offer price.
ORDER CODE SGL10 |
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Everest by Graeme Lothian
With Tibet in the North and Nepal on her southern
flanks, what was first called peak 'b', then peak XY, finally became Mount
Everest in 1865 after the surveyor general of India, Sir George Everest.
To the Tibetans who live in its shadow it is called 'Chomolongma', 'Mother
Goddess of the Earth'. First successfully climbed by the 1953 British
expedition, enabling Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay to reach the
summit on 29th May. The height first calculated in 1856 at 29,002 ft is now
accurately made as 29,035 ft, rising a few centimetres each year due to
the Tectonic plates of India and the Asian land-mass.
Signed limited edition of 300 prints. Image size
18" x 12". Paper size 23" x 18" including printed
remark, text and signatures. Print price £180 ($300). Artists proof price
£240 ($380)Print serial number GL10.
Signatories: Sir Edmund Hillary, Chris Bonnington,
Doug Scott and Rebecca Stephens. |
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To order a copy of this
special print, SERIAL NUMBER SGL10 telephone Cranston Fine Arts on UK (44)(0)1436
820269,
or
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Chris Bonnington's
Everest
Everest, the world's
highest mountain peak, has a magnificence, a compulsive attraction that
has lured so many climbers over the years. One such was Chris
Bonnington, Britain's best known climber. He first accepted the
challenge of Everest in the early 1970's and has since made no less than
four expeditions to its different faces.
His first, unsuccessful
attempt was on the formidable South West Face that had repulsed so many
expeditions. But in 1975 he returned to lead a successful ascent of
this face, which put the first Britons on the summit. In 1982 he
went back with a pared-down team for an attempt on Everest's North East
Ridge. Tragically, Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker were killed, and
the expedition abandoned. Following this, Bonnington vowed he was
finished with Everest, but in 1985 the lure became too strong to resist
and he joined a Norwegian expedition to tackle the South East Ridge
route. At 50 Bonnington recognized that this was probably the last
opportunity for him to achieve for himself something he had helped others
to reach - the chance to stand on the world's highest point. This
time he went to the summit. To mark the 50th anniversary of the
first ascent of Everest, he has drawn upon his four original accounts of
his expeditions and the diaries of the time to write and reflect on the
changes that have come to the mountain area he loves and the developments
that have transformed the horizons of Himalayan climbing. The result
is an absorbing first-hand account of one man's fascination with a
mountain, illustrated by some of the most remarkable photographs taken
during the expeditions, which give a real sense of the variety, beauty and
majesty of Everest. This very personal book is also an overview of
the evolution of Himalayan climbing during the last 50 years by one of its
most acclaimed exponents. |
Normal Book Price £20.
Special Offer £15.
Order Code BK9270. Illustrated
Hardback with 250 pages.
Order here: secure order form
Or telephone Cranston Fine Arts on :
UK (44)(0)1436 820269 |
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