Combining an edge-of-your-seat adventure story with a fascinating, little-known piece of World War II history, one of the world's most accomplished rock climbers recalls his ascent of a mountain in the heart of one of the Earth's last uncharted pockets. 3 maps.
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Combining an edge-of-your-seat adventure story with a fascinating, little-known piece of World War II history, one of the world's most accomplished rock climbers recalls his ascent of a mountain in the heart of one of the Earth's last uncharted pockets. 3 maps.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x0x9; The binding is clean and tight with minor shelf wear. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.
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Very Good in Near Fine jacket. Book SIGNED by author on title page. Gift note one endpaper else near fine in near fine decorative blue and green map dj. Map endpapers of Southeast Asia. First Edition/First Printing. Lightner's exhilarating, often harrowing quest to ascend the mountain Baru Lawi in the face of leeches, vipers, and sweat bees, and to keep his team together in one of the earth's most treacherous uncharted pockets. Along the way, Lightner reconstructs a fascinating historical narrative that chronicles Tom Harrison's adventures on Borneo during the war (WWll) and illuminates an astonishing piece of forgotten World War II history.
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Very good, very good. 239, endpaper maps, guide to climbing terms, bibliography. The author is an internationally renowned rock climber; his 1999 ascent of Batu Lawi was the subject of a documentary.
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This is what a travel narrative should be. Part adventure story as Lightner, three friends, and a cumbersome camera crew climb a rarely climbed peak in very inner Borneo.
The flip side to this story is a biographical account of a general sent in with a small crew during WWII with no prior contact with the locals (known to collect the heads of their enemies), and stop the Japanese. Not having any idea if they will survive or be in any way successful, they jump from a plane at the base of this mountain and try to make it known that they, too, are enemies of the Japanese.