
Sentinel Range from our C-130 landing camp; 8p.m., December 8, 1966. Nick Clinch, expedition leader (face to camera), talking with Pete Schoening.
First-Hand Accounts of Historic Mountaineering Expeditions.
Sentinel Range from our C-130 landing camp; 8p.m., December 8, 1966. Nick Clinch, expedition leader (face to camera), talking with Pete Schoening.
English class en route to Everest, 1981
The following pages recount my personal impressions on mountaineering expedition in which I played a part in the period 1965-1981. On each of these expeditions I made a concerted effort to describe the activities on a daily basis. And although there are occasional gaps in my daily records, for the most part I managed to do this with remarkable consistency—remarkable in that I often was doing this with a ball-point pen in a 5”x8” lined record book, while sitting up in a tent at the end of a very demanding day. Read more...