Hermann Buhl: Climbing Without Compromise

Hermann Buhl: Climbing Without Compromise

Messner and Horst Höfler's biography of the Austrian climber who soloed the first ascent of Nanga Parbat in 1953 — one of the most audacious acts in mountaineering history. Buhl climbed for 41 hours straight, hallucinating near the summit. He died four years later on Chogolisa.
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Publisher Mountaineer Books
Published 2000
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