{"product_id":"the-boys-of-everest-chris-bonington-and-the-tragedy-of-climbings-greatest-generation-9781680510874","title":"The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -The exploits of mountaineering's most colorful band of adventurers \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Boys of Everest\u003c\/i\u003e by Clint Willis tells the gripping story of \"Bonington's Boys,\" a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent. It is a story of tremendous courage, astonishing achievement, and heartbreaking loss. Chris Bonington's inner circle included a dozen of mountaineering's most legendary figures--Don Whillans, John Harlin, Dougal Haston, Doug Scott, Peter Boardman, Joe Tasker, and others--who together gave birth to a new brand of climbing. They took increasingly challenging risks on now-legendary expeditions to the world's most fearsome peaks--and they paid an enormous price. Most of them died in the mountains, leaving behind the hardest question of all: was it worth it? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"Willis's classy style turns reportage into literature . . . Bonington's Boys come across as raw, anguished souls . . . As Willis describes in his artful prose, their suffering is not just a means to an end (the summit), it is an end.\"\u003c\/i\u003e -The New York Times \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"A gripping adventure saga . . .\"\u003c\/i\u003e-Publishers Weekly \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"A death-haunted saga of the scalers of heaven . . .\" \u003c\/i\u003e-Kirkus Reviews \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"Mr. Willis tells a story that is gripping and poignant and even appalling . . .\" \u003c\/i\u003e-The Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mountaineers Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781680510874\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.40d","brand":"Clint Willis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43059880755381,"sku":"9781680510874","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_da8c57f6-5ccb-4265-8413-70efee32047f.jpg?v=1690300088","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-boys-of-everest-chris-bonington-and-the-tragedy-of-climbings-greatest-generation-9781680510874","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}