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Alan Hinkes on '8000 metres: Climbing the World's highest mountains'


Alan Hinkes entertains and invites you to discover the realities of climbing the world's highest mountains.

Alan Hinkes was the first Briton to climb the world's highest mountains, part of an exclusive club of only 12 people alive who have achieved this feat. In his book, 8000 metres: Climbing the World's highest mountains, Alan describes his expeditions alongside stunning photography and captures the beauty, harshness and danger of the Himalayan and Karakoram mountains.

8000 metres - Front Cover

8000 metres

Climbing the World's highest mountains

£25.00

In this book, renowned British mountaineer Alan Hinkes relates his experiences of climbing all 14 of the peaks over 8000m: the world's highest mountains. Alongside stunning photography, he describes his expeditions - many as Alpine-style ascents - capturing the beauty, harshness and danger of these mountains.

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Alan began his mountaineering career whilst at Northallerton Grammar School, North Yorkshire. He progressed to the Alps with ascents of many difficult mountains, including the notorious North Face of the Eiger, eventually graduating to the Himalaya. He is an accomplished cameraman (filming 11 documentaries), photographer, motivational speaker, environmentalist and mountain guide. Alan lives in North Yorkshire and enjoys being in the hills, rock climbing and fellwalking. You will regularly see him in the Lake District and Yorkshire tramping the fells and moors or clinging to a rock face.

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