UP AND ABOUT: The Hard Road to Everest

Description

At dusk on 24 September 1975, Doug Scott and Dougal Haston became the first Britons to reach the summit of Everest as lead climbers on Chris Bonington’s epic expedition to the mountain’s immense south-west face.

As darkness fell, Scott and Haston scraped a small cave in the snow 100 metres below the summit and survived the highest bivouac ever – without bottled oxygen, sleeping bags and, as it turned out, frostbite. For Doug Scott, it was the fulfilment of a fortune-teller’s prophecy given to his mother: that her eldest son would be in danger in a high place with the whole world watching. Scott and Haston returned home national heroes.

In Up and About, the first volume of his autobiography, Scott tells his story from his birth in Nottingham during the darkest days of war to the summit of the world. Surviving the unplanned bivouac without oxygen near the summit of Everest widened the range of what and how he would climb in the future. In fact, Scott established more climbs on the high mountains of the world after his ascent of Everest than before. Those climbs will be covered in the second volume of his life and times.

‘A full and fascinating portrait of one of the great figures of mountaineering.’ – Michael Palin

‘As well as relaying the literal ups and downs of the biggest walls and highest mountains in the world, Scott writes with honesty about the emotional and personal peaks and troughs of a life where family relationships are put under strain and life itself is so often at risk.’ – The Westmorland Gazette

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In the first instance please either email your contact details to [email protected] or ring the office on 01768 484842.  Don’t forget to include the details of your dedication.

The book costs £24.00 (including postage and packing) and if preferred, can be paid by cheque payable to Doug Scott and sent to: Stewart Hill Cottage, Hesket Newmarket, Wigton CA7 8HX or via direct transfer to account:

– Mr D K Scott. Cumberland Building Society
– Sort code: 16-52-21
– Account Number: 54237419/01
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