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The Wrath of the Turquoise Goddess: Battling blizzards on Cho Oyu, the world's sixth highest mountain (Footsteps on the Mountain travel diaries Book 13)

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The Wrath of the Turquoise Goddess: Battling blizzards on Cho Oyu, the world's sixth highest mountain (Footsteps on the Mountain travel diaries Book 13)

In the Autumn of 2010, Mark Horrell set off to Tibet with a dozen other hopeful mountaineers, including an Olympic rowing champion and a former Welsh rugby international, to climb 8201m Cho Oyu, the sixth highest mountain in the world, whose name translates as the Turquoise Goddess in Tibetan.

It was to be an extraordinary season on the mountain believed to be the simplest and safest 8000 metre peak in the world. Battered by blizzards for weeks, many climbers were caught in avalanches, and the mountain was abandoned by nearly all the teams at Base Camp before a single summit had been attained, but perhaps even more remarkably no one had died.

The eventual tally for the season was just two successful summits and one death. This is Mark Horrell's diary from the expedition, and tells the story of how events unfolded on what was to prove one of the least successful climbing seasons Cho Oyu has seen. It includes many of the author's photographs.

Country	USA
Author	Mark Horrell
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Mountain Footsteps Press
Manufacturer	Mountain Footsteps Press
NumberOfPages	114
PublicationDate	2011-11-26
Publisher	Mountain Footsteps Press
ReleaseDate	2011-11-26
Studio	Mountain Footsteps Press

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