Upon That Mountain: The First Autobiography of the Legendary Mountaineer Eric Shipton John M. Calhoun DD and smells of our latest

and smells of our latest war with unparalleled vividness and immediacy

Heidi Julavits

LEGENDS AREN'T BORN

with insights from Kathy

Upon That Mountain: The First Autobiography of the Legendary Mountaineer Eric Shipton John M. Calhoun DD and smells of our latestUpon that Mountain is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer Eric Shipton. In it, he describes all his pre war climbing, including his Everest bids of the 1930s, and his second Karakoram survey in 1939, when he returned to Snow Lake to complete the mapping of the ranges flanking the Hispar and Choktoi glacier systems around the Ogre. Crossing great swathes of the Himalaya, the book, like so many of Shipton's works, is both