Bøker av Major H. W. Tilman

The scope of H.W. 'Bill' Tilman's When Men & Mountains Meet is broad, covering his disastrous expedition to the Assam Himalaya, a small exploratory trip into Sikkim, and his wartime heroics.

Mostly Mischief's ordinary title belies extraordinary voyages made by H.W. Tilman in both Arctic and Antarctic waters, including the first ascent of a mountain to start below sea level.

Mischief among the Penguins is H.W. Tilman's account of his voyage to the Southern Ocean island groups of Crozet and Kerguelen, on his fifty-year-old wooden pilot cutter Mischief.

H.W. Tilman's Two Mountains and a River picks up where Mount Everest 1938 left off. Tilman and various accomplices-including pioneering mountaineer and regular partner Eric Shipton-trek and climb across Nepal, China, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other areas of Asia, including Ishkashim, where the author was arrested on suspicion of being a spy ...