# The Villain

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- Authors: [Jim Perrin](https://www.bookquiver.com/jim-perrin)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2006-04-06

## Description

Don Whillans has an iconic significance for generations of climbers. His epoch-making first ascent of Annapurna's South Face, achieved with Dougal Haston in 1970, remains one of the most impressive climbs ever made - but behind this and all his other formidable achievements lies a tough, recalcitrant reality: the character of the man himself. Whillans carried within himself a sense of personal invincibility, forceful, direct and uncompromising. It gave him sporting superstar status - the flawed heroism of a Best, a McEnroe, an Ali. In his own circle, his image was the working-class hero on the rock-face, laconic and bellicose, ready to go to war with the elements or with any human who crossed his path on a bad day.

## Editions

### The Villain

- Publisher: arrow
- ISBN: 978-00-9941-672-2
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2006-04-06
- Language: en_GB