# Flame Of Adventure

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- Authors: [Simon Yates](https://www.bookquiver.com/simon-yates)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2002-07-04

## Description

Simon Yates, author of Against the Wall , takes us back to his early years as a climber - the escapades and excitement of a young life lived on the edge and for the moment, when experience was all-important and dramatic achievements and failures came as naturally as the hair-raising risks themselves. A mountaineering travelogue of dazzling variety, The Flame of Adventure moves from the camaraderie of deprived Russian climbers in the little-known peaks in the Tien Shan to the awesome experience of the North Face of the Eiger, from a rumbustious motorbike ride across Australia with a psychotic lorry driver. We meet a remarkable gallery of climbers, from Doug Scott to Joe Simpson, and, when not exploring high mountains, we enter the bizarre world of rope access workers: mavericks balancing high above building sites on the London skyline.

## Editions

### Flame Of Adventure

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9928-386-7
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2002-07-04
- Language: en_GB