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Informationen zum Autor ELIZABETH CLINCH and NICHOLAS CLINCH are an exceptional husband and wife team, traveling to Chinese Central Asia, and visiting the places the Littledales traveled. Nicholas Clinch is a mountaineering bibliophile, and the former executive director of the Sierra Club Foundation and past president of the American Alpine Club. He organized and led Himalayan expeditions and in 1958 led the first successful expedition to Gasherbrum I, America's only first ascent of an 8000m peak. He also led teams making the first ascents of Masherbrum in 1960, and Mount Vinson in Antarctica in 1967. Elizabeth Clinch worked as a researcher for Encyclopedia Britannica and for National Geographic in Washington D.C. The Clinches live in Palo Alto, California. Klappentext On August 4! 1895! at a 19!000 foot pass on the north side of Goring La in Tibet! only 48 miles from Lhasa! a 43-year-old Englishman! his 55-year-old wife! and a fox terrier confronted over 150 Tibetans armed with primitive matchlocks. The Englishman was St. George Littledale. His wife! Teresa! had shared in all of his adventures. In the 19th century! Teresa and George Littledale were known as the greatest English explorers of their day! journeying further into the hidden lands of Asia than any Western explorer had previously achieved. Yet! because they never published their own account of their journeys! for more than a century their story has remained largely forgotten. Now! the authors! having discovered the Littledales' diaries and letters! have for the first time pieced together their remarkable! adventurous! and courageous lives.
