This book tells the story of a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent. It is a story of tremendous courage, astonishing achievement and heart-breaking loss. Their leader was the boyish, fanatically driven Chris Bonington...
-The exploits of mountaineering's most colorful band of adventurers The Boys of Everest by Clint Willis tells the gripping story of "Bonington's Boys," a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent...