The Next Horizon : From the Eiger to the south face of Annapurna.

__**The Next Horizon,**__ the second volume in **Chris Bonington's** autobiography after __**I Chose to Climb**__, picks up his story from 1962 and relates his subsequent adventures as a mountaineer, photographer, journalist and expedition leader alongside eminent climbers including **Doug Scott** and **Don Whillans**, throughout an extraordinary decade of adversity, thrill and discovery. This revealing narrative of **Chris Bonington's** experiences provides an insight into the charismatic generation of climbing personalities with whom he travelled, as well as his development into the celebrity we know today. The Next Horizon, the second volume in Chris Bonington's autobiography after I Chose to Climb, picks up his story from 1962 and relates his subsequent adventures as a mountaineer, photographer, journalist and expedition leader alongside eminent climbers including Doug Scott and Don Whillans, throughout an extraordinary decade of adversity, thrill and discovery. The book opens with a journey to Chile to climb the Central Tower of Paine. Bonington then recounts his ascents across the globe; from the Old Man of Hoy in Scotland, the Eiger in Switzerland, to Sangay in Ecuador to name but a few. He concludes in the summer of 1972 with preparations for his ambitious autumn Everest expedition. This revealing narrative of Chris Bonington's experiences provides an insight into the charismatic generation of climbing personalities with whom he travelled, as well as his development into the celebrity we know today. Opening with a journey to Chile to climb the Central Tower of Paine in 1962, this second volume of Chris Bonington's autobiography introduces the reader to a charismatic generation of climbing personalities, and ends in the summer of 1972 with preparations for the autumn Everest expedition. The Next Horizon, the second volume in Chris Bonington's autobiography, relates his adventures from 1962 as a mountaineer, journalist and expedition leader throughout a decade of discovery.