Expedition Diaries - In The Throne Room of the Mountain God - Paperback

by Matthew Gallagher (Editor), Ranulph Fiennes (Author), M. S. Lewis (Author)

Expedition Diaries is the journals and memoirs of a mountaineer. A mountaineer who had a dream, and then made that dream a reality. Through avalanche, storm, death, trials and tears he fought on to live his dream. After twenty years in the mountains, from the Welsh peaks of Snowdonia to the greater ranges of the Himalaya, Karakorum and the wilderness of Antarctica, this is a collection of his expedition diaries - as they were written. They include a first ascent of Workman Peak in Pakistan, The first Welsh ascent of Mount Vinson in Antarctica, the guiding of premiership football team manager Tony Pulis and the legend that is ex-England goalkeeper David Seaman during their attempt on Kilimanjaro in the worst conditions on the mountain for five years. Foreword by Sir Ranulph Fiennes OBE.

Author Biography

The award winning author, Mark, is a confident and proficient expeditioner and qualified mountain instructor. For the last twenty plus years he has worked in and around the extreme expedition arena. In 1997 he was the first Welsh man and the youngest person in the World to summit Mt Vinson in Antarctica. He attempted the seven summits and has climbed on six of the eight thousand metre peaks. Mark is passionate about mountaineering and being in the big mountains.