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Fiva: an Adventure That Went Wrong Free FREE FIVA: AN ADVENTURE THAT WENT WRONG PDF Gordon Stainforth | 224 pages | 29 Mar 2012 | Golden Arrow Books | 9780957054301 | English | Derbyshire, United Kingdom UKC Gear - REVIEW: Fiva - An Adventure That Went Wrong Fueled by youthful excitement these climbing obsessed, year-old twins were massively unprepared for this adventure. They made all sorts of mistakes — route finding, trusting a vague guidebook, not packing enough food, lacking skills and experience, and using dated gear. Despite a climb that nearly took their life, they managed to survive and tell their gripping story to the world. Despite the Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong gap, Gordon does a splendid job of capturing the Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong of the situation. With luck on their side they manage to survive when a simple day trip turns into a disastrous multi-day adventure of epic proportions. Read along as Gordon paints a picture of what it likes to fight for your life while climbing and descending the Troll Wall. Fiva will make you appreciate modern climbing gear. No longer do our lives depend on ropes tied around waists, Millar mitts, and Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong space blankets. It will also encourage you to do as much research on your next route as you possibly can do. The book features multiple pictures taken during the multi-day survival climb, but you can see even more, color photos here. Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong by Gordon Stainforth is not my favorite mountaineering book ever, but it is certainly every climber and non-climber will enjoy. Pick up a hard copy or download the ebook to your Kindle today. This one will entertain you for hours. Sign in. Log into your account. Forgot your password? Privacy Policy. Password recovery. Recover your password. Get help. Fiva An Adventure That Went Wrong by Gordon Stainforth Fueled by youthful excitement these climbing obsessed, year-old twins were massively unprepared for this adventure. All rights reserved. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. OK Read more. FIVA: An Adventure That Went Wrong – Gordon Stainforth He lives in Derbyshire. Some of our best epics are those early ones when everything is fresh and new, our ambitions great, our experience thin. It had me hooked from page one and Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong me to switch off my bed-time reading light later than usual for several nights. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in a retrieval system, in any form or by any means, Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong written permission from the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews. Photos: Gordon Stainforth The Troll Wall and the Fiva Route bare of snow a week after our epic Route diagram of the Fiva Route from the interim guidebook Route description of the Fiva Route from the interim guidebook Part of the edition Norwegian map of the area that we used The old waistline karabiner that Gordon used on Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong Fiva Route The summit of Store Trolltind breaking through the cloud So when, in Maymy brother casually suggested that it would be fun to go on a 40th anniversary return trip to Romsdal, I jumped at the idea. We realised that if we got our act together we could be there in early July, in the very week of the anniversary. Thus, forty years to the very day that we had become ensnared on the climb, we found ourselves peering over the mile-high abyss to gaze down on it once more. It did not disappoint: if anything it seemed more alien than ever. A few days later, we made the long and easy ascent of Nordre Trolltind, a northern subsidiary summit of Store Trolltind, in the hope of being able to look directly at the top half of the route. We had been told that the viewpoint was stupendous, but sadly, by the time we reached the top, we were in cloud. We waited several hours when, at last, with splendid theatricality, the savage pointed summit of Store Trolltind pierced the boiling cloud hundreds of feet above Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong heads, and a few minutes later the whole of the Troll Wall, the highest vertical rockwall in Europe, emerged Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong opposite us. We just stood and gaped at its inhospitality, feeling very Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong to have had such interesting lives, which could so easily have been. For the next four months, John and I entered into an intensive period of research, piecing together all the details of the climb — from our own logbook accounts and rather differing memories of it — but helped enormously by all the new photographs we had taken. This was a great challenge, in that I had to Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong myself back into the mountaineering boots of a year-old with a very limited Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong on life and a rather exaggerated assessment of his climbing ability. All my youthful shortcomings and misconceptions had to be reproduced. For example, we had unjustly blamed the guidebook for many of our problems, when really they were the result of our total inexperience of climbing big mountain routes with typically minimal descriptions. The guidebook we used was published by the Rimmon Mountaineering Club in at the request of their sponsors to promote climbing in Norway after their successful Troll Wall climb. I should also point out that a modern Space Blanket bears little resemblance to the one we used inand is strongly recommended as a piece of emergency equipment. Finally, I must thank all those who have helped bring this book to fruition. Gordon Stainforth Belper, October The whole ancient mountain landscape is steaming, as if the rock itself were breathing and coming to life, exhaling the smoke of an age-old energy at the dawn of yet another day, in yet another year, in yet another millennium … And now the ink is coming. T-minus 10 seconds and counting. I heave my sack onto my back. John gives a little smirk. And I smile with a naughty glow of schoolboy connivance. My God, Hertfordshire seems a long way away now! Now, dwarfed by an outrageous landscape of mountain superlatives, my heart is pounding with excitement, a strange mixture of fear and anticipation. The nail-biting yet humourous account of year-old twins having a near-death experience on a mountain in Norway in Photos: Gordon Stainforth The Troll Wall and the Fiva Route bare of snow a week after our epic Route diagram of the Fiva Route from the interim guidebook Route description of the Fiva Route from the interim guidebook Part of the edition Norwegian map of the area that we used The old waistline karabiner that Gordon used on the Fiva Route The summit of Store Trolltind breaking through the cloud PREFACE I have known all my adult life that one day I would write a book about the near-death experience I had in with my twin brother on Store Trolltind, the highest mountain in the Romsdal region of Norway. We just stood and gaped at its inhospitality, feeling very fortunate to have had such interesting lives, which could so easily have been brought to an abrupt end in that grim chasm forty years before. Gordon Stainforth. Published on Feb 3, Go explore. Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong by Gordon Stainforth Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong. Return to Book Page. Preview — Fiva by Gordon Stainforth. Poor judges of their own abilities, experience, and gear, they began the climb convinced they would return to their tent in time for afternoon tea. Within hours of starting the route, things went terribly wrong. Fiva is the story that Gordon Stainforth lived to tell, 40 years later. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. More Details Other Editions 4. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Fivaplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Sep 05, Skyeofskynet marked it as gave-up-on. Jul Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong, Andy rated it it was amazing Shelves: mountaineeringclimbingadventurewilderness. Gordon Stainforth is previously known,especially amongst the climbing fraternity,for his excellent photographic books on mountains,climbing and landscapes,so it was with interest that I picked up his latest offering,a personal tale called Fiva. Within the title itself:"An adventure that went wrong" the reader is provided with immediate enticement and Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong was eager to find out how the what, where and how elements of this adventure would unravel. To begin with let Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong say that this is not your run of Gordon Stainforth is previously known,especially amongst the climbing fraternity,for his excellent photographic books on mountains,climbing and landscapes,so it was with interest that I picked up his latest offering,a personal tale called Fiva.
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