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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. To begin with let me say that this is not your run of the mill mountaineering story. Written in the first person, almost like a diary,and from the perspective of the author 40 years ago,it gradually sucks the reader into the narative and very soon you are almost part of the story yourself. By tackling a route not beyond the aspirations of many and from an age where most of us begin our climbing experiences,it is very easy to empathize, and in spirit be with the climbers every step of the way. Set in the Romsdal region of Norway in ,an otherwise momentous year,two 19 year old twins set off on their big adventure The Fiva Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong. They have been on training courses,climb a sound grade for the time and they have done their homework. After initial success progress begins to slow. Route finding difficulties,poor snow conditions and indifferent weather start to eat into their confidence and the slow realisation dawns that Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong isn't going to be a piece of cake. Written from the mind of Gordon Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong see the constant questioning going on within him. Anyone who has ever climbed a long route has been there and this is the beauty of the tale in that he carries you along with every step. No Noooo! Don't do that you try to warn them but of course it is in vain. Without giving the story away this is gripping stuff that lurches from one near disaster to another and eventually to a fitting climax. This book really is a thoroughly good read and it deserves to become a classic in its genre. A number of my non climbing friends have read it and are equally enthralled as it reaches out to all of us. Mar 04, chucklesthescot rated it it was ok Shelves: adventurenon-fiction. This was a typical example of a couple of over-confident and underprepared idiots Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong almost got killed on an 'adventure'. The levels of sheer stupidity in this book are mindblowing! No of course not, they decide to climb on to the summit with no food and we have to put up with the idiot moaning and complaining non stop about the agony he was in from the injury. I had no sympathy at all for him as he brought all his misery on himself. The injured one got on my nerves all through the book with his constant whining. Ooh I'm in pain, I'm hungry, I'm cold, I'm lost blah blah blah. Well if you had went properly prepared and equipped and shown a bit of common sense, Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong of the bad things would have happened. He was constantly imagining that the walls were alive and mocking him and he was holding strange conversations with them and swearing constantly at them. Seriously weird! And of course The Trolls were answering him with insults like blundering piddlers, and he was going on about English pixies, flushing toilets and trouser wetting. I mean seriously, what the hell is this idiot author talking about? It was confused and baffling crap! Add in his so called witty soundbites and jokes, and the use of derogatory words for the physically impaired and I wanted to kill him. I did NOT find it amusing to describe himself as climbing like a spastic. The author frankly comes across as rude, self obsessed and moronic. I don't recommend this rubbish to anyone. Jan 17, John Keith rated it really liked it. Great rollicking climbing adventure. For climbers of a certain vintage there is just so much nostalgia : wooden ice axes, RD Super Guide boots; abseiling with the rope cutting in to your shoulder. Also highly recommended for non- climbers. A kind of "Touching the Void" which doesn't take itself too seriously. Mar 15, David Douglas rated it really liked it. Niestety, ale nuda. No ale niestety. Aug 21, Raven rated it it was amazing. I spent most of this book alternating between sheer horrified laughter "We wanted to be off by four, but we've saved a quarter of an hour Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong not even having any breakfast And ahead of the game! I'm glad they made it out to tell the tale. Jun 10, Hayden Richards rated it it was ok. Epic tale, just more mountaineering lit that i'm just not a fan of. Sep 29, Tom Allsop rated it it was amazing. If there were 6 stars Brilliant adventure, you really feel for them, things just get worse, and worse and worse for them all the way through! Sep 29, Angie rated it it was ok. Some one else should have penned this story. The words and sentence structure were Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong clean and the story leveraged technical terms which if one was not a climber, it is difficult to follow. Oct 14, Jeremy Neal rated it really liked it. Despite the formidable appearance of the mountain, the brothers fully expect to be safely back in their tent before nightfall, and so take very few provisions. Very soon, however, they come to the realisation that they are fighting for their lives and may never see home and family again. There are a great many stories of mountain adventures and disasters available to those who have enjoyed climbing, and they usually appeal only to those who have some familiarity, at least, with the rigours, trials and Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong involved. Occasionally a story is compelling enough to warrant a wider audience, Touching the Void was one such, and Fiva is certainly another. Its accessibility is made possible by the simple but eloquent writing style, and the open way in which the author relates his feelings, which swing through the entire gamut of human emotions: anxiety, terror, hope, despair, shame, anger and gratitude. It is easy to identify with the story because the human voice is so immediate and so compelling. Immensely enjoyable, terrifying and heart-warming in equal Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong. Highly recommended. Jan 06, Jaimella Shaikh rated it really liked it. Although an account of events of more than forty years ago, Fiva is written in the first person present tense, giving it an immediacy that meant once I started it, I couldn't put it down. Stainforth perfectly captures the sense of youthful adventure of the two brothers, brimful of confidence, climbing Troll Wall. The writing is evocative - you get the sense of Stainforth choosing each word carefully whether describing the 'damp flanks of the dinosaur' they are climbing or discussing the limitatio Although an account of events of more than forty years ago, Fiva is written in the first person present tense, giving it an immediacy that meant once I started it, I couldn't put it down. The writing is evocative - you get the sense of Stainforth choosing each word carefully whether describing the 'damp flanks of the Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong they are climbing or discussing the limitations of phrases such as 'curtain of rock'.