Where are the humorous mountaineering books?

July 11, 2018 Opinion and advice andy kirkpatrick, book reviews, chris darwin, eric newby, felice benuzzi, history of mountaineering, jan morris, joe simpson, jon krakauer, kenton cool, maurice herzog, maurice isserman, mick fowler, mountain literature, seven steps from snowdon to everest, stewart weaver, the ascent of rum doodle, tom patey, travel writing, vertebrate publishing 13 Comments

Where are the humorous mountaineering books?

Mountain literature isn’t devoid of humour, but generally speaking, comedy takes second place to heroics in mountain writing. But I know there must be some laugh-out-loud funny, two or three jokes a page mountaineering books out there. If you know of any, then I’d like to hear about them.

5 of the silliest mountain firsts

September 3, 2014 Humour aconcagua, andes, ben nevis, britain, charity challenges, cho oyu, chris darwin, edmund hillary, everest, first ascents, guinness book of records, hill walking, himalayas, huascaran, lhakpa ri, nepal, norman croucher, peru, snowdon, tibet 2 Comments

5 of the silliest mountain firsts

With the news that a man climbed Snowdon pushing a brussels sprout with his nose, I thought it would be a good time to take a look at what other silly things have been done on mountains. So here are some of the world’s more improbable first ascents.