All Elevations Unknown: An Adventure in the Heart of Borneo
Sam Lightner Jr., "All Elevations Unknown: An Adventure in the Heart of Borneo"
English | ISBN: 0767907752 | 2002 | 256 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 392 KB + 476 KB
English | ISBN: 0767907752 | 2002 | 256 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 392 KB + 476 KB
“Sam Lightner, Jr., combines two tales of adventure, one historic and the other modern-day in his page-turner . . . With its rich sense of place and history, All Elevations Unknown offers a surprisingly fresh twist to an adventure-climbing tale.” –Climbing Magazine
In the spring of 1999, armed with little more than a description from a book and a map labeled “all elevations unknown,” Sam Lightner and his German rock-climbing buddy, Volker, found themselves deep in the jungles of Borneo on a mission to climb a mountain that was only rumored to exist. What little they knew about the mountain they had learned from the memoirs of Major Tom Harrisson, a British World War II soldier who in 1945 had been assigned the near-impossible mission of parachuting blindly into the thick Borneo rainforest–where the natives had a grisly habit of cutting off heads–to try to reclaim the island for the Allies.
A captivating, utterly original combination of travel adventure memoir and historical re-creation,
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