Summits: Climbing The Seven Summits Solo

Summits: Climbing the Seven Summits Solo

Robert Mads Anderson, the only man to climb solo the highest mountain on each of the seven continents successfully, tells here the story of a lifetime, accompanied by his own stunning photographs. He vividly conveys an astonishing odyssey through some of the world's most rugged and beautiful terrain, and describes the people who live in the shadows of these monuments to the power and grandeur of nature. 140 4-color photographs. Review 7 Summits Solo, (Summit, USA) by Robert Mads Anderson To Everest via Antarctica, Robert Mads Anderson Reviewed by Neil Nelson, The Evening Standard, Wellington, New Zealand Saturday, February 24, 1996Having spent the past 20 years scaling some of the world's most difficult peaks, American-born Aucklander Robert Anderson set himself a new challenge: to climb the highest peak on each of the world's seven continents.As an added challenge, he elected to climb them solo.Ultimately, he failed in his bid, with Everest getting the better of him on two separate occasions. But failure to stand on the top of the world's highest peak doesn't diminish Anderson's achievement or the highly readable accounts he has written of his adventures.As the price tags would suggest, the two books which have resulted from his seven summits project are totally different.7 Summits Solo is a large-format, lavishly produced, 160-page volume which includes dozens of superb colour photographs taken by Joe Blackburn during the expedition (Note, nearly all photos in the book are Anderson's).Anderson's account of the expedition is essentially a pr