The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration)

The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration)

Published for the first time in English, The Mountains of My Life collects the classic writings of world-famous mountaineer Walter Bonatti, and tells the real story of the 1954 controversy over the ev…

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