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Torrents As Yet Unknown

Daring Whitewater Ventures into the World's Great River Gorges

ISBN-13: 9781586423728

Author(s): Wickliffe W. Walker

Subjects: BGS, DNBS

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP

Publisher Imprint: Steerforth Wholesale

Publication Date: 12-09-2023

Format: Hardback

Availability: In stock

£25.99
Torrents As Yet Unknown

About the book

In 10 thrilling real-life adventure stories, pioneering whitewater explorer Wick Walker examines what lured a generation of incredibly daring pioneers into some of Earth's most wondrous yet forbidding river canyons: below Victoria Falls on the Zambez, the Great Bend of the Tsangpo in Tibet, Tiger Leaping Gorge on the Yangtze, the flanks of Mount Everest, and more. Loaded with great moments and personal stories, Wick details what these adventurers found there, and within themselves. The extraordinary characters, driven by different motives and visions, but united by their compulsion to seek the unknown and the pulse of free-flowing water, are as remarkable as the daunting geography and conditions they confront. Whitewater sport today stands side-by-side with mountaineering in participation and public attention, yet it has lagged in generating its own literature.�Torrents As Yet Unknown�will help fill that gap for readers interested in human drama played out against great natural challenges. Mountaineering history is deep and its literature rich, but whitewater adventurers approach and experience the same forbidding terrain from a different vantage, between the steep walls of their canyons and atop powerful torrents of cascading water.