Shining Mountain Boardman Peter
Shining Mountain Boardman Peter 'It's a preposterous plan. Bonington's was one of the more positive responses; most felt the climb impossibly hard, especially for a two-man, lightweight expedition.…
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Shining Mountain Boardman Peter
'It's a preposterous plan. Bonington's was one of the more positive responses; most felt the climb impossibly hard, especially for a two-man, lightweight expedition. Still, if you do get up it, it'll be the hardest thing that's been done in the Himalayas.'So spoke Chris Bonington when Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker presented him with their plan to tackle the unclimbed West Wall of Changabang - the Shining Mountain - in 1976.
He had photographed the sheer, shining, white granite sweep of Changabang's West Wall on a previous expedition and asked Pete to return with him This was, after all, perhaps the most fearsome and technically challenging granite wall in the Garhwal Himalaya and an ascent - particularly one in a lightweight style - would be more significant than anything done on Everest at the time.The idea had been Joe Tasker's.