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Presented by Stephen Venables
In 1988 Stephen Venables pioneered a new route up Everest's biggest wall and became the
first Briton to reach the top without oxygen. His first book won the Boardman-Tasker
prize for mountain literature. His book, "A Slender Thread", tells how he fell and broke
both legs whilst descending from the first ascent of Panch Chuli V. To quote The Telegraph
review by Chris Woodhead, "This is one of the best mountaineering books to have been published
for a long while. We armchair mountaineers are lucky that by some miracle our author survived."
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