Upon That Mountain

<p><em><strong>Upon that Mountain</strong></em> is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer <strong>Eric Shipton</strong>. In it he describes all his pre-war climbing including his <strong>Everest</strong> bids of the 1930s and his second <strong>Karakoram</strong> survey in 1939 when he returned to Snow Lake to complete the mapping of the ranges flanking the Hispar and Choktoi glacier systems around the <strong>Ogre</strong>.</p><p>Crossing great swathes of the <strong>Himalaya</strong> the book like so many of Shipton’s works is both entertaining and an important addition to the mountain literature genre. It captures an important period in mountaineering history - that just before the Second World War - an ends on an elegiac note as Shipton describes his last evening at the starkly beautiful snow lake before he returns to a ‘civilisation’ about to embark on a cataclysmic war.</p><p> </p>