{"product_id":"boys-of-everest","title":"Boys Of Everest","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e•The exploits of mountaineering’s most colorful band of adventurers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Boys of Everest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by Clint Willis tells the gripping story of “Bonington’s Boys,” a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest’s first ascent. It is a story of tremendous courage, astonishing achievement, and heartbreaking loss. Chris Bonington’s inner circle included a dozen of mountaineering’s most legendary figures—Don Whillans, John Harlin, Dougal Haston, Doug Scott, Peter Boardman, Joe Tasker, and others—who together gave birth to a new brand of climbing. They took increasingly challenging risks on now-legendary expeditions to the world’s most fearsome peaks—and they paid an enormous price. Most of them died in the mountains, leaving behind the hardest question of all: was it worth it?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Willis's classy style turns reportage into literature . . . Bonington's Boys come across as raw, anguished souls . . . As Willis describes in his artful prose, their suffering is not just a means to an end (the summit), it is an end.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e –The New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“A gripping adventure saga . . .”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e–Publishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“A death-haunted saga of the scalers of heaven . . .”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e–Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Mr. Willis tells a story that is gripping and poignant and even appalling . . .”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e–The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mountaineers Books","offers":[{"title":"WILLIS","offer_id":42217043787911,"sku":"1060246","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0082\/5629\/0898\/files\/bb4e178e-7083-4c33-b5da-8f58ec5b1925.jpg?v=1779482509","url":"https:\/\/www.neptunemountaineering.com\/products\/boys-of-everest","provider":"Neptune Mountaineering","version":"1.0","type":"link"}