The Next Horizon

The Next Horizon, the second volume in

Chris Bonington's autobiography after

I Chose to Climb, picks up his story from 1962 and relates his subsequent adventures as a mountaineer, photographer, journalist and expedition leader alongside eminent climbers including

Doug Scott and

Don Whillans, throughout an extraordinary decade of adversity, thrill and discovery.

The book opens with a journey to Chile to climb the

Central Tower of Paine.

Bonington then recounts his ascents across the globe; from the

Old Man of Hoy in Scotland, the

Eiger in Switzerland, to

Sangay in Ecuador to name but a few. He concludes in the summer of 1972 with preparations for his ambitious autumn

Everest expedition.

This revealing narrative of

Chris Bonington's experiences provides an insight into the charismatic generation of climbing personalities with whom he travelled, as well as his development into the celebrity we know today.