Ranulph Fiennes THE HEADLESS VALLEY Signed Hardback
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Ranulph Fiennes THE HEADLESS VALLEY Signed Hardback
First edition, sixth impression hardback of THE HEADLESS VALLEY, by Ranulph Fiennes and published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, in 1979. Signed by Fiennes on the title page.The book is in very good condition (clean orange cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine) with only minor wear to the pictorial dust jacket, which is not price clipped (light creasing to the edges). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes is the only man alive ever to have travelled around the Earth's circumpolar surface (more people have been on the Moon!) His record-breaking expiditions include travel by riverboat, hovercraft, manhaul sledge, skidoo, Land Rover and ski. In 1984 he was described by The Guinness Book of Records as the worlds greatest living explorer.
Some of the roughest and fastest rivers in the world surge through the Rocky Mountain Trench, the vast, seldom-travelled hinterland of British Columbia between the Yukon border and the Pacific coast at Vancouver - 900 miles as the crow flies, considerably more as the rivers wind, and it was onto these turbulent that Ranulph Fiennes and his seven companions embarked in three inflatable boats.
Their first objective was remote Virginia Falls, twice the height of Niagara. Their route lay along the South Nahanni River, through the ominously named Headless Valley, the question mark of unsolved mystery still hanging over the burnt or beheaded corpses of a dozen gold prospectors and trappers, discovered there over the century.
They faced rapids, chutes, whirlpools and sink holes, hurtling at 32 knots through killer cataracts. They saw the sun eclipsed by the smoke of the worst forest fire in British Columbian history, and they nosed their frail rubber craft suicidally through splintered log jams and the semi-submerged forest of a rising lake.
Beside the rivers they met men like Indian Chief Harry Dickie and octogenarian Skook Davidson (Skookum - Indian for The Tough One), the legendary white hunter, visited ruins like Dancing Charlie's cabin and heard tales of the days when the Yukon gold rush surged across the province of British Columbia.
Ranulph Fiennes led a party consisting of himself and three men of the Royal Scots Greys, accompanied by photographer Bryn Campbell and a two-man BBC2 film unit who brought along a Yorkshire police constable as their helmsman. The author's wife, Ginnie, helped provide a supply link along the distant Alaska Highway.
This is a story as exciting and adventurous as those who have read Ice Fall in Norway and A Talent for Trouble have come to expect and relish from Captain Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes.
221 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and several maps and maps on endpapers.
ISBN: 0 340 15872 7
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