Ed Douglas has been climbing for over thirty-five years and has been a writer and editor for the last thirty. He launched the magazine
On The Edge while at university in Manchester, and has published eight books about mountains and their people. His books include biographies of
Tenzing Norgay, rock-climbing visionary
Ben Moon and the late British mountaineer
Alison Hargreaves. His ghostwritten autobiography of
Ron Fawcett,
Rock Athlete, won the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature in 2010. Three of the essays in
The Magician’s Glass were either shortlisted for or won at the Banff Mountain Book Festival in Canada. Douglas’s journalistic work most often appears in
The Observer and
The Guardian. He is the current editor of the
Alpine Journal and lives in Sheffield with his wife Kate. They have two grown-up children.
L’immensité de l’Himalaya fascine depuis longtemps les hommes en quête d’une élévation, littérale ou spirituelle : pèlerins, marchands, soldats ou aventuriers cherchant à se mesurer aux montagnes les plus spectaculaires.Loin d’être sauvage et stérile, la chaîne himalayenne est depuis...
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