2019 festive quiz answers

Happy new year everyone! We hope you had fun joining in our 2019 festive mountain book quiz. If you're still puzzling over a couple of tricky clues here are the answers.

SA (JT) = Savage Arena (Joe Tasker)

SS (PB) = Sacred Summits (Peter Boardman)

SBMF (GM) = Space Below My Feet (Gwen Moffat)

TAORD (WEB) = The Ascent of Rum Doodle (W.E. Bowman)

MAL (EL) = Mountaincraft and Leadership (Eric Langmuir)

TAOE (JH) = The Ascent of Hunt (John Hunt)

MOTM (RM) = Mountains of the Mind (Robert McFarlane)

TVOTF (FSS) = The Valley of the Flowers (Frank S Smythe)

TTV (JS) = Touching the Void (Joe Simpson)

COTU (LT) = Conquistadors of the Useless (Lionel Terray)

TWS (HH) = The White Spider (Heinrich Harrer)

ICTC (CB) = I Chose to Climb (Chris Bonington)

ITA (JK) = Into Thin Air (John Krakauer)

THY (JB) = The Hard Years (Joe Brown)

SATA (EW) = Scrambles Amongst the Alps (Edward Whymper)

TCH (RM) = The Crysal Horizon (Rheinhold Messner)

TLM (NS) = The Living Mountain (Nan Shephard)

NPP (HB) = Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage (Herman Buhl)

AST (SV) = A Slender Thread (Stephen Venables)

RCITELD (OGJ) = Rock Climbing in the English Lake District (Owen Glynne Jones)


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