Author: DICKINSON, LEO
Title: Filming the Impossible
Description: Nationwide. 1982. (ISBN: 0224020153). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from minor mark to top edge) with near Fine dustjacket . 256 pages. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs. In 1970, when ew Britons had ever scaled the Eiger's North Face, Leo Dickinson persuaded Yorkshire Television to finance his expedition to film an ascent of the most dangerous mountain wall in Europe. His film, accomplished under appalling conditions, was to be the first of a dozen shown during the years since in over twenty countries, where they collectedmany awards. This book describes his astonishing journeys to remote parts of the earth, whether hanging from a rope stretched across a chasm in order to film Olympic-class canoeists beneath, or filming Messner ascending Everest without oxygen. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY BOOK OF 0.95 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST D4C. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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