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3 unusual facts about Eric Shipton


Andrew Croft

He also stepped down with his leader, Eric Shipton, from the 1953 Everest Expedition which summitted the mountain that year.

John Bicknell Auden

His exploration and mapping (with three other climbers) of the high Karakoram region of the Himalayas was the subject of Eric Shipton's Blank on the Map (1938).

Shipton's Arch

Though long familiar to locals, it was famously visited in 1947 by English mountaineer Eric Shipton, while he was traveling between Tashkent and Kashgar - and made known to the West in his book Mountains of Tartary.



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