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The Ascent of Rum Doodle
  • ISBN: 9781784875299
  • Pages: 192
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Binding: Paperback

The Ascent of Rum Doodle

W. E. Bowman
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A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind . . .

Led by the reliably under-insightful Binder, a team of seven British men including Dr Prone (constantly ill); Jungle the route finder (constantly lost), Constant the diplomat (constantly arguing) and 3,000 Yogistani porters, set out to conquer the highest peak in the Himalayas.

An outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, The Ascent of Rum Doodle is a laugh-out-loud cult favourite.



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Mountaineers can obviously take a joke. In 1981, four years before W. E. Bowman died and a quarter of a century after the publication of his spoof mountaineering book, The Ascent of Rum Doodle, he...

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