Book description
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BILL BRYSON
An outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a
40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, The Ascent of Rum Doodle has been
a cult favourite since its publication in 1956. 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.
http://www. rumdoodle. org. uk/
W. E. Bowman was a civil engineer who spent his free time
hill-walking, painting and writing (unpublished) books on the Theory of
Relativity. He was married with two children and died in 1985.
