Author
The award for Best Book — Mountain Literature at the 2007 Banff Mountain Book Festival went to Venables for his Higher Than the Eagle Soars: A Path to Everest.
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“The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own—that is, for his age—so as to be able even then to take pleasure in himself.”
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