World Mountaineering: The World's Great Mountains by the World's Great Mountaineers

by Audrey Salkeld, Chris Bonington (Contributor)

Profiles over fifty of the world's most challenging mountains with detailed topographical descriptions, aerial maps, and a personal account of the climb written by a renowned climber

Genres: Mountaineering, Climbing

304 pages, Hardcover

First published October 15, 1998

About the author

Audrey Salkeld was an English mountaineer, historian, and author. She reviewed and documented the contents of the archives of the early expeditions to Everest, including researching George Mallory and the events behind his death.

Her book A Portrait Of Leni Riefenstahl won the Boardman Tasker award for 1996 and she was Chair of Judges for the award in 2014.

She translated from the German books by Reinhold Messner and Kurt Diemberger and co-edited works with David Breashears and Chris Bonington. She she also contributed to several documentaries related to mountaineering.

Audrey also assisted Jeffrey Archer with his fictionalised account of Mallory and Irvine, Paths of Glory (2009), winning his praise “for her invaluable help, advice and expertise”.

In 2022 Salkeld was made an Honorary Member of the Alpine Club "in recognition of her enormous contribution to mountaineering journalism, literature and film".