The Next Horizon

The Next Horizon, the second volume in Chris Bonington’s autobiography after I
Chose to Climb, picks up his story from 1962 and relates his subsequent
adventures as a mountaineer, photographer, journalist and expedition leader
alongside eminent climbers including Doug Scott and Don Whillans, throughout
an extraordinary decade of adversity, thrill and discovery.

The book opens with a journey to Chile to climb the Central Tower of Paine.
Bonington then recounts his ascents across the globe; from the Old Man of Hoy
in Scotland, the Eiger in Switzerland, to Sangay in Ecuador to name but a few.
He concludes in the summer of 1972 with preparations for his ambitious autumn
Everest expedition.

This revealing narrative of Chris Bonington’s experiences provides an insight
into the charismatic generation of climbing personalities with whom he
travelled, as well as his development into the celebrity we know today.