There is something in common between the arts of sailing and of climbing. Each is intimately concerned with elemental things, which from time to time demand from men who practice those arts whatever self-reliance, prudence and endurance they have. Born in 1898, Major Harold William Bill Tilman was one of the last great explorers of the 20th century, a renowned mountaineer and sailor who climbed in the Alps, Africa and the Himalaya and who circumnavigated Africa, cro... >Voir plus