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Here at last is the thrilling memoir of the legendary mountaineer Bradford Washburn, one of the last surviving explorers and adventurers of the twentieth century. Drawing from decades of memories, j……続きを見る

The account of one of the deadliest and most mysterious tragedies in mountaineering history-the 2008 K2 disaster. One Mountain Thousand Summits reveals the true story of the K2 tragedy that claimed ……続きを見る

The Mountain That Was "God" Being a Little Book about the Great Peak Which the Indians Named "Tacoma" but Which Is Officially Called "Rainier" This edition features • i……続きを見る

In 1930 a sixteen-year-old boy left England to become one of the last of the ‘gentlemen adventurers’ – the fur traders of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In the Arctic he found adventure, love and loss as……続きを見る

Begining with the 1921 attempt on the summit of Everest through to the disasters of the 1990s, this work features 30 white-knuckle accounts of climbing endeavour on the world's highest mountain, wit……続きを見る

Für den österreichischen Alpinismus bedeutete die Jahreswende 2011/2012 sowohl einen Hoch- als auch einen Tiefpunkt. Hochpunkt war Ende August 2011, als die Öberösterreicherin Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner……続きを見る

Colorado has 53 14ers, more than 600 13ers, and hundreds of other peaks that can be reached without special equipment or expertise. Numerous guides dryly catalog these trails, but Best Summit Hikes ……続きを見る

Guidebook to 50 ski touring and snowshoeing routes in the Dolomites. The routes, which carry an Alpine (and when appropriate, a Volo/Toponeige) grading, range from 5km to 18km, taking between 2 and ……続きを見る

Not everyone summits mountains and not everyone is capable of capturing their experience with stunning photographs. Daniel and Kazuya have done just that! Join them in the Toyama Prefecture section ……続きを見る

Not everyone summits mountains and not everyone can capture the experience with stunning photographs. Daniel and Kazuya have done just that! Join them on the boundary between Nagano and Yamanashi Pr……続きを見る

Not everyone summits mountains and not everyone can capture the experience with stunning photographs. Daniel and Kazuya have done just that! Join them in the Hakuba section of Japan's Northern Alps ……続きを見る

•The exploits of mountaineering’s most colorful band of adventurers The Boys of Everest by Clint Willis tells the gripping story of “Bonington’s Boys,” a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineeri……続きを見る

A climbing medicine and wilderness first aid guidebook from a team of proven experts Climbing and mountaineering attracts millions of people around the world each year, but produces a unique set of ……続きを見る

An Impetuous College Undergraduate ... A Nation at War ... A New Unit Seeking "Experienced Mountaineers ... Men of Good Physique ... Who Have Lived and Worked in the Mountains ... "  Three let……続きを見る

What goes through your mind when you’re dropped alone in the middle of the Alaska Range, the cold and darkness surrounding you without another human being for miles? Arctic explorer Lonnie Dupre had……続きを見る

In April 2012 Mark Horrell travelled to Tibet hoping to become, if not the first person to climb Mount Everest, at least the first Karl Pilkington lookalike to do so. He joined a mountaineering expe……続きを見る

A guidebook to 41 scrambles in the Peak District National Park. Covering the Dark Peak and Roaches areas, the routes are graded 1–3 and range from those that are suitable for adventurous walkers to ……続きを見る

This late 2018 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. For the past 17 years, United States Special Forces (USSF) has been decisively engaged i……続きを見る

Malgré le drame de l'an dernier, quatre amies décident de continuer à pratiquer l'escalade et partent en Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Quatre copines férues d'escalade. Quatre amies qui partent ensemble chaqu……続きを見る

An awestruck love letter to one of the most spectacular places on earth, from the author of international bestseller The Eight Mountains. Paolo Cognetti marked his 40th birthday with a journey he ha……続きを見る

On the 100th anniversary of the first attempt to climb Mt Everest, Margret Grebowicz shows how and why climbing and mountaineering are still important today. In 1923, a reporter asked George Mallory……続きを見る

The inspiration behind The Discovery Channels "I Shouldn't be Alive " - "Trapped under a Boulder " episode. A gripping tale of profound courage, strength of spirit and sheer tenacity in the face of ……続きを見る

Krzysztof Wielicki, insieme a Jerzy Kukuczka, Wojtek Kurtyka e Wanda Rutkiewicz, è il caposcuola di una stagione leggendaria iniziata sul finire degli anni Settanta, che ha visto infrangersi veri ta……続きを見る

The story of the 1939 American K2 expedition is well known among mountaineers: world-class German-born climber Fritz Wiessner and Pasang Dawa Lama came within 800 feet of attaining the world's secon……続きを見る

"The most adventurous figure in the history of the 'Oregon country' is Colonel Joe Meek, Virginian, 'squaw man' and first marshal of Oregon. He was a frontiersman of the highest type." The Pacific M……続きを見る

Few climbs are awarded the honour of being reduced to their initials. CB, the Central Buttress of Scafell, considered for years to be the hardest climb in the British Isles, is one of them. 'Have an……続きを見る

In 1988, Stephen Venables became the first Briton to summit Everest without oxygen. Everest: Alone at the Summit is the story of his thrilling journey. Near-impossible challenges are conquered with ……続きを見る

Over 9,000 feet up on the top of Mount Roraima is a twenty-five mile square plateau, at the point where Guyana's border meets Venezuela and Brazil. In 1973, Scottish mountaineering legend Hamish Mac……続きを見る

Presented as one hundred fifteen narrative-style poems, some of which are rhyming and others are in prose or blank verse, Reflections on Mountaineering, A Journey Through Life as Experienced in the ……続きを見る

'The best climbing book I've ever read.' Lito Tejada Flores High Ed Drummond is one of the great characters of the British climbing scene. An inspired climber and writer, he made first ascents acros……続きを見る