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Ice climbing continues to grow more popular every year. Advances in equipment and technique have helped make the sport accessible to a wide variety of outdoor enthusiasts. How to Ice Climb! is the m……続きを見る

In May 1996 a number of expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route. Each group contained world class climbers and relative novices, some of whom had paid tens of thous……続きを見る

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The authors bring extreme climbing to life. . . . Perhaps no author can rationalize why some choose to risk their lives . . . for the thrill of conquering a mountain. Th……続きを見る

Includes expanded and updated information on technical improvements and safety New sidebars provide extra lessons on techniques presented Larger format with more photographs Glacier Travel and Cre……続きを見る

Set in the aftermath of a harrowing plane crash, this is the true story of one young boy’s fight for survival in nature’s most treacherous conditions. Eleven-year-old Norman Ollestad was a gifted sk……続きを見る

Part of our value-added professional format series, the Mountain Operations Field Manual describes the tactics, techniques, and procedures that the United States (US) Army uses to fight in mountaino……続きを見る

Written by the Army Mountain Warfare School (AMWS), this workbook provides crucial information about mountain warfare training. The untrained mountain Soldier has two foes - the enemy and the mounta……続きを見る

Finding Jim describes Susan Oakey-Baker’s struggle to confront the realities of life after the death of her husband, renowned mountain guide Jim Haberl, the first Canadian to summit the most difficu……続きを見る

K2 is the world's second highest mountain, but its savage reputation is second to none. The loss of Alison Hargreaves and six companions in 1995 was a grim echo of the multiple deaths in 1986 and of……続きを見る

Between them Andy Kirkpatrick and David Coley have racked up many, many pitches on multi pitch rock; tackling alpine and big wall climbs all over the world. Unlike most instructional books, this one……続きを見る

Are you looking for a journey that will take you through Greatest Biathlon Olympic Athletes to Ever Compete: Top 100, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether ……続きを見る

The history of mountaineering has long served as a metaphor for civilization triumphant. Once upon a time, the Alps were an inaccessible habitat of specters and dragons, until heroic menーpioneers o……続きを見る

* Shows you how to get started with sport climbing, or push your skills further than you thought they could go * Sport climbing is a fun, accessible aspect of climbing that many people can participa……続きを見る

La vie de l’un des grands aventuriers de notre temps, le « miraculé de l’Everest », disparu au sommet et réapparu plusieurs semaines après. « Ceci est le récit de ma vie, la vie passionnée d’un homm……続きを見る

A large-format guidebook describing 50 walks and scrambles across Scotland. From the Southern Uplands to the Outer Hebrides, a mix of classic routes and unsung gems are detailed in this guide for ex……続きを見る

An expert mountaineer cracks Everest’s most intriguing mystery – did Mallory and Irvine reach the summit before they perished on its slopes? On the 6th June 1924, mountaineers George Mallory and San……続きを見る

Former Navy air rescue swimmer Brian Dickinson was roughly 1,000 feet from the summit of Mount Everestーalso known as “the death zone”ーwhen his Sherpa became ill and had to turn back, leaving Brian……続きを見る

Maurice Wilson, à l’aube de ses 35 ans, entreprend de se rendre en monoplan monomoteur à cockpit ouvert sur les flancs de l’Everest pour planter le premier drapeau à son sommet Ce projet semble fou ……続きを見る

Il suffit d’un déclic, d’un choix fait à un moment clef de sa vie pour la rendre complètement extraordinaire ! Steph Davis, une américaine hors limite, qui aime prendre des risques, se laissant guid……続きを見る

Une biographie romancée, mais surtout, une magnifique aventure en pleine montagne ! Lors d'un voyage dans l'ouest américain, Marie va rendre visite à Jon, son ancien compagnon de montagne et amant. ……続きを見る

K2 is the second highest mountain in the world, at 8611 metres only a couple of hundred metres lower than Everest. It is one of the most unrelenting and testing of the worlds 8000-metre peaks. Jim C……続きを見る

Larger than the state of Rhode Island and laced by a thousand miles of trails, the White Mountains have long been a hiker's paradise. Here is a first-person account of the world that begins where th……続きを見る

The basis for the new documentary film, Mountain: A Breathtaking Voyage into the Extreme. Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high l……続きを見る

“Gripping, intense. . . . Buried in the Sky will satisfy anyone who loved [Into Thin Air].”ーKate Tuttle, Boston Globe When Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at h……続きを見る

Trois générations d’une famille, quatre destins de guides ou champions de ski, mus depuis un siècle par une même passion inaltérable pour le ski et l’alpinisme. Anselme Baud , le légendaire pionnie……続きを見る

This thoroughly revised and updated new edition of Better Bouldering presents all the techniques and tricks gleaned from the thirty-year bouldering career of John Sherman, America's most noted and n……続きを見る

Les plus beaux souvenirs d'une vie d'alpiniste... Dans ces quelques pages intimistes, Anselme Baud nous relate de savoureux souvenirs de péripéties vécues en montagne, épisodes d’une riche vie d’alp……続きを見る

A classic in the genre of mountain literatureーwith a new preface by the author Rising more than 20,000 feet into the Alaskan sky is Denali, the tallest mountain in North America. In this collection……続きを見る

• 40 classic traditional multi-pitch rock climbs from 5.4 to 5.8 • Climbs organized by area: Lumpy Ridge, Eldorado Canyon, Boulder Canyon, the Flatirons, Garden of the Gods, and the South Platte • C……続きを見る

* The author reveals the demons that drove her to extreme physical accomplishments at the cost of great suffering story of adventure and personal growth * Pasaban is one of the best high-altitude cl……続きを見る