Mountaineering category: 669 books
Two Mountains and a River
I made a resolve not to begin climbing until assured by a plague of flies that summer had really come
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
H.W. Tilman’s Two Mountains and a River picks up where Mount Everest 1938 left off. In this instalment of adventures, Tilman and two Swiss mountaineers set off for the Gilgit region of the Himalaya with the formidable objective of an attempt on the giant Rakaposhi (25,550 feet). However, this project...
by Mick Harney
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Are you passionate about walking and climbing, perhaps in areas such as Scotland and the English Lake District? Or do you simply have a curiosity about those activities and those places? Points of Contact is the book for you.Knitting geology, history, and meteorology into an illuminating exploration...
by Jim Curran
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
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 earlier disasters which have become part of climbing legend. K2 has always attracted the greatest names...
Fatal Mountaineer
The High-Altitude Life and Death of Willi Unsoeld, American Himalayan Legend
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Willi Unsoeld became an international hero during the Kennedy years, when he emerged as probably the greatest American climber of the Himalayan golden age. Displaying the sort of vigor that President Kennedy so admired, Unsoeld became the most visible hero of an ascent of Everest's previously-unclimbed...
by Jon E. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
No one sees clearer than an individual whose life is hanging by the finger tips on the edge of an abyss.
Probing the furthest reaches of human daring and endurance, here are 28 of the great first-hand accounts of extreme mountaineering, from legendary names.
Featuring:
·Heinrich...
by Bernadette McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Winner, Mountaineering History, 2015 Banff Mountain Book Competition
From internationally renowned mountain historian Bernadette McDonald comes a highly readable, intense and exciting look at the explosion of Slovenian alpinism in the context of that country’s turbulent political history.
After...
Summits and Secrets
The Kurt Diemberger autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
‘A book grows rather like a snow crystal. One doesn’t write it from start to finish but, in greater or less degree, all at the same time … that is why my book is not in chronological order; for everything is of the present, held in the moment when thought captures it.’
Kurt Diemberger’s...
Over the Hills and Far Away
A life in the mountains: From Snowdonia to the Himalaya
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
‘The whole trail has been orchestrated to make it possible for each one of us, in different ways, to be “touched” by wilderness’
Over the Hills and Far Away is a collection of essays that demonstrates Rob Collister’s thirty-year experience in mountaineering. From solo climbing in...
Freedom Climbers
The Golden Age of Polish Climbing
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
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"One of the most important mountaineering books to be written for many years." —Boardman-Tasker Prize
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by Simon Yates
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Simon Yates is 'the one who cut the rope' in Joe Simpson's award-winning account of their epic struggle for survival in Touching the Void. Afterwards, Yates continued mountaineering on the hardest routes. Perhaps the most testing of all was one of the world's largest vertical rockfaces, the 4, 000-ft...
by Alun Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Rucksack Guide - Rock Climbing is your essential handbook when climbing. It offers concise guidance and support for any
situation you might find yourself in, including:
technical skills: tips and reminders on the key climbing techniques
rope work: what knots to use in certain situations and how...
Free Spirit
A Climber's Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
* A mountaineering classic re-released in the Legends and Lore series * Two new chapters In Free Spirit Reinhold Messner describes the forces and events that have shaped him as a climber as famous for his discipline as for his innovative spirit. Messner evolved his philosophy of the single free-climbing...
Dougal Haston: The Philosophy Of Risk
The Philosophy Of Risk
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The untimely death of Dougal Haston in 1977 robbed climbing of one of its most charismatic, controversial and enigmatic figures. A man of extremes, who managed to combine a rock star's lifestyle with a career at the cutting edge of world mountaineering, Haston remains a cult figure whose deeds have inspired...
by Thomas F. Hornbein
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
"Not only did Hornbein play a crucial role in one of the most extraordinary accomplishments in the history of mountaineering, his account of the feat is one of the finest things ever written about this peculiar, hazardous, and uncommonly engaging pursuit." —Jon Krakauer * Special anniversary edition...