Mountaineering category: 669 books
by Joe Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
When Simon Yates cut the rope and sent his friend plummeting to an ordeal few mountaineers can have contemplated, the outcome was totally unpredictable. That Joe Simpson survived is a revelation of the power of the human spirit to overcome fear, pain and deprivation of almost unimaginable intensity....
The Next Horizon
From the Eiger to the south face of Annapurna
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
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...
by William Lowell Putnam, Andrew J. Kauffman
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
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 second-highest unclimbed summit before turning back for more supplies. Rejoining them on the descent was...
Rock Climbing Anchors, 2nd Edition
A Comprehensive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Seminal book updated by author of the acclaimed Advanced Rock Climbing
Easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions
400 new color photos demonstrate techniques
For this new edition of Rock Climbing Anchors, climber and writer Topher Donahue carefully reviewed each technique and lesson, making them even...
by Joe Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Joe Simpson has experienced a life filled with adventure but marred by death. He has endured the painful attrition of climbing friends in accidents, calling into question the perilously exhilarating activity to which he has devoted his life. Probability is inexorably closing in. The tragic loss of...
by 文字：楊世泰 攝影：戴翊庭
Language: Chinese
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: Chinese
Release Date: February 26, 2016
17項登山必知裝備解剖 ——背包、登山鞋、帳棚、睡眠系統、飲水器具、頭燈、急救包…… 10大登山技巧專業知識 ——打包、迷途辨位、機能穿搭、野營保暖、戶外飲食、體力恢復…… 6種登山前的重要觀念 ——輕量化、對自己負責、無痕山林、登山禮節與禁忌、登山的終點……...
Left for Dead
My Journey Home from Everest
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2000
With a new preface by the author • As featured in the upcoming motion picture Everest, starring Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Emily Watson, Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, and Jake Gyllenhaal
“I can tell you that some force within me rejected death at the last...
The Ledge
An Inspirational Story of Friendship and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
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. The Ledge comes perilously close and tells a ripping true story at the same time.”—The Denver...
The Push
A Climber's Search for the Path
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
**A New York Times Bestseller
A dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, the first person to free climb the Dawn Wall of Yosemite’s El Capitan
“The rarest of adventure reads: it thrills with colorful details of courage and perseverance but it enriches...
Miracle in the Andes
72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2006
In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.
Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and supporters, to an exhibition game in Chile had crashed...
Rock Climbing Technique
The Practical Guide to Movement Mastery
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
If you have ever wanted to move effortlessly and get the most from your hard-won climbing fitness, this is the guide you've been waiting for.
Getting better at rock climbing doesn’t have to be about strength, endurance, flexibility or hours spent on repetitive training. It doesn’t need...
The Will to Climb
Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
The bestselling author of The Mountain and No Shortcuts to the Top chronicles his three attempts to climb the world's tenth-highest and statistically deadliest peak while exploring the dramatic and tragic history of others who have made—or attempted—the ascent
As a high school student,...
To the Last Breath
A Memoir of Going to Extremes
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
A journey to the most extreme points on Earth and deep inside the human spirit
Before Georgetown physics professor Francis Slakey decided to climb the highest mountain on every continent and surf every ocean, he had shut himself off from other people. His lectures were mechanical; his relationships...
The Lost Explorer
Finding Mallory On Mount Everest
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1999
This is the adventure story of the year -- how Conrad Anker found the body of George Mallory on Mount Everest, casting an entirely new light on the mystery of the explorer who may have conquered Everest seventy-five years ago.
On June 8, 1924, George Leigh Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine were last...