Mountaineering category: 669 books
by Graham Hoyland
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
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 Sandy Irvine perished in their attempt to reach the summit of Everest. Obsessed by uncovering what happened,...
The Valley of Flowers
An outstanding Himalayan climbing season
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
In his delightful Valley of Flowers, mountaineer Frank Smythe takes you on a botanical expedition to the Garhwal Himalaya. Alongside the author, scale the steep craggy mountains and bathe in crystal clear pools; breathe in the scented foothills of the Himalaya and their carpets of peonies, roses,...
Edmund Hillary - A Biography
The extraordinary life of the beekeeper who climbed Everest
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Edmund Hillary – A Biography is the story of the New Zealand beekeeper who climbed Mount Everest. A man who against expedition orders drove his tractor to the South Pole; a man honoured around the world for his pioneering climbs yet who collapsed on more than one occasion on a mountain, and a man...
Cairngorm John
A Life in Mountain Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
For over thirty years John Allen was an active member of the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team and for most of them acted as Team Leader. In 'Cairngorm John' (his call sign when in contact with search and rescue helicopters) he recalls the challenges of mountain rescue and the many changes he has both...
The Calling
A Life Rocked by Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
With heart-pounding descriptions of avalanches and treacherous ascents, Barry Blanchard chronicles his transformation from a poor Metis (half-breed) kid from the wrong side of the tracks to one of the most respected alpinists in the world. He describes early climbs attempted with nothing to guide him...
by Steve House
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
What does it take to be one of the world's best high-altitude mountain climbers? A lot of fundraising; traveling in some of the world's most dangerous countries; enduring cold bivouacs, searing lungs, and a cloudy mind when you can least afford one. It means learning the hard lessons the mountains teach.Steve...
Art of Freedom
The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Winner of the 2017 Banff Mountain Book Award for Mountain Literature (Non Fiction). Winner of the 2017 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. Winner of the National Outdoor Book Awards.
A profound and moving biography of one of the international climbing world's most respected, complicated...
Above the Clouds
The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
When Anatoli Boukreev died on the slopes of Annapurna on Christmas day, 1997, the world lost one of the greatest adventurers of our time.
In Above the Clouds, both the man and his incredible climbs on Mt. McKinley, K2, Makalu, Manaslu, and Everest-including his diary entries on the infamous...
The Call Of Ice
Climbing 8000-Meter Peaks in Winter
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
* Adventure memoir from a renowned winter climber at the top of his game * Moro reflects on some of his most significant climbs * A bestseller in Italy, this is the first English-language edition of Moro’s story Simone Moro is a celebrated Italian alpinist who specializes in winter climbing: He holds...
Aftershock
One Man's Quest and the Quake on Everest
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Jules Mountain is a survivor. The odds of surviving his type of cancer were one in five. The odds of dying on Everest are one in 60, but these are severely shortened when factoring in an avalanche triggered by the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Jules lived to tell both tales, which he does in a way that conveys...
Mischief in Greenland
Only a man in the devil of a hurry would wish to fly to his mountains
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
‘Only a man in the devil of a hurry would wish to fly to his mountains, forgoing the lingering pleasure and mounting excitement of a slow, arduous approach under his own exertions.’
H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman’s mountain travel philosophy, rooted in Africa and the Himalaya and further developed...
The Little Book of Incredibly Useful Knots
200 Practical Knots for Sailors, Climbers, Campers & Other Adventurers
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Learn to apply the right knot for any situation-a guide for the home, backpack, or boat.
The fundamental skill of tying knots is useful in countless situations, both indoors and out. The Little Book of Incredibly Useful Knots teaches you which knot to choose and exactly how to tie it, whether...
Unjustifiable Risk?
The Story of British Climbing
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
To the impartial observer Britain does not appear to have any mountains. Yet the British invented the sport of mountain climbing and for two periods in history British climbers led the world in the pursuit of this beautiful and dangerous obsession. Unjustifiable Risk is the story of the social, economic...
by Richard Nelsson
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
Throughout its history the Guardian has had unparalleled access to mountaineers and climbers, and its coverage of the sport is second to none. From Edward Whymper's conquest of the Matterhorn in 1865 through to the first ever ascent of Everest in 1953, and on to the extreme climbing (and associated apparatus)...