Mountaineering category: 669 books
Glacier Mountaineering
An Illustrated Guide to Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Glacier Mountaineering provides the knowledge and skills needed to safely and self-sufficiently navigate over glacier terrain. Hundreds of hilarious and helpful illustrations by Mike Clelland complement the clear and concise text by Andy Tyson.
Providing critical instruction for anyone planning...
The Mantis
A mountaineering novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
It is not the courage to go back up that we need. It's the courage to go down. Just to go on … ' In 1977 a British expedition led by Himalayan veteran Geoff Strickland, summiteer of K2 and Everest among others, set off to attempt the first ascent of unclimbed Puthemojar - the 'Mantis' - in the Karakoram....
The Kangchenjunga Adventure
The 1930 Expedition to the Third Highest Mountain in the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
We went to Kangchenjunga in response not to the dictates of science, but in obedience to that indefinable urge men call adventure.' In 1930, an expedition set out to climb the world's third-highest mountain, Kangchenjunga. As yet unclimbed, a number of attempts had been made on the peak, including...
Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage
The great mountaineering classic
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
In 1953 Hermann Buhl made the first ascent of Nanga Parbat - the ninth-highest mountain in the world, and the third 8,000-metre peak to be climbed, following Annapurna and Everest. It was one of the most incredible and committed climbs ever made. Continuing alone and without supplementary oxygen,...
Breaking Trail
A Climbing Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
Arlene Blum is a legendary trailblazer by any measure. Defying the climbing establishment of the 1970s, she led the first teams of women on successful ascents of Mt. McKinley and Annapurna, and was the first American woman to attempt Mt. Everest. In her long, adventurous career, she has played a leading...
Eiger Dreams
Ventures Among Men and Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant hardships and victories more brilliantly than critically acclaimed author Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest work from such magazines as Outside and Smithsonian, he explores the subject from the unique and memorable perspective of one...
by Walter Weston
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Elibron Classics. Replica of 1896 edition by John Murray, London. This book includes maps available as a free download. This is an Illustrated edition. Walter Weston (25 December 1860 – 27 March 1940), was an English clergyman, missionary, and mountaineer. This is a great travel book with a lot...
Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow
The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Without risk, say mountaineers, there would be none of the self-knowledge that comes from pushing life to its extremes. For them, perhaps, it is worth the cost. But when tragedy strikes, what happens to the people left behind? Why would anyone choose to invest in a future with a high-altitude risk-taker?...
Snow on the Equator
Mount Kenya, Kilimanjaro and the great African odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
‘To those who went to the War straight from school and survived it, the problem of what to do afterwards was peculiarly difficult.’
For H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman, the solution lay in Africa: in gold prospecting, mountaineering and a 3,000-mile bicycle ride across the continent. Tilman was...
Among Secret Beauties
A Memoir of Mountaineering in New Zealand and Himalayas
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Climbing entered the world stage in the 1950s: this was the era that produced not only Sir Edmund Hillary but a strong body of world-class New Zealand climbers. In this important and dramatic book Brian Wilkins, who was part of the adventure, shares his experiences of climbing in the Southern Alps...
The Other Side of Everest
Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
May 1996 began like most other climbing seasons on Mount Everest. The arrival of spring brought the usual pre-monsoon period, with teams of hopeful mountaineers ready to reach for the roof of the world. Among the dozens of climbers were Jon Krakauer and Anatoli Boukreev (who would both later write...
Escape from Lucania
An Epic Story of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In 1937, Mount Lucania was the highest unclimbed peak in North America. Located deep within the Saint Elias mountain range, which straddles the border of Alaska and the Yukon, and surrounded by glacial peaks, Lucania was all but inaccessible. The leader of one failed expedition deemed it "impregnable."...
by Joe Tasker
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
I could never again maintain that I was caught up in this game unwillingly. I knew now what I wanted to do. Willingly would I accept the hardship and fear, the discipline and the sacrifices, if only I could be given back the chance to climb that mountain.' Joe Tasker lies, struck down by a tooth abscess,...
by Andy Kirkpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
CLICK HERE to download the first chapter from PsychoverticalPsychovertical is the story of what happens to a nice lower-class kid with dyslexia who gains control over his circumstances by clinging to giant stone faces, thousands of feet in the air, for days at a time. In this case, Kirkpatrick...