Mountaineering category: 669 books
Best Climbs Denver and Boulder
Over 200 Of The Best Routes In The Area
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Best Climbs Denver & Boulder covers Eldorado Canyon, the Flatirons, Boulder Canyon, Golden Cliffs, Castlewood Canyon, the north section of the South Platte, and some toproping routes at Ironclads
Best Climbs Phoenix, Arizona
The Best Sport and Trad Routes in the Area
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Best Climbs Phoenix Arizona is the next installment in the Best Climbs series from Falcon, appealing specifically to traveling climbers and local climbers who wanted to be directed toward the best local climbing. Although the Best Climbs guides feature routes of all grades, the emphasis is on moderate...
How to Slackline!
A Comprehensive Guide to Rigging and Walking Techniques for Tricklines, Longlines, and Highlines
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Originating in the climbing world, slacklining is the act of balancing along a narrow, flexible piece of webbing that has been anchored between two stable objects. How to Slackline! covers the short history of slacklining and the sport’s rapid growth since the advent of the Gibbon Trickline, which...
Bouldering Colorado
More Than 1,000 Premier Boulders Throughout The State
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
BOULDERING COLORADO: More than 1,000 Premier Boulders throughout the State
Bob Horan (Falcon)
The all-new climbers' guide with nearly twice the listings of any other
Colorado is one of the world's premier bouldering destinations, and Boulder resident Bob Horan has been climbing...
Rock Climbing Colorado
A Guide To More Than 1,800 Routes
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2019
The birthplace of American rock climbing, Colorado provides a greater variety of rock and routes than any other state—and Rock Climbing Colorado is the only guidebook available to all its major climbing areas. This updated edition includes hundreds of routes. Included are the big cliffs and faces...
Hanging On
A life inside British climbing's golden age
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The start of a love affair. 'I kicked off my shoes and prepared to climb in stocking feet, aware of an enormous sense of occasion as I laid hands on the rock and stepped up on the first rounded hold. It was not a hard climb but that was unimportant. I felt instinctively at home and at the finish experienced...
Kilimanjaro & East Africa
A Climbing and Trekking Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
* More than 50 routes, including summit walk-ups and serious technical climbs
* Includes information of travel to and from East Africa and the major trekking and climbing destinations
* Also includes the standard trekking route on Mount Meru, Kilimanjaro's nearly 15,000-foot neighboring peak, and...
by Arnold Henry Moore Lunn
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Rousseau is usually credited with the discovery that mountains are not intrinsically hideous. Long before his day, isolated men had loved the mountains, but these men were eccentrics. They founded no school; and Rousseau was certainly the first to popularise mountains and to transform the cult of...
Best Climbs Denver and Boulder
Over 200 of the Best Routes in the Area
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
With Best Climbs**,** FalconGuides introduces a new type of guidebook to some of America's most popular climbing destinations. Written for nonlocal climbers who have only a few days to climb during each visit, these guides provides visually appealing, to-the-point information that filters out the...
by Duncan T. Patten
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
The Gallatin Way, a picturesque route heading south through the canyon to the west gate of Yellowstone, boasts a history covering more than a century of exploration, homesteading and development. Early pioneers and adventurers endured a rugged and unforgiving terrain where today's travelers speed...
Des hommes, des cimes et des mots
Chroniques
Language: French
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Un recueil de chroniques publiées pendant plus de vingt ans dans les principales revues d'alpinisme.
Des hommes, des cimes et des mots… reprend les écrits de Jean-Marie Choffat publiés entre 1993 et 2015 dans les revues du Groupe de Haute Montagne, du Club Alpin Français et de la Fédération...
by John Biggar
Language: French
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Le premier topo d’alpinisme couvrant l’ensemble de la cordillère des Andes, du Venezuela à la Patagonie et la Terre de Feu Quel amateur de montagne n’a rêvé de découvrir un jour l’Amérique du Sud par ses plus belles montagnes?Destiné aux alpinistes et aux randonneurs, la collection «...
by Steph Davis, Stéphanie Bodet
Language: French
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Steph Davis, une américaine hors limite, qui aime prendre des risques, se laissant guider par son instinct et agissant en fonction de ce qu’elle ressent au plus profond d’elle-même. Pour inégalée qu’elle soit, sa place dans le monde de l’alpinisme a quelque chose de profondément humain....
Cervino
Il più nobile scoglio
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 9, 2015
1865-2015 A 150 ANNI DALLA CONQUISTA DEL CERVINO REINHOLD MESSNER FA RIVIVERE LE EMOZIONI DI UN’IMPRESA STRAORDINARIA.
Il 14 luglio 1865 il venticinquenne inglese Edward Whymper, partito da Zermatt, raggiunge per primo la vetta del Cervino-Matterhorn, il «più nobile scoglio» come scriveva...