Mountaineering category: 669 books
Climber's Paradise
Making Canada's Mountain Parks, 1906-1974
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The mountain parks are for all Canadians for all time and their value cannot be measured in terms of how many access roads, motels, souvenir shops and golf courses we've provided. -Bob Jordan, 1971 The Alpine Club of Canada imagined the Rockies and neighbouring ranges to the west and the north as...
by Eric Shipton
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Here, from the distinguished mountaineer Eric Shipton, is the dramatic story of the Golden Age of Mountaineering. Mountain Conquests brings vividly to life the great climbing successes that were scored first in the Alps and then around the world - from the Matterhorn and Mount Blanc to Mount Everest, Denali, and K2.
The Seventymile Kid
The Lost Legacy of Harry Karstens and the First Ascent of Mount McKinley
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
CLICK HERE to download the first two chapters from The Seventymile Kid
* A true and complete account of the first successful ascent of Mount McKinley—setting the record straight
* The summer of 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the McKinley's first ascent
* Features archival photographs, including...
When Men & Mountains Meet
Like the desire for drink or drugs, the craving for mountains is not easily overcome
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
‘We had climbed a mountain and crossed a pass; been wet, cold, hungry, frightened, and withal happy. One more Himalayan season was over. It was time to begin thinking of the next. “Strenuousness is the immortal path, sloth is the way of death.”’
First published in 1946, the scope of...
by Ken Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
An astonishing true story of mountaineering survival
On 5 January 2003, former Special Forces soldier Ken Jones was caught in a devastating avalanche as he climbed in the frozen wilderness of Romania's Transylvanian Alps. Flung from a cliff, he regained consciousness to find himself shrouded...
The Everest Politics Show
Sorrow and strife on the world’s highest mountain
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
In April 2014 Mark Horrell went on a mountaineering expedition to Nepal, hoping to climb Lhotse, the fourth-highest mountain in the world, which shares a base camp and climbing route with Mount Everest.
He dreamed of following in the footsteps of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, by climbing...
A Life on the Edge
Memoirs of Everest and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
"My father's greatest living heroes were John Glenn and Jim Whittaker—a physical giant with a huge heart, a decent soul, and inspirational courage. We can all be grateful that Whittaker has finally put his extraordinary life on paper. Whittaker's story is a riveting saga of high adventure by one...
Lou Whittaker
Memoirs of a Mountain Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 1995
* The only biography of this Northwest's climbing hero * Features 15 color photos * Remarkable stories of climbs on K2, Kangchenjunga, and Denali * Features stories about Jim Wickwire, Pete Schoening, John Roskelley, Joe Kennedy, Jr., Peter Whittaker, and Willi Unsoeld Lou Whittaker has been one of...
Challenge of Rainier
A Record of the Explorations and Ascents, Triumphs and Tragedies on
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
A classic history about an iconic mountain by one of the nation s great mountaineersOriginally published in 1971, THE CHALLENGE OF RAINIER is a classic in mountaineering reference and literature, long considered the definitive work on the climbing history of Mount Rainier. As a chronicler of significant...
Bradford Washburn, An Extraordinary Life
The Autobiography of a Mountaineering Icon
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Here at last is the thrilling memoir of the legendary mountaineer Bradford Washburn, one of the last surviving explorers and adventurers of the twentieth century. Drawing from decades of memories, journals, and an exquisite photographic collection, Washburn completes the self-portrait of a man drawn...
Elusive Summits
Four expeditions in the Karakoram
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Elusive Summits is the award winning first book by British mountaineer Victor Saunders, winner of the 1990 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. Documenting climbs in the 1980s, at a time when the greatest mountains in the greatest ranges had been climbed by numerous routes, collected like...
The Chomolungma Diaries
Climbing Mount Everest with a commercial expedition
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
In April 2012 Mark Horrell travelled to Tibet hoping to become, if not the first person to climb Mount Everest, at least the first Karl Pilkington lookalike to do so.
He joined a mountaineering expedition which included an Australian sexagenarian, two Brits whose idea of hydration meant a box...
Cold Wars
Climbing the fine line between risk and reality
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
I was aware that I was cold - beyond cold. I was a lump of meat left for too long in a freezer, a body trapped beneath the ice, sinking down into the dark. 'I was freezing to death.' In this brilliant sequel to his award-winning debut "Psychovertical", mountaineering stand-up Andy Kirkpatrick...
Thieves, Liars and Mountaineers
On the 8,000m peak circus in Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2011
This is the tale of Mark Horrell’s not-so-nearly ascent of Gasherbrum in Pakistan, of how one man’s boredom and frustration was conquered by a gutsy combination of exhaustion, cowardice, and sheer mountaineering incompetence.
He made not one, not two, but three intrepid assaults, some of...