Outdoors category: 5873 books
The Bond
Two epic climbs in Alaska and a lifetime's connection between climbers
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Shortlisted: 2016 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
Shortlisted: 2016 Banff Mountain Book Competition
‘It's the classic of post-war mountain writing.’ – Jim Perrin
‘Rarely do I encounter a cannot-put-down book, but Simon McCartney’s aptly titled The Bond...
Is Wilderness Survival 4 Me?
A Wilderness Survival Topic, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Is Wilderness Survival 4 Me is the first addition to A Wilderness Survival Topic series of targeted, information heavy wilderness survival e-books. The inexpensive books in this series are each based around a specific subject or topic concerning wilderness survival, allowing the reader to purchase...
by Tim Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
This book will teach you how to raise one of the best fish catching baits there is, European night crawlers. You will learn how to use your table scraps and waste paper to feed and bed the worms. So you will be raising them using materials you previously would have thrown into the garbage. You will...
by James M. Tabor
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Winner of the 2007 Banff Mountain Festival Book Awards Grand Prize (The Phyllis & Don Munday Award): "A riveting account of a long-ago mountaineering disaster."—Time
In 1967, seven young men, members of a twelve-man expedition led by twenty-four-year-old Joe Wilcox, were stranded...
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...
On the Ridge Between Life and Death
A Climbing Life Reexamined
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
What compels mountain climbers to take the risks that they do? Is it the thrill in the physical accomplishment, in managing to defy the odds, or both -- and why do they continue to do what they do in the face of such great danger? In On the Ridge Between Life and Death, David Roberts confronts these...
The White Death
Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zone
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
In 1969, five young men from Montana set out to accomplish what no one had before: to scale the sheer north face of Mt. Cleveland, Glacier National Park's tallest mountain, in winter. Two days later tragedy struck: they were buried in an avalanche so deep that their bodies would not be discovered...
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."...
The Bold and Cold
A History of 25 Classic Climbs in the Canadian Rockies
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Perfect for the armchair traveller or devoted mountaineer, this book grabs the reader by the boots and takes them along on the best climbs to be found in the heart of the Canadian Rockies.
Over the past 100 years, climbers have been pushing standards in the Canadian Rockies. From long alpine...
Camp 4
Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
* Includes stories of such greats as Royal Robbins, Yvon Chouinard, Allen Steck, and Warren Harding * Captures the raucous, outrageous, innovative spirit of climbing in Yosemie during this period * Portrays the advances in equipment and style that revolutionized big-wall climbing In the 1960's, California's...
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...
To The Top of Denali
Climbing Adventures on North America’s Highest Peak
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In this revised and updated third edition, Bill Sherwonit brings to life the adventure, heroism, triumph, and tragedy of climbing North America's highest peak, Denali. He offers great insight and tales of daring adventure for both experienced climbers and armchair explorers who wonder why people climb...
Critical Hours
Search and Rescue in the White Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A misread map, a sudden storm, a forgotten headlamp—and suddenly a leisurely hike turns into a treacherous endeavor. In the past decade, inexpensive but sophisticated navigation devices and mobile phones have led to alarming levels of overconfidence on the trail. Adding to this worrisome trend,...
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...