Bernadette Mcdonald: 10 books

CLICK HERE to download the first chapter from Freedom Climbers (Provide us with a little information and we'll send your download directly to your inbox) "One of the most important mountaineering books to be written for many years." —Boardman-Tasker Prize ...

In August, 2005, Tomaz Humar was trapped on a narrow ledge at 5900 metres on the formidable Rupal Face of Nanga Parbat. He had been attempting a new route, directly up the middle of the highest mountain face in the world - solo. After six days he was out of food, almost out of fuel and frequently...

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...

Winner, Mountaineering History, 2015 Banff Mountain Book Competition From internationally renowned mountain historian Bernadette McDonald comes a highly readable, intense and exciting look at the explosion of Slovenian alpinism in the context of that country’s turbulent political history. After...

Dans les années 1970 et 1980, aux heures les plus sombres du communisme, la Pologne a vu éclore une génération d’alpinistes exceptionnels. Sans espoir d’un avenir décent et assoiffés de liberté, ces grimpeurs téméraires ont réussi, à force d’obstination et d’ingéniosité,...

Au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la Yougoslavie connut une période de calme relatif sous la férule de Tito et permettra à l'alpinisme de haut niveau de s'y développer de manière spectaculaire.Grâce au soutien de l'État, les grimpeurs yougoslaves réalisèrent d'impressionnantes ascensions...

Beginning in 1946, Elizabeth Hawley worked for Fortune magazine as a researcher. Shortly thereafter, she left both her job and the United States itself to travel the world, and thus began her lifelong attraction to the exotic and remote sovereign state of Nepal. In the years that followed, she began...

Gripping and sumptuous, this is the definitive book on the history, mystique, and science of Mount Everest, including how climate change is impacting the world's tallest mountain.  ** ** In 1963, the American Mount Everest Expedition made mountaineering history. It was the first American venture...

A book that invites you to slow down and explore the Okanagan Valley from a local’s point of view. Whether it’s spying a rare canyon wren, cycling the historic Kettle Valley Railroad across heart-stopping trestle bridges, or hiking through fields of spring flowers, travel alongside the...

Lisbeth Salander, heroine of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels, is one of the most compelling, complex characters of our time. Is she an avenging angel? A dangerous outlaw? What makes Salander tick, and why is our response to her-and to Larsson’s Millennium trilogy-so...