Vertebrate Digital imprint: 108 books
Adventures in the Northlands
Vertebrate Mountain Shorts
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Lightning hit the cliff high above us, sending a dumper-load of rocks thrumming like jagged cannonballs out of the clouds to explode around us. Bill took a direct hit on his helmet, which was smashed. He hung limply and silently on the rope. His face, which was streaming with blood from a gash in...
FREE Mountaineering Books: eBook Sampler
Vertebrate Publishing eBooks for the adventurous from Tilman, Terray, Tasker, Scott, MacIntyre, Fowler, Diemberger, Messner, and Heckmair
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
For this FREE mountaineering eBook collection from Vertebrate Publishing, we've picked extracts from eleven of our favourite mountaineering and exploration titles. Including works from Reinhold Messner, Edwin Drummond and Joe Tasker, these award-winning titles trace the history of mountains from the...
White Peak Mountain Biking
The Pure Trails
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
White Peak Mountain Biking - The Pure Trails ebook is the digital version of our bestselling guidebook to the southern Peak District. Clatter down tricky limestone descents, dodge roots on twisty woodland singletrack and cruise along easy cyclepaths through green fields and pretty villages. Featuring...
by Ian Sykes
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
In 1959, sixteen-year-old Ian ‘Spike’ Sykes left school and, after a short period of work at Leeds University, joined the RAF. Already a keen climber, he signed up on the promise of excitement and adventure and was posted to the remote RAF Kinloss Mountain Rescue Team in the north of Scotland....
Wild Country
The man who made Friends
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Shortlisted: 2016 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
‘[Wild Country] chronicles not just the mountains [Mark] has climbed, but the part he played in bringing to market a little piece of sporting equipment that revolutionised mountaineering and saved countless lives.’ – Sarah...
Everest the Cruel Way
Climbing Mount Everest at its hardest: the 1980 winter attempt on the infamous west ridge
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
On 30 January 1981 Joe Tasker and Ade Burgess stood at 24,000 feet on the west ridge of Mount Everest. Below them were their companions, some exhausted, some crippled by illness, all virtually incapacitated. Further progress seemed impossible. Everest the Cruel Way is Joe Tasker's story of an attempt...
The Endless Knot
K2 Mountain of Dreams and Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
'A monumental book … I defy anyone to read it and remain unmoved.' Stephen Venables, Alpine Journal Acclaimed as one of the most powerful accounts of mountain adventure and tragedy ever written, The Endless Knot is a harrowing account of the 1986 K2 disaster. A rare first-hand account from a survivor...
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,...
Ron Fawcett - Rock Athlete
The Story of a Climbing Legend
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Ron Fawcett is a natural-born climber. In 1969, while still at school in his native Yorkshire, he tied into a climbing rope for the first time and was instantly hooked. From that moment on, it seemed nothing else in his life mattered nearly as much as his next vertical fix. Ten years later, Fawcett...
Statement
The Ben Moon Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
On 14 June 1990, at Raven Tor in the Derbyshire Peak District, twenty-four-year-old Ben Moon squeezed his feet into a pair of rock shoes, tied in to his rope, chalked his fingers and pulled on to the wickedly overhanging, zebra-striped wall of limestone. Two minutes later he had made rock-climbing...
Sacred Summits
The Carstensz Pyramid, Kangchenjunga and Gauri Sankar
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Mountaintops have long been seen as sacred places, home to gods and dreams. In one climbing year Peter Boardman visited three very different sacred mountains. He began on the South Face of the Carstensz Pyramid in New Guinea. This is the highest point between the Andes and the Himalaya, and one of...
The Next Horizon
From the Eiger to the south face of Annapurna
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
The Next Horizon, the second volume in Chris Bonington's autobiography after I Chose to Climb, picks up his story from 1962 and relates his subsequent adventures as a mountaineer, photographer, journalist and expedition leader alongside eminent climbers including Doug Scott and Don Whillans, throughout...
The Everest Years
The challenge of the world's highest mountain
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Sir Chris Bonington is a household name as a result of his distinguished mountaineering career during which he has lead pioneering expeditions to the summits of some of the most stunning mountains in the world. The Everest Years shares the story of his relationship with the highest and most sought-after...
Undiscovered Scotland
The second of W.H. Murray's great classics of mountain literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
In Mountaineering in Scotland, climber and mountaineer W.H. Murray vividly describes some of the most sought-after and classic British climbs on rock and ice, including the Cuillin Ridge on Skye and Ben Nevis. The book – written in secret on toilet paper in whilst Murray was a prisoner of war –...