Vertebrate Digital imprint: 108 books
Arrowhead
An ancient Viking curse has risen
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
When a playground scrap becomes a fight to the death, and an ancient curse awakes, Jack and Emma must uncover the arrowhead’s secrets – before a terrible evil is unleashed.
Award-winning children’s author Ruth Eastham weaves twists, turns and adventures into the rollercoaster ride that...
Everest
Expedition to the Ultimate
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
'Everest by fair means - that is the human dimension, and that is what interests me … In reaching for the oxygen cylinder, a climber degrades Everest … a climber who doesn't rely on his own strength and skills, but on apparatus and drugs, deceives himself. In May 1978 Reinhold Messner and Peter...
by Peter Boardman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
'It's a preposterous plan. Still, if you do get up it, I think it'll be the hardest thing that's been done in the Himalayas.' So spoke Chris Bonington when Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker presented him with their plan to tackle the unclimbed West Wall of Changabang - the Shining Mountain - in 1976....
Conquistadors of the Useless
From the Alps to Annapurna
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
'I have given my whole life to the mountains. Born at the foot of the Alps, I have been a ski champion, a professional guide, an amateur of the greatest climbs in the Alps and a member of eight expeditions to the Andes and the Himalayas. If the word has any meaning at all, I am a mountaineer.' So...
Blank on the Map
Pioneering exploration in the Shaksgam valley and Karakoram mountains.
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
'As I studied the maps, one thing about them captured my imagination … Across this blank space was written one challenging word, "Unexplored"' In 1937 two of the twentieth century's greatest explorers set off to explore an unknown area of the Himalaya, the breath-taking Shaksgam mountains....
by Eric Shipton
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
'When a man is conscious of the urge to explore, not all the arduous journeyings, the troubles that will beset him and the lack of material gains from his investigations will stop him.' Nanda Devi is one of the most inaccessible mountains in the Himalaya. It is surrounded by a huge ring of peaks,...
The Valley of Flowers
An outstanding Himalayan climbing season
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
In his delightful Valley of Flowers, mountaineer Frank Smythe takes you on a botanical expedition to the Garhwal Himalaya. Alongside the author, scale the steep craggy mountains and bathe in crystal clear pools; breathe in the scented foothills of the Himalaya and their carpets of peonies, roses,...
Edmund Hillary - A Biography
The extraordinary life of the beekeeper who climbed Everest
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Edmund Hillary – A Biography is the story of the New Zealand beekeeper who climbed Mount Everest. A man who against expedition orders drove his tractor to the South Pole; a man honoured around the world for his pioneering climbs yet who collapsed on more than one occasion on a mountain, and a man...
by Simon Yates
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
All mountaineers develop differently. Some go higher, some try ever-steeper faces and others specialise in a particular range or region. I am increasingly drawn to remoteness - to places where few others have trod.' The Wild Within is the third book from Simon Yates, one of Britain's most accomplished...
Up and About
The Hard Road to Everest
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Winner: Himalayan Club Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature
‘A full and fascinating portrait of one of the great figures of mountaineering.’ – Michael Palin
‘As well as relaying the literal ups and downs of the biggest walls and highest mountains in the world, Scott writes...
Snow on the Equator
Mount Kenya, Kilimanjaro and the great African odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
‘To those who went to the War straight from school and survived it, the problem of what to do afterwards was peculiarly difficult.’
For H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman, the solution lay in Africa: in gold prospecting, mountaineering and a 3,000-mile bicycle ride across the continent. Tilman was...
Mischief in Greenland
Only a man in the devil of a hurry would wish to fly to his mountains
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
‘Only a man in the devil of a hurry would wish to fly to his mountains, forgoing the lingering pleasure and mounting excitement of a slow, arduous approach under his own exertions.’
H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman’s mountain travel philosophy, rooted in Africa and the Himalaya and further developed...
Triumph and Tribulation
No ship should be without Tabasco sauce
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
‘Experience is said to be the name men give to their mistakes and of the experience I gained in Spitsbergen that may well be true.’
The circumnavigation of Spitsbergen is the first of three voyages described in H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman’s fifteenth and final book, a remarkable example of...
by Andy Pollitt
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Andy Pollitt is as close to a Hollywood A-lister as the climbing world will ever get. He had the looks, and he starred in all the big roles in the 1980s and 1990s - Tremadog, Pen Trwyn, the big Gogarth climbs, Raven Tor and the cult Australian adventures. Alongside co-stars like Jerry Moffatt, John...