Vertebrate Digital imprint: 108 books
Deep Play
Climbing the world's most dangerous routes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Winner of the 1997 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, Paul Pritchard's Deep Play is a unique, stylish and timeless commentary reflecting the pressures and rewards of climbing some of the world's hardest and most challenging rock climbs. Pritchard started climbing in Lancashire before moving...
by Jerry Moffatt
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
When Jerry Moffatt burst onto the scene as a brash 17-year-old, rock climbing had never seen anyone like him before. Fiercely ambitious, even as a boy Moffatt was focused on one thing: being the best in the world. This is the story of his meteoric rise to stardom, and how he overcame injury to stay...
There is no Map in Hell
The record-breaking run across the Lake District fells
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In 1986, the legendary fell runner Joss Naylor completed a continuous circuit of all 214 Wainwright fells in the Lake District, covering a staggering distance of over 300 miles - plus many thousands of metres of ascent - in only seven days and one hour.
Those in the know thought that this record...
Beyond Limits
A Life Through Climbing
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Beyond Limits is the autobiography of Steve McClure, one of the world's top rock climbers. From his childhood encounters with the sandstone outcrops of the North York Moors right up to his cutting-edge first ascents such as Overshadow (F9a+) at Malham and Mutation (F9a) at Raven Tor, Steve explores...
Mischief goes South
Every herring should hang by its own tail
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
‘No sea voyage can be dull for a man who has an eye for the ever-changing sea and sky, the waves, the wind and the way of a ship upon the water.’
So observes H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman in this account of two lengthy voyages in which dull intervals were few and far between.
In 1966, after...
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...
The Story of my Boyhood and Youth
An early years biography of a pioneering environmentalist
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
The Story of my Boyhood and Youth is the affecting memoir of the now internationally renowned John Muir, a Scottish-American boy subject to a most unusual upbringing, his transition into adulthood, and the path that led him to petition for the concept of protected national parks.
Born in East...
Nepal Himalaya
The most mountainous of a singularly mountainous country.
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Throughout 1949 and 1950 H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman mounted pioneering expeditions to Nepal and its Himalayan mountains, taking advantage of some of the first access to the country for Western travellers in the 20th century. Tilman and his party—including a certain Tenzing Norgay—trekked into the...
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...
No Place to Fall
Superalpinism in the High Himalaya
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
No Place to Fall is Victor Saunder's follow up to his Boardman Tasker Prize winning debut book Elusive Summits. Covering three expeditions to familiar and unfamiliar ranges in Nepal, the Karakoram and the Kumaon, each shares the exhilaration of attempting new alpine-style routes on terrifyingly committing...
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...
by Joe Tasker
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
I could never again maintain that I was caught up in this game unwillingly. I knew now what I wanted to do. Willingly would I accept the hardship and fear, the discipline and the sacrifices, if only I could be given back the chance to climb that mountain.' Joe Tasker lies, struck down by a tooth abscess,...
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...
Mountains of Tartary
Mountaineering and exploration in northern and central Asia in the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
In Undiscovered Scotland climbing and mountaineer W.H. Murray transports the reader to the wilds of Scotland, exploring the hills and climbing on ice, rock and snow. Murray, a former prisoner of war, is relishing his freedom – all the sweeter following his captivity – and we follow him on his...