Vertebrate Publishing: 117 books
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...
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...
by John Harding
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
In Distant Snows, mountaineer John Harding recollects his worldwide adventures spanning sixty years across Europe, Iran, East Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Arctic. He climbed many classic peaks including Mont Blanc, Mount Kenya, and Mount Cook, explored obscure ranges, and pioneered...
Call-out
A climber's tales of mountain rescue in Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Call-out is the definitive collection of tales about early mountain rescue in the Highlands of Scotland from Hamish MacInnes – Everest pioneer and arguably the most famous Scottish mountaineer of the twentieth century.
In the late 1960s, MacInnes led the Glencoe Mountain Rescue team and together...
Mountaineering in Scotland
The first 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...
Muir and More
John Muir, his life and walks
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
John Muir – a life, but also a hike. Muir is 200 miles of high-level granite and pine, but also the inventor of a clockwork self-awakening bed and the American national park system. Muir is East Lothian’s Man of the Millennium – this despite the fact that he left Scotland for ever at the age...
Days to Remember
Adventures and reflections of a mountain guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Days to Remember is a collection of tales from well-known mountain guide Rob Collister – tales of long days on the hill, travelling fast and light, often alone, and always steering well clear of the honeypots. From day trips around his local hills in Wales, to worldwide expeditions including the...
A Dream of White Horses
Recollections of a Life on the Rocks
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
'The best climbing book I've ever read.' Lito Tejada Flores High Ed Drummond is one of the great characters of the British climbing scene. An inspired climber and writer, he made first ascents across the UK and wrote some of the most unusual articles in the mountaineering world. In doing so, he won...
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...