Mountaineering category: 669 books
Introduction to Rock and Mountain Climbing
To the Top and Down… the Step-by-Step Fundamentals in Learning How
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
For those who would like to climb mountains, and for those who merely like to contemplate the possibility, Ruth and John Mendenhall have written as entertaining and completely instructive a book as have ever been tucked into a rucksack.
Since ascending a peak inevitably beings at the bottom, the Mendenhalls...
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....
by Joe Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer’s harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the summer of 1985, two young, headstrong mountaineers set off to conquer an unclimbed route. They had triumphantly reached the summit, when...
Dead Lucky
Life After Death on Mount Everest
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Lincoln Hall's breathtaking account of surviving a night in Everest's "death zone."
Lincoln Hall likes to say that on the evening of May 25, 2006, he died on Everest. Indeed, Hall attempted to climb the mountain during a deadly season in which eleven people perished. And he was, in...
by Bernadette McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
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...
by Simon Yates
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2009
Simon Yates, author of Against the Wall, takes us back to his early years as a climber - the escapades and excitement of a young life lived on the edge and for the moment, when experience was all-important and dramatic achievements and failures came as naturally as the hair-raising risks themselves.
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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...
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...
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
“Gripping, intense. . . . Buried in the Sky will satisfy anyone who loved [Into Thin Air].”—Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe
When Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. Indeed, for as long as Westerners have been climbing the Himalaya, Sherpas have...
Dark Summit
The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
The inside story of the deadly 2006 climbing season on Everest
On May 15, 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit. A week later, Lincoln Hall, a seasoned Australian climber,...
Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak
The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Mountaineer Maurice Herzog gives a gripping firsthand account of one of the most daring climbing expeditions in history
Annapurna I is the name given to the 8,100-meter mountain that ranks among the most forbidding in the Himalayan chain. Dangerous not just for its extreme height but for a...
Halfway to Heaven
My White-knuckled--and Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Fat, forty-four, father of three sons, and facing a vasectomy, Mark Obmascik would never have guessed that his next move would be up a 14,000-foot mountain. But when his twelve-year-old son gets bitten by the climbing bug at summer camp, Obmascik can't resist the opportunity for some high-altitude...
The Mountain
My Time on Everest
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
In national bestseller The Mountain, world-renowned climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs and cowriter David Roberts paint a vivid portrait of obsession, dedication, and human achievement in a true love letter to the world’s highest peak.
In The Mountain, veteran world-class climber...
Training for the New Alpinism
A Manual for the Climber as Athlete
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
In Training for the New Alpinism, Steve House, world-class climber and Patagonia ambassador, and Scott Johnston, coach of U.S. National Champions and World Cup Nordic Skiers, translate training theory into practice to allow you to coach yourself to any mountaineering goal. Applying training practices...