Vertebrate Digital imprint: 108 books
Mostly Mischief
Including the first ascent of a mountain to start below sea level
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
'However many times it has been done, the act of casting off the warps and letting go one’s last hold of the shore at the start of a voyage has about it something solemn and irrevocable, like marriage, for better or for worse.’
Mostly Mischief’s ordinary title belies four more extraordinary...
In Mischief's Wake
In the joy of the actors lies the sense of any action. That is the explanation, that the excuse.
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
‘I felt like one who had first betrayed and then deserted a stricken friend; a friend with whom for the past fourteen years I had spent more time at sea than on land, and who, when not at sea, had seldom been out of my thoughts.’
The first of the three voyages described in In Mischief’s...
Troll Wall
The untold story of the British first ascent of Europe's tallest rock face
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Norway, 1965. A team of young climbers from the north of England camp at the bottom of the tallest vertical rock face in Europe - the Troll Wall. No one has dared attempt this gigantic challenge before. Some say it will never be climbed. This will be the adventure of a lifetime. Rain and snow soak...
High Mountains and Cold Seas
The life of H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman: soldier, mountaineer, navigator
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Harold William ‘Bill’ Tilman (1898 –1977) was among the greatest adventurers of his time, a pioneering mountaineer and sailor who held exploration above all else.
The son of a Liverpool sugar importer, Tilman joined the army at seventeen and was twice awarded the Military Cross for bravery...
The Riddle of Sphinx Rock
The life and times of Great Gable
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Grand to look at, grand to look from, and grand to climb' - so Great Gable was described over a hundred years ago. Probably the Lake District's best loved hill, it receives twenty thousand ascents each year and has seen the birth of two separate sorts of hill sport. In The Riddle of Sphinx Rock, award-winning...
Always a Little Further
A classic tale of camping, hiking and climbing in Scotland in the thirties
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Alastair Borthwick’s classic tale of camping, hiking and climbing tells of the freedom and fellowship enjoyed by climbers in Scotland in the 1930s. His beautiful, vivid descriptions of the landscape are only rivalled by his colourfully drawn, highly entertaining cast of characters, all of whom are...
Great Himalaya Trail
1,700 Kilometres Across the Roof of the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The Great Himalaya Trail is one of the longest and highest trails in the world. It is a trail that winds for 1,700 kilometres through Nepal — across the 'roof of the world', over ice-covered passes, crossing high-mountain deserts and through some of the most remote areas on earth. This path is perhaps...
The Central Buttress of Scafell
A collection of essays selected and introduced by Graham Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Few climbs are awarded the honour of being reduced to their initials. CB, the Central Buttress of Scafell, considered for years to be the hardest climb in the British Isles, is one of them. 'Have any of you ever noticed a bayonet-shaped crack descending from the skyline about midway between Moss Ghyll...
Unknown Pleasures
Collected writing on life, death, climbing and everything in between
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
‘The idea of owning anything except the experience is hubris.’
Unknown Pleasures is a collection of works by the climber and award-winning author Andy Kirkpatrick. Obsessed with climbing and addicted to writing, Kirkpatrick is a master storyteller. Covering subjects as diverse as climbing,...
by Sarah Mussi
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Ellie Morgan wants a boy who's all hers. Just for once, it would be nice to meet someone that Sheila (the cow) hadn't got her claws in to. A remote farmhouse on Mount Snowdon is hardly the ideal setting for meeting anyone - unless, of course, you count her best friend George or creepy Darren (which...
Adventures in Mind
A personal obsession with the mountains
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
The last descent and I can't let myself think it's in the bag. Anything could happen, take it easy, take no risks. Just get to the finish and win. 'The challenge and anticipation that pushes me to try harder. The obsessive urge to achieve. It's not all about winning. Why do I do it?' Growing up in...
Upon That Mountain
The first autobiography of the legendary mountaineer Eric Shipton
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Upon that Mountain is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer Eric Shipton. In it, he describes all his pre-war climbing, including his Everest bids of the 1930s, and his second Karakoram survey in 1939, when he returned to Snow Lake to complete the mapping of the ranges flanking the...
Climbing Down
Long distance walks in the Scottish, Welsh and English hills in manageable chunks
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Graham Wilson's Climbing Down, selected as a Travel Book of the Week in The Guardian, features long distance walks in the Scottish, Welsh and English hills — but in manageable chunks. Wilson makes an entertaining companion; once he was fit enough for the Bob Graham Round, now he's the victim of...
Everest 1951
The Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition 1951
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest. They climbed from the south, from Nepal, via the Khumbu Glacier - a route first pioneered in 1951 by a reconnaissance expedition led by Eric Shipton. Everest 1951 is the account of this expedition. It was the first to...