Vertebrate Publishing: 117 books
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The Ben Moon Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
On 14 June 1990, at Raven Tor in the Derbyshire Peak District, twenty-four-year-old Ben Moon squeezed his feet into a pair of rock shoes, tied in to his rope, chalked his fingers and pulled on to the wickedly overhanging, zebra-striped wall of limestone. Two minutes later he had made rock-climbing...
Sacred Summits
The Carstensz Pyramid, Kangchenjunga and Gauri Sankar
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Mountaintops have long been seen as sacred places, home to gods and dreams. In one climbing year Peter Boardman visited three very different sacred mountains. He began on the South Face of the Carstensz Pyramid in New Guinea. This is the highest point between the Andes and the Himalaya, and one of...
The Next Horizon
From the Eiger to the south face of Annapurna
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
The Next Horizon, the second volume in Chris Bonington's autobiography after I Chose to Climb, picks up his story from 1962 and relates his subsequent adventures as a mountaineer, photographer, journalist and expedition leader alongside eminent climbers including Doug Scott and Don Whillans, throughout...
The Everest Years
The challenge of the world's highest mountain
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Sir Chris Bonington is a household name as a result of his distinguished mountaineering career during which he has lead pioneering expeditions to the summits of some of the most stunning mountains in the world. The Everest Years shares the story of his relationship with the highest and most sought-after...
Undiscovered Scotland
The second 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 war –...
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...