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Vertical Pleasure

Early climbs in Britain, the Alps, the Andes and the Himalaya/The secret life of a taxman

by Mick Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013

Vertical Pleasure is the first set of climbing memoirs from Mick Fowler - Britain's hardest-climbing tax inspector, the 'Mountaineer's Mountaineer' and recipient of the Piolet d'Or. Vertical Pleasure begins with Fowler's early teenage years on easy British rock and Swiss 4000m peaks under the guidance...
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On Thin Ice

Alpine Climbs in the Americas, Asia and the Himalaya

by Mick Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013

On Thin Ice is Mick Fowler's second set of climbing memoirs, following Vertical Pleasure. Here, the celebrated mountaineer records his expeditions since 1990. Despite work and family commitments, he has maintained a regular series of 'big trips' to challenging objectives around the world with a sequence...
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Tides

A climber's voyage

by Nick Bullock
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018

Winner: Mountain Literature Award, Banff Mountain Book Festival 2018 Shortlisted for the 2018 Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature Nick Bullock is a climber who lives in a small green van, flitting between Llanberis, Wales, and Chamonix in the French Alps. Tides, Nick’s second...
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1001 Climbing Tips

The essential climbers' guide: from rock, ice and big-wall climbing to diet, training and mountain survival

by Andy Kirkpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016

Shortlisted: 2016 Banff Mountain Book Competition '1001 Climbing Tips had me laughing out loud in places, which I never thought possible for this genre of book. A tremendous resource that should be an essential addition to every climber's loo-library' - Ian Parnell, Climb magazine Imagine...
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The Ogre

Biography of a mountain and the dramatic story of the first ascent

by Doug Scott, CBE
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017

Some mountains are high; some mountains are hard. Few are both. On the afternoon of 13 July 1977, having become the first climbers to reach the summit of the Ogre, Doug Scott and Chris Bonington began their long descent. In the minutes that followed, any feeling of success from their achievement...
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Mostly Mischief

Including the first ascent of a mountain to start below sea level

by H.W. Tilman, Philip Temple
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...
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In Mischief's Wake

In the joy of the actors lies the sense of any action. That is the explanation, that the excuse.

by H.W. Tilman
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...
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Troll Wall

The untold story of the British first ascent of Europe's tallest rock face

by Tony Howard
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...
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High Mountains and Cold Seas

The life of H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman: soldier, mountaineer, navigator

by J.R.L. Anderson
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...
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The Riddle of Sphinx Rock

The life and times of Great Gable

by Ronald Turnbull
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...
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Always a Little Further

A classic tale of camping, hiking and climbing in Scotland in the thirties

by Alastair Borthwick
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...
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Great Himalaya Trail

1,700 Kilometres Across the Roof of the World

by Gerda Pauler
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...
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The Central Buttress of Scafell

A collection of essays selected and introduced by Graham Wilson

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...
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Unknown Pleasures

Collected writing on life, death, climbing and everything in between

by Andy Kirkpatrick
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,...
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