Vertebrate Publishing: 117 books
The Fight for Everest 1924
Mallory, Irvine and the quest for Everest
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
In 1924 Mount Everest remained unclimbed. Two British expeditions had already tackled what was known to be the highest mountain on Earth. The first, in 1921, found a route to the base. The second, in 1922, attempted the summit, reaching a record height of 27,320 feet before retreating. Two years later,...
Alps Mountain Biking
From Aosta to Zermatt: The Best Singletrack, Enduro and Downhill Trails in the Alps
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Alps Mountain Biking is a guide to the western Alps. It reveals epic rocky descents, high-altitude blasts and hidden Alpine singletrack, all set against a backdrop of snowy peaks, pine forests and clear blue skies. This is some of the greatest singletrack, enduro and downhill riding the mountains...
by Frank Smythe
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
"Why do you climb?" The mountaineer has no answer to this question. The best things in the world cannot adequately be expressed in speech or print; they are part of the soul.' In Climbs and Ski Runs, Frank Smythe takes the reader on Alpine ski trips and Dolomite adventures, up first ascents...
John Gill: Master of Rock
The life of a bouldering legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
John Gill: Master of Rock is a captivating look into the life, achievements and ethos of boulderer John Gill. This new edition of the classic title is complete with photographs, personal impressions of Gill from climbers such as Yvon Chouinard, and an enlightening interview with Gill himself.
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Camp Six
The 1933 Everest Expedition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Frank Smythe's Camp Six is one of the greatest Everest accounts ever written. It is the story of the 1933 Everest Expedition, in which Smythe, climbing alone after his partner Eric Shipton had turned back ill, reached a point perhaps higher than any man had done before - and some twenty years before...
No Easy Way
The challenging life of the climbing taxman
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
‘If we were guaranteed success in everything we tried then life would be pretty boring.’
Mainstream news reports about climbing are dominated by action from the world’s highest mountains, more often than not focusing on tragedy and controversy. Far removed from this high-altitude circus,...
After the Crash
And other stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
David Pickford's After the Crash and other stories is a collection of nine short stories that will take you from The Door to the River to the wildest reaches of the Sahara in The Jahannam's Lair; on board Twenty Red Twenty, the first manned mission to Mars, and into the labyrinth of Cain and Abel's...
Hanging On
A life inside British climbing's golden age
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The start of a love affair. 'I kicked off my shoes and prepared to climb in stocking feet, aware of an enormous sense of occasion as I laid hands on the rock and stepped up on the first rounded hold. It was not a hard climb but that was unimportant. I felt instinctively at home and at the finish experienced...
The Kangchenjunga Adventure
The 1930 Expedition to the Third Highest Mountain in the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
We went to Kangchenjunga in response not to the dictates of science, but in obedience to that indefinable urge men call adventure.' In 1930, an expedition set out to climb the world's third-highest mountain, Kangchenjunga. As yet unclimbed, a number of attempts had been made on the peak, including...
Climbing Ramabang
One Irish climber's explorations in the Himalaya and his overland trip home
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Gerry Galligan's first book is a bold and expansive travel diary recounting his assembling of a small team of Irish mountaineers and their attempts on unclimbed mountains and unexplored valleys in the remote corners of the Indian Himalaya. Getting there, the team see the hardships of the sub-continent,...
Travels in Alaska
Three immersions into Alaskan wilderness and culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
‘To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.’
First published in 1915, Travels in Alaska is the last book that Muir wrote, detailing the adventures and experiences that were arguably most dear to him. Alaska’s picturesque forests, grand mountains,...
My Life
Eiger North Face, Grandes Jorasses and other Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
In 1938 Anderl Heckmair made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, a monumental climb that cemented his place in history. In My Life he tells the story of how he turned from a fragile child wrapped, 'quite literally, in cotton bindings,' into one of the most important mountaineers in the...
The Storms
Adventure and tragedy on Everest
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In August 1979 twenty-seven-year-old Mike Trueman set sail from the south-west coast of Wales, en route to Cornwall. The young army helicopter pilot was helping to move his friend's yacht from Northern Ireland to the south coast of England. But as they sailed out into the Irish Sea, the sky turned...
Lure of the Mountains
The life of Bentley Beetham, 1924 Everest Expedition Mountaineer
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Lure of the Mountains is the first published biography of accomplished photographer, ornithologist, teacher and 1924 Everest expedition member Bentley Beetham (1886-1963). Written by the late Michael D. Lowes, a pupil of Beetham's at Barnard Castle School in County Durham, and with a foreword by Graham...