Mountaineering

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902512112Author Alan HankinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Mara BooksPublisher Mara Books

In a book that is part memoir and part history, David Roberts looks back at his personal relationship to extreme risk and tries to make sense of why so many have committed their lives to the desperate pursuit of adventure. In the wake of his diagnosis...

A competent and up-to-date instruction book of techniques needed for climbing big aid routes.About the AuthorJohn Long is an acclaimed American rock climber and author of more than forty titles, including The Trad Climber's Bible (FalconGuides). He lives...

Using unpublished diaries, Jim Perrin, the acclaimed author of The Villain and Menlove, tells the story of the greatest exploring partnership in British history. In the 1930s Tilman and the younger Shipton pioneered many routes in Africa and the...

Compiled by highly recognised medical professionals in the emergency response and trauma field, the latest edition of "Medicine for Mountaineering" features fully revised and expanded information to help mountaineers weather storms, animal attacks,...

Why We Climb is a celebration, in word and image, of those aspects of the climbing life that are most universal, meaningful, and long lasting- the strong connection to partners and nature; the physical and mental mastery required (and how to achieve it);...

The Old Man of Hoy is a 449 foot high sandstone pillar located just off Hoy, second largest of the Orkney Islands. Highly subject to the North Atlantic weather it was carved by erosion from the nearby cliffs and will eventually, perhaps soon, collapse...

This is the authoritative guide to the best climbs at the top rock climbing destinations in Western Europe, including Great Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Germany, and Norway. The route topos are accompanied by route...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913167141Author Steve BroadbentFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Oxford Alpine ClubPublisher Oxford Alpine Club

This is theengrossing story of the seasons the author spent climbing 4000m mountains inthe different regions of the Alps. It is also about the people with whom heclimbed who found time out of their day-to-day routine for this extraordinaryactivity. He...

Walking Through Shadows describes a winter walk in memory of the author's friend, Clive Dennier, a popular Inverness journalist, who died in Knoydart in March 2013 but whose body was found only some weeks later. The journey begins at Whiten Head on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907521532Author Derek A. BearhopFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Scottish Mountaineering TrustPublisher Scottish Mountaineering Trust

An illustrated history from the Scottish Mountaineering Trust of the first 100 years of mountaineering in The Cairngorms - one of the most popular and most famous climbing areas in the UK. Following on from the successful and much lauded Ben Nevis -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451233318Author Freddie WilkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint New American LibraryPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

Mountains have forever been steeped in poetry, symbolism and mystery, inspiring everyone from the explorers who wish to scale every peak to those who wish to walk in the valleys, ski the slopes or take in the crisp air and feel renewed once more. These...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorCOLBY COOMBS is a chief mountaineering guide with Alaska-Denali Guiding, Inc.ReviewsBecause of the excellent photography, this is a book that will appeal to...

Patagonia's Cerro Torre, considered by many the most beautiful peak in the world, draws the finest and most devoted technical alpinists to its climbing challenges. But controversy has swirled around this ice-capped peak since Cesare Maestri claimed first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904246305Author Tom WeirFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Steve Savage Publishers LimitedPublisher Steve Savage Publishers Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorCOLBY COOMBS is a chief mountaineering guide with Alaska-Denali Guiding, Inc.Book InformationISBN 9780898865165Author Colby CoombsFormat PaperbackPage Count...

This illustrated book is the first to introduce the reader - climbers and non-climbers alike - to the numerous mountain ranges, summits and remote inland regions of the Antarctic. This is a book intended for mountain and travel lovers interested in...

Phil Gribbon's decades of mountain exploration include over 100 first ascents in the Arctic. Filled with humour, honesty and captivating descriptions of his journeys, this book is the amazing untold story of one of the world's greatest mountaineers. Wild...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907521495Author Ken CrocketFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Scottish Mountaineering TrustPublisher Scottish Mountaineering Trust

This is the 5th English edition of the only complete guidebook to the peaks of the Andes. It covers many areas not described in any other source. Previous editions have been translated into French, Spanish, Polish and Czech. The author, John Biggar, is a...

'The definitive back story of Mount Everest' Stewart Weaver, co-author of Fallen Giants 'Craig Storti has given us the Everest book that we've needed all along' Scott Ellsworth, author of The World Beneath Their FeetThe seventy-one-year quest to...

Dave Hahn, a local of Taos, New Mexico, is a legendary figure in mountaineering. Elite members of the climbing community have likened him to the Michael Jordan, Cal Ripkin, or Michael Phelps of the climbing world. The 2015 expedition he would lead came...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907521891Author Andy NisbetFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Scottish Mountaineering TrustPublisher Scottish Mountaineering Trust

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771601092Author Bernadette McDonaldFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain BooksWeight(grams) 666g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909461185Author Major H. W. TilmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint TilmanPublisher Crescent House

This Scottish Mountaineering Club definitive climbers' guidebook details all the rock and winter climbing to be found on the beautiful and remote-feeling islands of the Inner Hebrides and Arran, off the west coast of Scotland. This is the only fully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401309848Author Michael KodasFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 134mm * 30mm

In a book that is part memoir and part history, David Roberts looks back at his personal relationship to extreme risk and tries to make sense of why so many have committed their lives to the desperate pursuit of adventure. In the wake of his diagnosis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063085534Author Michael WejchertFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906227558Author Michael PeyronFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint West Col ProductionsPublisher West Col Productions

A new rock climbing guide to the Val Di Mello describing both the sport and trad multi-pitch routes - the guide contains both photo-topos and topo-diagrams as well as a great selection of full colour action shots. Pitch lengths are given for most routes...

A fantastic new 2022 edition of a guidebook to a fantastic old destination - situated between Lake Garda and the Sarca Valley in the stunning Italian Lakes, Arco offers some of Europe's best sport climbing on the edge of the Dolomites. This edition has...

Mountain climbing is a relatively new sport in human history. Until the eighteenth century, mountains were considered inhospitable, even evil. It was the Romantics who taught us to feel a new awe and admiration for the alpine world. Since then, most of...

The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human achievement, mountaineering remains the preserve of...

The best rock climbing in the Boulder, Colorado area.Book InformationISBN 9781585921225Author Richard RossiterFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Falcon GuidesPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 20g

Through stunning b&w photographs and personal accounts, this beautiful book chronicles the Spring brothers' life work and along with it the history of mountain climbing in the Cascade and Olympic Mountains. While other photographers were recording...

First published in 1993 and hailed as a classic, Yankee Rock & Ice is now reissued in a new edition with four new chapters covering the 1990s through today to bring the book up to date. This comprehensive and entertaining history of roped rock and...