Mountaineering

Bradford Angier's How to Stay Alive in the Woods is a practical, readable-and potentially indispensable-manual for anyone venturing into the great outdoors.Detailed illustrations and expanded instructions, newly commissioned for this deluxe edition,...

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A deeply moving story of the beauty and brutality of life, and death, on the world's most unpredictable and perilous mountain. Sitting just lower than Everest at 8,611 metres above sea level on the China-Pakistan border, the Savage Mountain claims the...

A Path of Shadows is writer and mountaineer John Porter's first poetry collection. Exploring the natural world, family ties and physical science as well his climbing life, A Path of Shadows is a reflection of Porter's sharp and broad intellect, and...

A Passion for Mountains presents a compilation of stories written by members of the British Mountain Guides. Documenting both personal climbing and mountaineering adventures as well as those shared with clients, the stories in this book represent the...

More than 75,000 copies sold of previous editions New chapter on risk management Includes new photographs and updated illustrations The Avalanche Handbook needs no introduction. For this new fourth edition of the course-adopted and...

* A collection of vivid, intimate essays and prose poetry on the universal themes of life, love, friendship, personal empowerment, and more, told through a career in climbing * 40 percent of these pieces debut here for the first time * Davis has been...

The third book in the "Rockfax France" series covers the extensive and fertile climbing area west of the author's previous guide to Haute Provence. The areas covered largely surround the beautiful Parc National des Cevennes, but also includes crags that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312291372Author Anatoli BoukreevFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 215mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909979154Author Cathy O'DowdFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Crux PublishingPublisher Crux PublishingWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

'a guidebook that might just save your life' HERALD SUNBob Cooper's incredible bushcraft skills have been developed through more than 30 years of experience in Australia's harsh outback. He has picked up tools of survival from the experiences of living...

In early 1978, an extraordinary new invention for rock climbers was featured on the BBC television science show Tomorrow's World. It was called the 'Friend', and it not only made the sport safer, it helped push the limits of the possible. The company...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680511406Author Topher DonahueFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Mountaineers BooksPublisher Mountaineers BooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 213mm...

The mountains of Ireland are wild and untrodden. There is a powerful and magnetic quality to Ireland's high places, a mix of mountains and sea that creates an indelible impression and inexorably draws one back. From High Places is a celebration of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771602167Author Junko TabeiFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books

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On 29 May 1953 Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary conquered Everest, three days before the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. Before their success, Everest had claimed the lives of dozens of climbers, including George Leigh Mallory in 1924. Norgay, the...

Lofoten is a magical area; towering granite peaks rise above deep blue fjords, with tiny wooden fishing villages squeezed between the mountains and the oceans. The extensive climbing is on magnificent granite cliffs and the vast majority of it is...

Robert Mads Anderson is an elite mountaineer with a solitary goal: to conquer Everest. After nearly getting killed on his first expedition, he led a team up a new route on the Kangshung Face without oxygen or Sherpa support, climbed solo on the remote...

Winner of the 2010 Boardman Tasker Prize. Ron Fawcett is a natural-born climber. In 1969, while still at school in his native Yorkshire, he tied into a climbing rope for the first time and was instantly hooked. From that moment on, it seemed nothing else...

In Rappelling you'll find everything you need to know about descending a rope, from the most basic to advanced techniques, including knots, rigging strategies, rappel devices, and more. Included is a comprehensive discussion of ropes, slings, and all the...

Publication of early development at Huntsham Crag and Near Hearkening Rock in the 1999 Symonds Yat guide led promptly to an explosion of exploration of the numerous sandstone outcrops and boulders throughout the northern sector of the Forest of Dean...

Companion to the classic Yosemite in the Sixties, this book uses the words of the climbers of the time and artfully restored photographs to chronicle the historic first ascents of Yosemite's "mile-high" granite walls, the legendary personalities who...

The Duddon Valley is probably one of the most beautiful valleys in the Lake District and its certainly one of the least frequented and unspoilt. Many climbers will be familiar with the area due to the relative popularity of Wallowbarrow Crag, a great...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993413049Author Mark HorrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Mountain Footsteps PressPublisher Mountain Footsteps PressWeight(grams) 227g

The best known mountaineer in Britain and for 40 years through his books, lectures and TV films an ambassador for every aspect of the mountaineering world, Sir Chris Bonington remains essentially a shy, complex man. This biography explores his lonely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Alex Award - YALSA 1998 and New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age and YALSA Best Books for Young Adults.Book InformationISBN 9780679457527Author Jon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476738468Author Visiting Lecturer David RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

This work tells the story of explorations and ascents in the Scottish Highlands in the days before mountaineering became a popular sport - when Jacobites, bandits, poachers and illicit distillers traditionally used the mountains as sanctuary.Book...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941283465Author Lito Tejada-FloresFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Western Eye PressPublisher Western Eye PressWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm)...

'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...

In 1909, while dreaming of the Himalaya, Norwegian mountaineer Alf Bonnevie Bryn and a fellow young climber, the Australian George Ingle Finch, set their sights on Corsica to build their experience. The events of this memorable trip form the basis of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061834790Author Graham BowleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 245g

"Still the best book on improving at climbing ... worth every penny and more." -- Dave MacLeod, online climbing coach blog In full color with 52 practical training exercises designed to advance technique Detailed anatomical illustrations explain climbing...

Great explorers are known for their hard-earned skills and meticulously honed character traits which have made their astonishing endeavours possible. Valuable lessons are waiting to be learned from the feats attained by the most revered names in...

This title is the second in the series of 4 books for general sport climbing in France, and is designed for all levels of climber. The title says it all, collecting together all of the great places to go climbing for the weekend in one book. - The...

The essential handbook for every beginner, Learning to Climb Indoors is the most complete book available on indoor climbing-now revised and in its third edition! Veteran climber, performance coach, and renowned author Eric J. Hoerst gives you all the...

From Ken Crocket, author of Ben Nevis - Britain's Highest Mountain, comes the full story of the dawning of mountaineering in Scotland. It will shock many to discover that within a few years, Victorian climbers brought climbing in Scotland to technical...

Drawing on interviews with many leading mountaineers or their survivors, Coffey goes beyond the typical climbing book to question the reasons why climbers risk their lives. The result is a powerful, affecting book that strips the romance from adventure...