Mountaineering

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...

Martin Moran has been a man of the mountains since youth. Famously, he made the first solo ascent of the Scottish Munros in the winter months, as described in his great book, The Munros in Winter (also published by Sandstone Press). For decades now he...

Foreword by Boardman Tasker prize-winning author Helen Mort. In Extreme Horizons, leading outdoor writer David Pickford takes us on an extraordinary journey of discovery through climbing, adventure motorcycling, wilderness travel, and nautical...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913167110Author Steve BroadbentFormat PaperbackPage Count 516Imprint Oxford Alpine ClubPublisher Oxford Alpine Club

Waterproof, pocket-sized quick reference for performing a crevasse rescue Crevasse rescue is one of the most technically complex skills a mountaineer will ever need to learn; it is also one of the most essential. While climbers can go for years...

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...

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 9780993413049Author Mark HorrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Mountain Footsteps PressPublisher Mountain Footsteps PressWeight(grams) 227g

Two Undaunted Men Frank Wells was the head of a major motion picture studio. Dick Bass had made his fortune as an energy and resort entrepreneur. In middle age, both men left behind home, family, and successful careers to share an impossible dream. Seven...

Two Undaunted Men Frank Wells was the head of a major motion picture studio. Dick Bass had made his fortune as an energy and resort entrepreneur. In middle age, both men left behind home, family, and successful careers to share an impossible dream. Seven...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850280524Author Ron KenyonFormat PaperbackPage Count 465Imprint Fell & Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake DistrictPublisher Fell & Rock...

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...

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...

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 9781913167141Author Steve BroadbentFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Oxford Alpine ClubPublisher Oxford Alpine Club

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...

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...

Crafts and Skills of the Mountain Man is a fascinating, practical guide to the skills that have made the mountain men famous worldwide as outdoorsmen and craftsmen. Readers can replicate outdoor living by trying a hand at making rafts and canoes,...

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 9781873665008Author David JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Jingo Wobbly Euro GuidesPublisher Jingo Wobbly Euro Guides

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)...

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

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...

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...

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...

In 1967, seven young men, members of a twelve-man expedition led by twenty-four-year-old Joe Wilcox, were stranded at 20,000 feet on Alaska's Mount McKinley in a vicious Arctic storm. Ten days passed while the storm raged, yet no rescue was mounted. All...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375761287Author Gregory CrouchFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm)...

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

'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...

Peter Steele brings a self-effacing narrator to life by talking to family and friends and by looking thr ough hundreds of very personal letters written over five dec ades. 'Book InformationISBN 9780094794801Author Peter SteeleFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996218153Author Ty GagneFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Tmc Books LLCPublisher Tmc Books LLCWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955441714Author Simon MarshFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Ground Up Productions LtdPublisher Ground Up Productions Ltd

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