Rock Climbing

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 9788412396041Author Juan MarbarroFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Climbing LettersPublisher Climbing LettersWeight(grams) 145g

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...

The Alpine Journal reports on the world's most significant mountaineering from 2022, featuring articles from Nepal, Pakistan, Greenland and the Alps by leading alpinists Mara Hole'ek, Callum Johnson, Jacob Cook and Tom Livingstone. How women were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838400415Author Sarah-Jane DobnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Dob Dob DobPublisher Dob Dob DobWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

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 9780954070434Author Calum SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Rymour BooksPublisher Rymour Books

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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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

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...

This Scottish Mountaineering Club climbers' guidebook details all the climbing to be found on the sea-cliffs and outcrops on the magical Isle of Skye. It is an up to date and fully comprehensive guide to what is an increasingly popular area, on an...

The Anti-Atlas, by Morocco Rock, is the latest selected climbs guide to Morocco's winter sun trad climbing destination, featuring the very best routes to be found in the region around the busy market town of Tafraout, and only a couple of hours from...

A lavishly illustrated, definitive guidebook to the Avon Gorge from the Climbers Club. It reflects the unique situation of a major crag in the centre of a university city and does full justice to its historical significance as well as taking full account...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907521815Author Dave BroadheadFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Scottish Mountaineering TrustPublisher Scottish Mountaineering Trust

Rock Climbing Wyoming describes 11 major climbing areas in the state of Wyoming. It offers approximately 550 climbing routes for beginners and experts alike. Maps, color topos, and stunning action photos accompany clearly written descriptions of the...

The Blue Cliff is focused on the more aquatic sea cliff exploits, i.e. those where you stand a serious chance of getting wet, and the sea is by necessity engaged with, not just a pleasant backdrop to the action. So, it's mostly about sea-level...

Scrambling is a hands-on sport and without the stop-start of rock climbing, the joy of it can be appreciated more freely. Here, Alan Tees guides mountaineers to exhilarating scrambles in some of the most beautiful parts of the country. All abilities are...

For generations of adventurers, from Mallory to Hilary, Norgay to Krakauer, Mount Everest and the world's greatest peaks have provided the ultimate testing ground. But as the public's fascination with mountaineering reaches an all time high, the question...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811728539Author Pat AmentFormat PaperbackPage Count 2Imprint Stackpole BooksPublisher Stackpole BooksWeight(grams) 31g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780901601629Author Iain PetersFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint Climbers' ClubPublisher Climbers' Club

This book is the second volume of a planned three - volume treatment of the history of mountaineering in Scotland, and covers the period from 1914 to 1971. It was a period when there were many changes in the equipment and practice of climbing in summer...

Climbing: Knots features instructional knot-making information for the novice climber. Pocket-size, it's portable and easy-to-use, with photos throughout to assist with learning.About the AuthorNate Fitch and Ron Funderburke are AMGA certified rock...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913167042Author Steve BroadbentFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Oxford Alpine ClubPublisher Oxford Alpine ClubWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm) 190mm...

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While few of us can aspire to climb the hardest routes, we all may open the SMC Journal and experience the excitement of exploratory climbing or the tense uncertainty of a first ascent. In this issue Helen Rennard recounts her ground-breaking winter...

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...

Hundreds of first-person reports and photos The AAJ goes beyond social media and marketing copy with in-depth reports, carefully edited by a team of experts The Recon section covers the climbing history and new-route potential of Ushba, the Matterhorn...

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...

Hans Florine embodies the genius of "and"-collaborative and competitive, fast and safe, audacious and disciplined, visionary and quantitative. The themes that run through Florine's 101 ascents of Yosemite's most iconic route can benefit people who will...

The mountain parks are for all Canadians for all time and their value cannot be measured in terms of how many access roads, motels, souvenir shops and golf courses we've provided. -Bob Jordan, 1971 The Alpine Club of Canada imagined the Rockies and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680518221Author Andrew KornylakFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Mountaineers BooksPublisher Mountaineers Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999723371Author East Wind DesignFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint EwdPublisher EwdWeight(grams) 540g