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The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering Daniel Light 9781836430476
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.88The true story of the thrill-seekers, map-makers, soldiers, occultists, artists and porters who paved the way for modern mountaineering. 'A beautifully written and sure-footed history of... -
The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering Daniel Light 9780861548163
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.93The true story of the thrill-seekers, map-makers, soldiers, occultists, artists and porters who paved the way for modern mountaineering. 'A beautifully written and sure-footed history of... -
The Ascent Of Rum Doodle: Vintage Voyages by W E Bowman
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73An outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, discover this laugh-out-loud cult favourite. Led by the reliably under-insightful Binder, a team of seven British men... -
Aquanaut: A Life Beneath The Surface - The Inside Story of the Thai Cave Rescue by Rick Stanton
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $16.23THE ENTHRALLING INSIDE STORY OF THE THAI CAVE RESCUE FROM THE MAN AT THE HEART OF THE MISSION, AS SEEN IN THE SUNDAY TIMES'The British divers are all heroes' Clive Cussler'A case study in courage'... -
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart (Vintage Voyages) by Tim Butcher
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $19.87A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey.When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim... -
Into the Wild by Lucy Shepherd 9780241775530
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $40.40Pre-order Lucy Shepherd's story of her journey to become an explorer, her world-first expedition across the Amazon's Kanuku Mountains and her mission to share the wild places of our world.'Not just a... -
The Worst Journey In The World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.59One of the world's greatest works of travel and adventure writing, reissued on its 100th birthday.This is a gripping account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of... -
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers: (Vintage Voyages) by Xiaolu Guo
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12A charming and clever account of one woman's exploration of love, language and identity.Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English... -
Football in Sun and Shadow Eduardo Galeano 9780241355350
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'Football is a pleasure that hurts'This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama, spectacle and passion of a 'great pagan mass'. Through stories of superstition,... -
Last Man Off: A True Story of Disaster, Survival and One Man's Ultimate Test by Matt Lewis
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38In the depths of Antarctic winter, hundreds of miles from land or rescue, a small fishing boat is swallowed by waves as high as houses. The captain is fatally slow to act, and then paralyzed by fear... -
Against the Odds: The Incredible Struggles of 20 Great Adventurers Alastair Humphreys 9781787410169
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $21.57FROM THE AUTHOR OF GREAT ADVENTURERS - WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD CHILDREN'S TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019.Sometimes adventure, like life, doesn't work out as you want it to. Even determined... -
Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow by Maria Coffey 9780312339012
Booksplease Price: $28.29Drawing 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,... -
Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.18**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award**A monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everest - now serialised in the BBC R4... -
Extreme Survivors: 60 epic stories of human endurance by Collins Maps
Booksplease Price: $31.69Foreword by Bear Grylls, presenter of Running Wild and The Island. The most daring escapes, famous shipwrecks, and ultimate survival stories. These are astonishing stories of human endurance and... -
Life And Limb: A true story of tragedy and survival Jamie Andrew 9780749950521
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45Jamie Andrew's survival and rescue after five nights trapped by a ferocious storm in 1999 has passed into Alpine legend. It was a miracle that he survived; but Jamie had to come to terms not only... -
Flame Of Adventure by Simon Yates
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $17.26Simon Yates, author of Against the Wall, takes us back to his early years as a climber - the escapades and excitement of a young life lived on the edge and for the moment, when experience was... -
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RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $3.93Simon Yates, author of Against the Wall, takes us back to his early years as a climber - the escapades and excitement of a young life lived on the edge and for the moment, when experience was... -
Against The Wall by Simon Yates
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87Simon Yates is 'the one who cut the rope' in Joe Simpson's award-winning account of their epic struggle for survival in Touching the Void. Afterwards, Yates continued mountaineering on the hardest... -
Where The Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Personal Costs of Climbing by Maria Coffey
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19Climbers who court danger in the world's highest places risk far more than just their own skins. When tragedy strikes, what happens to the people who love them? Why would anyone choose to invest in a... -
The Adventure Game by Mr. Keith Partridge 9781910124314
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $38.18Keith Partridge is probably the world's most experienced and famous practitioner of a rare trade. His filming has recorded expeditions all over the world in some of its most beautiful and hostile... -
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.39A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War. Heinrich... -
High Risk: Climbing to extinction by Brian Hall 9781839812156
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $25.24The golden age of Himalayan mountaineering, from the mid-1970s to the 1980s, brought forth a generation of radical young climbers. With tiny budgets and high ambitions they pioneered fast and light,... -
The Wildest Dream: George Mallory: The Biography of an Everest Hero Peter Gillman 9780747264583
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45In 1924, George Mallory and his companion Andrew Irvine disappeared during a valiant bid to reach the world's highest summit. In May 1999 Mallory's body was found, partly resolving the riddle of... -
Thin White Line by Andy Cave
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $27.85In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he... -
The Last Blue Mountain: The great Karakoram climbing tragedy by Ralph Barker
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.69'When an accident occurs, something may emerge of lasting value, for the human spirit may rise to its greatest heights. This happened on Haramosh.'The Last Blue Mountain is the heart-rending true... -
The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest by Ed Caesar
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH BEST SPORTS WRITING AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021'One of the best books ever written about the early attempts to conquer Everest. A fine, fine slice...