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This Game Of Ghosts by Joe Simpson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16When Simon Yates cut the rope and sent his friend plummeting to an ordeal few mountaineers can have contemplated, the outcome was totally unpredictable. That Joe Simpson survived is a revelation of... -
Touching The Void by Joe Simpson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15The book behind the BAFTA award-winning film. Winner of the NCR Award for non-fiction and the Boardman Tasker award. Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying... -
The Sound of Gravity by Joe Simpson
Booksplease Price: £15.60As her hand slips from his grip, Patrick's life is shattered, forever changed...Trapped high on a high mountain face during the worst storm in living memory, a young man is forced to fight the brutal... -
The Beckoning Silence by Joe Simpson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.00Joe Simpson has experienced a life filled with adventure but marred by death. He has endured the painful attrition of climbing friends in accidents, calling into question the perilously exhilarating... -
Touching The Void Joe Simpson 9780099511748
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon, reached the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June... -
Dark Shadows Falling by Joe Simpson
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47In 1992, an Indian climber was left to die on the South Col of Mount Everest by other climbers who watched his feebly waving hand from their tent. He was filmed in his last hours for a television... -
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson 9780435017057
Booksplease Price: £19.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780435017057Author Joe SimpsonFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint HeinemannPublisher Pearson... -
Climbing Days Dan Richards 9780571311934
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In Climbing Days, Dan Richards is on the trail of his great-great-aunt, Dorothy Pilley, a prominent and pioneering mountaineer of the early twentieth century. For years, Dorothy and her husband, I. A... -
Touching the Void by David Greig
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In 1928 a journalist asked George Mallory why he wanted to climb Everest. Mallory said, 'Because it's there.'Joe Simpson's memoir Touching the Void, international bestseller and BAFTA-winning film,... -
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set them Free Hector Tobar 9781444755411
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIETTE BINOCHE AND ANTONIO BANDERASTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST'Riveting ...The best book I've... -
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson 9780060730550
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.13The author relates his nearly fatal adventures mountaineering in the Andes, adventures that included a fall into a crevice, broken limbs, and return to safety.Book InformationISBN 9780060730550Author... -
The White Spider by Heinrich Harrer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88A classic of mountaineering literature, this is the story of the harrowing first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the most legendary and terrifying climb in history. Heinrich Harrer,... -
Left For Dead: My Journey Home from Everest by Beck Weathers 9780751530858
Booksplease Price: £18.99Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer's famous account of the 1996 Everest disaster, INTO THIN AIR, will remember the story of Beck Weathers: the gregarious Texan climber who went snow-blind in the Death... -
A Descriptive Analysis of the Use of Filled Pauses Among Native and Nonnative Speakers of English by Joellen Simpson 9780530003467
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £47.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530003467Author Joellen SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dissertation Discovery... -
A Descriptive Analysis of the Use of Filled Pauses Among Native and Nonnative Speakers of English by Joellen Simpson 9780530003474
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £71.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530003474Author Joellen SimpsonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Dissertation Discovery... -
The Wild Within: Climbing the world's most remote mountains by Simon Yates 9781912560257
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05'All mountaineers develop differently. Some go higher, some try ever-steeper faces and others specialise in a particular range or region. I am increasingly drawn to remoteness - to places where few... -
One Man's Everest: The Autobiography of Kenton Cool by Kenton Cool
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Kenton Cool is the finest alpine climber of this generation. His accomplishments are staggering. He has summited Everest twelve times. He is the first person in history to climb the three Everest... -
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The 100 Greatest Climbing and Mountaineering Books by Jon Barton 9781839810282 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £2.46Here is a list. It contains 100 climbing and mountaineering books. Some are brilliant; some are not. Some have won awards; some of them should have. Some of them are only a year or two old; some were... -
The 100 Greatest Climbing and Mountaineering Books by Jon Barton 9781839810282
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £8.18Here is a list. It contains 100 climbing and mountaineering books. Some are brilliant; some are not. Some have won awards; some of them should have. Some of them are only a year or two old; some were... -
Closer to the Edge: Climbing to the Ends of the Earth by Leo Houlding 9781472288714
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Leo Houlding started climbing at ten years of age in the Lake District and was the youngest person (and first Briton) to free climb El Capitan in Yosemite National Park in the United States at... -
Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8000-Metre Peak by Maurice Herzog
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46One of the finest mountaineering books. A phenomenal tale of strength and valour.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOE SIMPSONIn 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000 meters had ever been climbed. Maurice Herzog... -
No Easy Way: The challenging life of the climbing taxman by Mick Fowler 9781839812132
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.02'If we were guaranteed success in everything we tried then life would be pretty boring.'Mainstream news reports about climbing are dominated by action from the world's highest mountains, more often... -
Survivors of Land, Sea and Sky: Inspiring true stories of survival by Ben Hubbard
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Prepare to be amazed by these incredible tales of human strength and determination in the face of disaster. Read 15 amazing survival stories, and let the exciting narrative text and dramatic... -
The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan and the Climbing Life by Mark Synnott
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Shortlisted for Biography of the Year at the Telegraph Sports Book Awards 2020Shortlisted for Adventure Travel Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020On June 3rd 2017,... -
Learning To Breathe by Andy Cave
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81At the age of sixteen, Andy Cave followed in his father's and grandfather's footsteps and became a miner - one of the last recruits into a dying world. Every day he would descend 3,000 feet into... -
Psychovertical by Andy Kirkpatrick
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81WINNER OF THE BOARDMAN TASKER PRIZE 2008Metro magazine recently wrote that Andy Kirkpatrick makes Ray Mears look like Paris Hilton. Words like boldness, adventure and risk were surely coined... -
The Villain: The Life of Don Whillans by Jim Perrin
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95Don Whillans has an iconic significance for generations of climbers. His epoch-making first ascent of Annapurna's South Face, achieved with Dougal Haston in 1970, remains one of the most impressive... -
In Some Lost Place: The first ascent of Nanga Parbat's Mazeno Ridge by Sandy Allan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.16Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature.In the summer of 2012, a team of six climbers set out to attempt the first ascent of one of the great unclimbed lines of the Himalaya... -
Shadow of the Silk Road: (Vintage Voyages) by Colin Thubron
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Colin Thurbon's beautiful prose unfolds along the Silk Road, unearthing a richly layered past on his most ambitious journey. On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the... -
Travels With My Aunt: (Vintage Voyages) by Graham Greene
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Greene takes us on a wild, unconventional and enlightening voyage with an ordinary, retired bank manager and his eccentric, daring aunt. Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his... -
A Line Above the Sky: On Mountains and Motherhood by Helen Mort
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Guardian Books to Watch 2022Evening Standard Books to Watch 2022Bookseller Editor's ChoiceWinner of the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature'A wonderful book - exhilarating and taut,... -
To The Lighthouse: (Vintage Voyages) by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Woolf's textured prose invites us into each of the characters' minds as we follow them on a winding, decade-long journey to the lighthouse.Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always... -
In Patagonia: (Vintage Voyages) by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.42Chatwin's brilliantly unique record of his adventures in Patagonia and the fascinating people he meets along the way. Beautifully written and full of wonderful descriptions and intriguing tales, In... -
The Rings of Saturn: (Vintage Voyages) by W.G. Sebald
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Encountering an eccentric cast of characters along the way, Sebald confronts the frailty of human existence as he voyages along the Suffolk coast on foot. What begins as the record of a journey on... -
Dark Summit: The Extraordinary True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season Nick Heil 9780753515709
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07Everest - the highest mountain in the world and the ultimate climbing challenge. In 2006, 11 people died attempting to reach the summit, the most fatalities since 1996. But unlike 1996, 2006 saw no... -
The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering Daniel Light 9780861548163
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.44The 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... -
Himalaya: A Human History by Ed Douglas
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41'Magnificent ... this book is unlikely to be surpassed' TelegraphThis is the first major history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world's highest mountains... -
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 by Graham Bowley
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59THE GRIPPING, TERRIFYING STORY OF A BRUTAL STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL ON THE UPPER SLOPES OF THE HIMALAYAN K2, THE WORLD'S MOST HOSTILE TERRAIN. 'Unputdownable. A portrait of extreme courage, folly and... -
The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering Daniel Light 9781836430476
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99The 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 Worst Journey In The World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71One 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...