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A Slender Thread by Stephen Venables 9781560252986
Booksplease Price: £15.21Stephen Venables and three companions made the first ascent of Panchu Chuli V--a remote Himalayan peak on the borders of India, Nepal and Tibet. A rappel anchor failed on the descent, pitching... -
Everest: Alone at the Summit by Stephen Venables 9781560252894
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Every day, the path up the South Col route to the summit of Everest becomes a little more worn by the tread of dozens of package-tour climbers, but few dare to try the East, or Kangshung, Face, a... -
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Ollie by Stephen Venables 9780091800253 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £2.57"Like the swallows, Ollie came in the spring and left in the autumn. Dancing, singing, swooping - there was something birdlike about his energy, joy and laughter - but also the fleeting, transitory,... -
Painted Mountains: First ascents in the Indian Himalaya by Stephen Venables 9781911342939
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.94'The mountains are crystal under the blue sky, as we climb up our untouched peak. This is why we climb.'In this fast-paced, refreshingly honest account, Stephen Venables invites you on an adventure... -
High Risk: Climbing to extinction by Brian Hall 9781839812156
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.02The 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,... -
No Place To Fall: Superalpinism in the High Himalaya by Victor Saunders 9781911342205
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42No Place to Fall is Victor Saunders' follow up to his Boardman Tasker Prize winning debut book Elusive Summits. Covering three expeditions in Nepal, the Karakoram and the Kumaon, each shares the... -
Ascent by Sir Chris Bonington 9781471157578
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95'He is the David Attenborough of mountaineering . . . Bonington's most personal memoir yet' The Times 'This is a compelling tale of fortitude and endurance' The Sunday TimesChris Bonington is... -
Upland: A Journey through Time and the Hills Ian Crofton 9781780279794
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Fascinating and lyrical . . . A beautifully written celebration of a lifelong passion' - Stephen Venables The relationship of people with hills and mountains has been complex, rich and varied - from... -
The Endless Knot: K2, Mountain of Dreams and Destiny by Kurt Diemberger 9781911342656
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.50A monumental book - I defy anyone to read it and remain unmoved. - Stephen Venables, Alpine Journal. Acclaimed as one of the most powerful accounts of mountain adventure and tragedy ever written, The... -
Mountain Guru: The Life of Doug Scott by Catherine Moorehead 9781780278315
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.55Winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Award Doug Scott was a legend among mountaineers. His expeditions, undertaken over a period of five decades, are unparalleled achievements. This book describes the... -
Seven Climbs: Finding the finest climb on each continent by Charles Sherwood 9781912560851
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.19'Even the most casual reader among you will by now have worked out that the whole thing is little more than a delightful ruse for having a very good time.'Experienced climber Charles Sherwood is on a... -
Nine Lives: Expeditions to Everest by Robert Mads Anderson
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.32Robert 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... -
Elusive Summits: Four Expeditions in the Karakoram by Victor Saunders 9781911342199
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05At a time when the greatest mountains in the greatest ranges had been climbed by numerous routes, collected like stamps and written about extensively, Victor Saunders and his friends relished the... -
Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong by Gordon Stainforth 9780957054301
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59"Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong" is the epic true account from Gordon Stainforth of a near-death experience on a mountain in Norway in 1969. In the summer of 1969, as Apollo 11 was blasting off... -
Whymper's Scrambles with a Camera: A Victorian Magic Lantern Show by Peter Berg 9780900523670
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £12.292011 marks the centenary of the death of Edward Whymper, one of the most important figures in the history of mountaineering. His ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, and the deaths of four members of... -
Traitors: History's Greatest Turncoats, From Judas Iscariot to the Men Who Plotted to Kill Hitler Ian Crofton 9781529440010
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'If I had to choose between betraying my friend and betraying my country, I hope I should have the courage to betray my country.' E. M. FORSTERPeople have betrayed their country, or their friends,... -
The Adventure Game by Mr. Keith Partridge 9781910124314
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £18.18Keith 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... -
The Wildest Dream: George Mallory: The Biography of an Everest Hero Peter Gillman 9780747264583
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In 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... -
Everest 1922: The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the World’s Highest Mountain by Mick Conefrey
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Though it remains by far the world's most famous mountain, in recent years Everest's reputation has changed radically, with long queues of climbers on the Lhotse Face, lurid tales of frozen corpses... -
On Thin Ice: Alpine Climbs in the Americas, Asia and the Himalaya by Mick Fowler 9781898573586
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.80On Thin Ice is Mick Fowler's second set of climbing memoirs, following Vertical Pleasure. Here, the celebrated mountaineer records his expeditions since 1990 where, despite work and family... -
Chomolungma Sings the Blues: Travels Round Everest by Ed Douglas 9781841194004
Booksplease Price: £18.18If there is one mountain that is known across the whole world, it must be the highest - Everest. To the people who live at its feet she is Chomolungma, Goddess Mother of the World. The disappearance... -
First on Everest: The Life of Howard Somervell Graham Hoyland 9781803998282
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.80'Hoyland writes with rare authority, empathy and insight, delivering a vital and beautifully told biography long overdue.' - Sir Chris Bonington, renowned British mountaineer'Hoyland eloquently... -
Echoes: One climber's hard road to freedom by Nick Bullock
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.77Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature.'As I sat cradling the man's head, with his blood and brains sticking to my hands, I heard a voice - my own voice. It was asking me...