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Author : Harold Washington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Climbing a Great Mountain written by Harold Washington and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Bonington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910240779
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Chris Bonington Mountaineer written by Chris Bonington and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Bonington Mountaineer is a photographic autobiography, documenting over sixty years of climbing the world¿s most beautiful and challenging mountains. Few climbers can match Bonington¿s climbing achievements. He is one of the most accomplished and respected climbers in the world. In this 2016 revised edition, which features over 500 photographs, we are given a frank perspective into the surreal, majestic and occasionally tragic corners of his incredible mountaineering career. Whether in the Arctic, the jungle or on an 8,000-metre peak, Bonington¿s stunning photography and engaging conversational prose take us through the detail of daily life on expedition, the action of the climbing and the grandeur of the mountains. From his foundations ¿ climbing in Snowdonia, the English Lake District, and the Highlands of Scotland ¿ Bonington takes us to the Alps and on his expedition apprenticeship in 1960s Nepal. This quickly leads to trips to Patagonia, the Karakoram, the Amazon, Baffin Island and the River Nile, before the meat of his career on the big walls and 8,000-metre peaks of the Himalaya ¿ with his leadership of the expeditions that made the first ascents of the south face of Annapurna in 1970 and the south-west face of Everest in 1975, and culminating in his own ascent of Everest in 1985. The greatest challenge and survival story of all is his first ascent and epic descent of The Ogre in Pakistan with Doug Scott. Bonington¿s undying hunger for adventure leads to later exploratory trips to Greenland, India and Morocco, and a return to the scene of one of his defining first ascents, the Old Man of Hoy, with world-class adventure climber Leo Houlding. The result is a penetrating insight into the motivations and fears of a driven climber who set out year after year from a life of comfort and success to test himself amongst the world¿s most savage mountains. Chris Bonington Mountaineer is a must for anyone with a passion for exploration, mountains or climbing.
Author : The Mountaineers
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 1680510053
Total Pages : 1174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills written by The Mountaineers and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The definitive guide to mountains and climbing . . .”—Conrad Anker For nearly 60 years it’s been revered as the “bible” of mountaineering–and now it’s even better than ever The best-selling instructional text for new and intermediate climbers for more than half a century New edition—fully updated techniques and all-new illustrations Researched and written by a team of expert climbers Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills is the text beloved by generations of new climbers—the standard for climbing education around the world where it has been translated into 12 languages. For the all-new 9th Edition, committees comprosed of active climbers and climbing educators reviewed every chapter of instruction, and discussed updates with staff from the American Alpine Club (AAC), the American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education (AIARE), and the Access Fund. They also worked with professional members of the American Mountain Guides Association (AMGA), to review their work and ensure that the updated textbook includes the most current best practices for both alpine and rock climbing instruction. From gear selection to belay and repel techniques, from glacier travel to rope work, to safety, safety, and more safety—there is no more comprehensive and thoroughly vetted training manual for climbing than the standard set by Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills, 9th Edition. Significant updates to this edition include: • New alignment with AAC’s nationwide universal belay standard • Expanded and more detailed avalanche safety info, including how to better understand avalanches, evaluate hazards, travel safely in avy terrain, and locate and rescue a fellow climber in an avalanche • Newly revamped chapters on clothing and camping • All-new illustrations reflecting the latest gear and techniques—created by artist John McMullen, former art director of Climbing magazine • Review of and contributions to multiple sections by AMGA-certified guides • Fresh approach to the Ten Essentials—now making the iconic list easier to recall
Author : David Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Mountain of My Fear written by David Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of first ascent of west face of Mt. Huntington, Alaska, in 1965.
Author : Neville Shulman
Publisher : PeriplusEdition
ISBN 13 : 9780804817752
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Zen in the Art of Climbing Mountains written by Neville Shulman and published by PeriplusEdition. This book was released on 1992 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mick Conefrey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781838039622
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (396 download)
Download or read book The Last Great Mountain written by Mick Conefrey and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Great Mountain tells the story of the first ascent of Kangchenjunga the third highest but reputedly the hardest mountain in the world. It was an astonishing achievement for a British team led by Everest veteran Charles Evans. Drawing on interviews, diaries and unpublished accounts, Mick Conefrey begins his story in 1905 with the first, disastrous attempt on the mountain by a team led by Aleister Crowley, explores the three dramatic German expeditions of the the late 1920s and brings it all to a climax 50 years later with the first ascent by Joe Brown and George Band. The Last Great Mountain is the final instalment of Mick Conefrey's acclaimed high altitude trilogy.
Author : Carl Lee
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781628390339
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Reaching New Heights written by Carl Lee and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl is a businessman who started climbing mountains relatively late in life. His love for the mountains and great outdoors started as a boy growing up in Wyoming. Weekends were often spent in the Wyoming hills and mountains hunting Indian artifacts or catching trout. Climbing always interested him, but for most of his life he never considered becoming a mountain climber. But as he commuted to his job in Boulder, Colorado, one beautiful and huge mountain greeted him each day - Longs Peak. The dormant desire to climb mountains came alive. A goal was set to climb Longs Peak. This was an especially challenging goal as Carl was still recovering from kidney cancer. Together with his rehabilitation specialist, plans were made to climb Longs Peak. With a significant amount of physical conditioning, Carl stood on the summit of this great Colorado 14er. A passion to climb mountains was born. In the summer of 2009, Carl put work on the backburner to focus on mountain climbing. Ten mountains were selected. He had two primary goals for the Summer of Climbing -- first, to summit each mountain. Second to look for the defining moment of each climb and then to develop life lessons around the defining moments. The Result is Reaching New Heights, A Summer of Climbing. Join Carl as he climbs. Experience the thrill, pain and sense of accomplishment as he works his way to the summit. Then spend time in reflecting on the defining moments and the lessons he learned. His life was changed writing this book. As you journey with him through his Summer of Climbing, his prayer is that you will be blessed, enriched and challenged.
Author : Chris Bonington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910240779
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Chris Bonington Mountaineer written by Chris Bonington and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Bonington Mountaineer is a photographic autobiography, documenting over sixty years of climbing the world¿s most beautiful and challenging mountains. Few climbers can match Bonington¿s climbing achievements. He is one of the most accomplished and respected climbers in the world. In this 2016 revised edition, which features over 500 photographs, we are given a frank perspective into the surreal, majestic and occasionally tragic corners of his incredible mountaineering career. Whether in the Arctic, the jungle or on an 8,000-metre peak, Bonington¿s stunning photography and engaging conversational prose take us through the detail of daily life on expedition, the action of the climbing and the grandeur of the mountains. From his foundations ¿ climbing in Snowdonia, the English Lake District, and the Highlands of Scotland ¿ Bonington takes us to the Alps and on his expedition apprenticeship in 1960s Nepal. This quickly leads to trips to Patagonia, the Karakoram, the Amazon, Baffin Island and the River Nile, before the meat of his career on the big walls and 8,000-metre peaks of the Himalaya ¿ with his leadership of the expeditions that made the first ascents of the south face of Annapurna in 1970 and the south-west face of Everest in 1975, and culminating in his own ascent of Everest in 1985. The greatest challenge and survival story of all is his first ascent and epic descent of The Ogre in Pakistan with Doug Scott. Bonington¿s undying hunger for adventure leads to later exploratory trips to Greenland, India and Morocco, and a return to the scene of one of his defining first ascents, the Old Man of Hoy, with world-class adventure climber Leo Houlding. The result is a penetrating insight into the motivations and fears of a driven climber who set out year after year from a life of comfort and success to test himself amongst the world¿s most savage mountains. Chris Bonington Mountaineer is a must for anyone with a passion for exploration, mountains or climbing.
Author : Maryanne a Parks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781707036479
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Life's a Climb But the View Is Great written by Maryanne a Parks and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-09 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This mountain climbing themed 8" x 10" notebook makes for the perfect gift for the person loves climb mountains. They will love that you found the perfect saying that expresses how they feel. Features: Soft-Bound Cover with Premium Design 108 White, College Ruled Pages 8" x 10" Size Makes the perfect gift! Pick one up today!
Author : S. A. Kramer
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0679838856
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (798 download)
Download or read book To the Top! written by S. A. Kramer and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1993-03-31 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illus. in full color. Here is the gripping story of Hillary and Norgay's perilous ascent of Mount Everest as they battled snow and ice slides, whipping winds, and the grim knowledge that 19 others had died in the same attempt.
Author : Steve Jenkins
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547349564
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)
Download or read book The Top of the World written by Steve Jenkins and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002-04-29 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stunning picture book, Steve Jenkins takes us to Mount Everest - exploring its history, geography, climate, and culture. This unique book takes readers on the ultimate adventure of climbing the great mountain. Travel along and learn what to pack for such a trek and the hardships one may suffer on the way to the top. Avalanches, frostbite, frigid temperatures, wind, and limited oxygen are just a few of the dangers that make scaling this peak one of the most extreme physical challenges one can experience. To stand on the top of Mount Everest is to stand on top of the world. With informative text and exquisitely detailed cut paper illustrations, Steve Jenkins brings this extreme journey alive for young adventurers.
Author : Ruth Mendenhall
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811767302
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Introduction to Rock and Mountain Climbing written by Ruth Mendenhall and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those who would like to climb mountains, and for those who merely like to contemplate the possibility, Ruth and John Mendenhall have written as entertaining and completely instructive a book as have ever been tucked into a rucksack. Since ascending a peak inevitably beings at the bottom, the Mendenhalls first advice neophytes on where to find proper instruction, how much will be expected of them as beginners, and what to bring on early climbs. Sorted out here is the gear and clothing really needed to get started, and safe ways to get the experience and learn techniques needed to confidently approach later climbs on rock, snow, glaciers, and peaks. Explicit, authoritative information on what climbers really do on diverse terrain introduced the proper use of rope, belaying the climber below and the leader above, learning to lead, and using pitons in rock or ice. In this step-by-step progression the beginner is introduced to rappels, how to choose sound rappel points, and how to set safe rappels. Details on the functions of ice axe and crampons, and the complex conditions encountered on glaciers, arm the progressing climber with further basic information that builds mountaineering skill. This uniquely complete coverage advanced from the beginning through intermediate climbing, and includes discussions of advanced and controversial techniques that the less experienced will be curious about. Through it all comes an awareness of what mountaineering really is…the high spirits, good humor, pleasures, and philosophies of those who climb.
Author : Frank S. Smythe
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473389429
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)
Download or read book The Mountain Top - An Illustrated Anthology From the Prose and Pictures written by Frank S. Smythe and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful book on mountain climbing full of the romance and daring that characterized the pioneers of the sport. Full of stunning images .
Author : Jon Krakauer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1599217708
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Eiger Dreams written by Jon Krakauer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant hardships and victories more brilliantly than critically acclaimed author Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest work from such magazines as Outside and Smithsonian, he explores the subject from the unique and memorable perspective of one who has battled peaks like K2, Denali, Everest, and, of course, the Eiger. Always with a keen eye, an open heart, and a hunger for the ultimate experience, he gives us unerring portraits of the mountaineering experience. Yet Eiger Dreams is more about people than about rock and ice—people with that odd, sometimes maniacal obsession with mountain summits that sets them apart from other men and women. Here we meet Adrian the Romanian, determined to be the first of his countrymen to solo Denali; John Gill, climber not of great mountains but of house-sized boulders so difficult to surmount that even demanding alpine climbs seem easy; and many more compelling and colorful characters. In the most intimate piece, “The Devils Thumb,” Krakauer recounts his own near-fatal, ultimately triumphant struggle with solo-madness as he scales Alaska's Devils Thumb. Eiger Dreams is stirring, vivid writing about one of the most compelling and dangerous of all human pursuits.
Author : Eric Shipton
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1910240265
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Upon that Mountain written by Eric Shipton and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon that Mountain is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer Eric Shipton. In it, he describes all his pre-war climbing, including his Everest bids of the 1930s, and his second Karakoram survey in 1939, when he returned to Snow Lake to complete the mapping of the ranges flanking the Hispar and Choktoi glacier systems around the Ogre. Crossing great swathes of the Himalaya, the book, like so many of Shipton's works, is both entertaining and an important addition to the mountain literature genre. It captures an important period in mountaineering history - that just before the Second World War - an ends on an elegiac note as Shipton describes his last evening at the starkly-beautiful snow lake, before he returns to a 'civilisation' about to embark on a cataclysmic war.
Author : Emilie E. Powell
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570720536
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Gracie and the Mountain written by Emilie E. Powell and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace McNicol’s lifelong delight in walking and hiking helped her achieve feats considered impossible by many. At the age of 62, she moved to Tennessee and began climbing Mount Le Conte, a 6,593-foot mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. She overcame a broken back, two strokes, and other personal hardships to climb the mountain a record 244 times. This revised and expanded volume includes photos, diary entries, andGracie’s Wildflower Notebook, which contains entries compiled during the year she made her 200th climb. This inspirational biography chronicles the uplifting life and achievements of a remarkable woman.
Author : Ralph Barker
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1912560437
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (125 download)
Download or read book The Last Blue Mountain written by Ralph Barker and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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 story of the 1957 expedition to Mount Haramosh in the Karakoram range in Pakistan. With the summit beyond reach, four young climbers are about to return to camp. Their brief pause to enjoy the view and take photographs is interrupted by an avalanche which sweeps Bernard Jillott and John Emery hundreds of feet down the mountain into a snow basin. Miraculously, they both survive the fall. Rae Culbert and Tony Streather risk their own lives to rescue their friends, only to become stranded alongside them. The group's efforts to return to safety are increasingly desperate, hampered by injury, exhaustion and the loss of vital climbing gear. Against the odds, Jillott and Emery manage to climb out of the snow basin and head for camp, hoping to reach food, water and assistance in time to save themselves and their companions from an icy grave. But another cruel twist of fate awaits them. An acclaimed mountaineering classic in the same genre as Joe Simpson's Touching the Void , Ralph Barker's The Last Blue Mountain is an epic tale of friendship and fortitude in the face of tragedy.
