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Author : Jim Perrin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The Climbing Essays written by Jim Perrin and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Perrin
Publisher : Neil Wilson Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781903238981
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (389 download)
Download or read book The Climbing Essays written by Jim Perrin and published by Neil Wilson Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognised as one of Britain's mountain writers, this collection brings together the best of author's essays and articles on climbing. It is selected from four decades of describing and commenting on the experience of rock-climbing and the characters of the climbing community.
Author : Chris Noble
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493007181
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Women Who Dare written by Chris Noble and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of feminine beauty, athleticism, wisdom, and skill—Women Who Dare profiles twenty of America’s most inspiring women climbers ranging from legends like Lynn Hill to the rising stars of today, with stunning color photography by veteran adventure photographer Chris Noble.
Author : Victor Saunders
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1912560682
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Structured Chaos written by Victor Saunders and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Mountains have given structure to my adult life. I suppose they have also given me purpose, though I still can't guess what that purpose might be. And although I have glimpsed the view from the mountaintop and I still have some memory of what direction life is meant to be going in, I usually lose sight of the wood for the trees. In other words, I, like most of us, have lived a life of structured chaos.' Structured Chaos is Victor Saunders' follow-up to Elusive Summits (winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize in 1990), No Place to Fall and Himalaya: The Tribulations of Vic & Mick. He reflects on his early childhood in Malaya and his first experiences of climbing as a student, and describes his progression from scaling canal-side walls in Camden to expeditions in the Himalaya and Karakoram. Following climbs on K2 and Nanga Parbat, he leaves his career as an architect and moves to Chamonix to become a mountain guide. He later makes the first ascent of Chamshen in the Saser Kangri massif, and reunites with old friend Mick Fowler to climb the north face of Sersank. This is not just a tale of mountaineering triumphs, but also an account of rescues, tragedies and failures. Telling his story with humour and warmth, Saunders spans the decades from youthful awkwardness to concerns about age-related forgetfulness, ranging from 'Where did I put my keys?' to 'Is this the right mountain?' Structured Chaos is a testament to the value of friendship and the things that really matter in life: being in the right place at the right time with the right people, and making the most of the view.
Author : Tom Patey
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 9780898865424
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (654 download)
Download or read book One Man's Mountains written by Tom Patey and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first American edition of a mountaineering classic: stories, satire, and verse by the legendary Scottish climber.
Author : Ed Douglas
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1911342495
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (113 download)
Download or read book The Magician's Glass written by Ed Douglas and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'How much risk is worth taking for so beautiful a prize?' The Magician's Glass by award-winning writer Ed Douglas is a collection of eight recent essays on some of the biggest stories and best-known personalities in the world of climbing. In the title essay, he writes about failure on Annapurna III in 1981, one of the boldest attempts in Himalayan mountaineering on one of the most beautiful lines – a line that remains unclimbed to this day. Douglas writes about bitter controversies, like that surrounding Ueli Steck's disputed solo ascent of of the south face of Annapurna, the fate of Toni Egger on Cerro Torre in 1959 – when Cesare Maestri claimed the pair had made the first ascent, and the rise and fall of Slovenian ace Tomaz Humar. There are profiles of two stars of the 1980s: the much-loved German Kurt Albert, the father of the 'redpoint', and the enigmatic rock star Patrick Edlinger, a national hero in his native France who lost his way. In Crazy Wisdom, Douglas offers fresh perspectives on the impact mountaineering has on local communities and the role climbers play in the developing world. The final essay explores the relationship between art and alpinism as a way of understanding why it is that people climb mountains.
Author : Armand Edwards Singer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Essays on the Literature of Mountaineering written by Armand Edwards Singer and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steve House
Publisher : Patagonia
ISBN 13 : 1938340051
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (383 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Mountain written by Steve House and published by Patagonia. This book was released on 2013-10-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it take to be one of the world's best high-altitude mountain climbers? A lot of fundraising; traveling in some of the world's most dangerous countries; enduring cold bivouacs, searing lungs, and a cloudy mind when you can least afford one. It means learning the hard lessons the mountains teach. Steve House built his reputation on ascents throughout the Alps, Canada, Alaska, the Karakoram and the Himalaya that have expanded possibilities of style, speed, and difficulty. In 2005 Steve and alpinist Vince Anderson pioneered a direct new route on the Rupal Face of 26,600-foot Nanga Parbat, which had never before been climbed in alpine style. It was the third ascent of the face and the achievement earned Steveand Vince the first Piolet d"or (Golden Ice Axe) awarded to North Americans. Steve is an accomplished and spellbinding storyteller in the tradition of Maurice Herzog and Lionel Terray. Beyond the Mountain is a gripping read destined to be a mountain classic. And it
Author : Kris Hampton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734103601
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Hard Truth written by Kris Hampton and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A no nonsense examination of what it takes to not only climb stronger, but to be a better climber.
Author : Climbing Magazine Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book 30 Years of Climbing Magazine written by Climbing Magazine Staff and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not everyone can nearly drown on El Cap ... or get thrown in a Tibetan prison ... or fall 150 feet. But everyone can read about it in Climbing's Anthology. 30 Years of Climbing is the magazine's best writing compiled into an anthology.
Author : Hans Florine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149302499X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book On the Nose written by Hans Florine and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 never climb a rock, indeed anyone inspired by the idea of a passionate, lifelong quest of any type. —Jim Collins, author of Good to Great Hans Florine is a big-wall climbing legend in his own time. He holds the speed record on the Nose route of El Capitan, a 3,000-foot granite cliff in Yosemite Valley that’s considered the Everest of the rock-climbing world. Ascending the Nose takes most climbers anywhere from 12 to 96 hours. Florine, along with climbing partner Alex Honnold, does it in an astounding 2.5 hours. But Florine’s story is not one of super-human athletic prowess; it’s one of persistence and dogged determination. In 30 years of climbing, he's ascended the Nose a mind-blowing, death-defying 100 times, more than anyone else ever has, and most likely ever will. In On the Nose, Florine describes the most dangerous, pivotal, and inspirational of those climbs, providing a rare look inside the adrenaline-charged world of competitive climbing in Yosemite Valley. He tells of his very first attempt on the Nose, which ended in failure after 14 hours, his friendships (and rivalries) with climbing’s most colorful personalities, and his battle with Dean Potter to secure the definitive speed record on the Nose—an endeavor that’s been called the wildest competition known to man. Perhaps most interestingly, Florine attempts to answer the question why. Why would anyone undertake one of the greatest adventure epics on earth 100 times? His answers provide unique insights on how to live a satisfying life, how to achieve big goals, and how an otherwise ordinary guy can become a rock star.
Author : Emily Small
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780645032116
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (321 download)
Download or read book More Than It Hurts written by Emily Small and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen climbers and mountaineers tell their inspiring, insightful, hilarious, heart-warming and adrenaline filled stories of adventure and misadventure in Australia and beyond.
Author : John Muir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mountaineering Essays written by John Muir and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains eleven mountain adventures, from the high Sierras in California to first ascents in Alaska. In each John Muir, who founded the Sierra Club in 1892, maintains a careful and subtle balance between the physical and symbolic aspects of ascending or observing the sublimity of his surroundings. Mountains are for him a source of discovery, not merely of new geography, but also of the inner human, and they represent a supreme test and an affirmation of the human spirit.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781680510836
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Climbers written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Twenty years in the making, The Climbers shares a stunning collection of images of some of the icons of mountaineering *Portraits that reveal the core of their remarkable subjects *A visual history of special significance to climbers of all ages *Beautifully packaged in a cloth slip case to enhance its collectability. For nearly 2 decades, professional photographer Jim Herrington has been working on a portrait series of influential rock and mountain climbers. The Climbers documents these rugged individualists who, from roughly the 1930s to 1970s, used primitive gear along with their considerable wits, talent, and fortitude to tackle unscaled peaks around the world. Today, these men and women are renowned for their past accomplishments and, in many cases, are the last of the remaining practitioners from the so-called Golden Age of 20th century climbing."--
Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416548769
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book On the Ridge Between Life and Death written by David Roberts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What compels mountain climbers to take the risks that they do? Is it the thrill in the physical accomplishment, in managing to defy the odds, or both -- and why do they continue to do what they do in the face of such great danger? In On the Ridge Between Life and Death, David Roberts confronts these questions head-on as he recounts the exhilarating highs and desperate lows of his climbing career. By the time he was twenty-two, Roberts had already been involved in three fatal mountain climbing accidents and had escaped death himself by the sheerest of luck. And yet, as he acknowledges, few things have brought him more joy than climbing. In a famous essay on the subject written more than twenty years ago, Roberts judged climbing to be "worth the risk." He continues to climb to this day, and several of his challenging routes in Alaska have never been climbed since. But in reassessing the emotional costs to himself and to loved ones, he reaches a different conclusion, one that is sure to cause controversy not only in climbing circles, but among adventurers of all kinds. Candid and unflinching, On the Ridge Between Life and Death is a compelling examination of the risks we take in order to feel more alive.
Author : Yvon Chouinard
Publisher : Patagonia
ISBN 13 : 1938340183
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (383 download)
Download or read book Climbing Fitz Roy, 1968 written by Yvon Chouinard and published by Patagonia. This book was released on 2013-10-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features rare, once-thought-lost photos of the 1968 first ascent of the California Route on Cerro Fitz Roy, the third ascent of the mountain. With accompanying retrospective essays. Climbing Fitz Roy,1968, presents photo documentation of the climb, places it in the social and climbing context of the times, and reflects how this momentous trip influenced the lives of those involved, and in a greater context, the lives of so many others.
Author : Mark Pfetzer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0141304979
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)
Download or read book Within Reach written by Mark Pfetzer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1996 the media scrambled to document the gripping story of sixteen-year-old Mark Pfetzer's expedition to Mount Everest. Not only was he the youngest climber ever to attempt the summit, he also witnessed the tragedy documented in Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, in which eight climbers perished in a sudden storm. Within Reach is Mark's extraordinary account of this experience and of his triumphs over several other challenging peaks. At once triumphant and tragic, this story will be an inspiration to climbers, athletes, and armchair enthusiasts alike.
