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Fiva

Author : Gordon Stainforth
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 1594858470
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book Fiva written by Gordon Stainforth and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CLICK HERE to download the first 50 pages from Fiva “A wonderful, nostalgic, gripping, classic yarn with great humour.” —Joe simpson, author of Touching the Void * A classic tale of how youthful bravado leads to serious trouble * Winner, Mountain Literature Award, Banff Festival 2012 * Finalist, Boardman-Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, 2012 In 1969, teenage twin brothers Gordon and John Stainforth set out from their home in Hertfordshire, England, to climb the highest rock face in Europe — Norway’s Troll Wall. The route they targeted is called “Fiva” (pronounced “fever”). Poor judges of their own abilities, experience, and gear, they began the climb convinced they would return to their tent in time for afternoon tea. Within hours of starting the route, things went terribly wrong. Fiva is the story that Gordon Stainforth lived to tell, 40 years later. While it’s a tale that climbers will embrace, the adventure is one that all readers of non-fiction adventure will enjoy and find absorbing. It’s a story of innocence, brotherly love, youthful folly, and of danger, danger, and more danger.

Adventures in the Northlands

Author : Tony Howard
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1906148481
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Adventures in the Northlands written by Tony Howard and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-19 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lightning hit the cliff high above us, sending a dumper-load of rocks thrumming like jagged cannonballs out of the clouds to explode around us. Bill took a direct hit on his helmet, which was smashed. He hung limply and silently on the rope. His face, which was streaming with blood from a gash in his head, was a ghastly shade of white. For a horrible moment, we thought he was dead, but he came round slowly. We suggested bivouacking until he recovered but Bill, who always thrived in adversity, was having none of it. Having bandaged his head and reversed his helmet so that the hole in it wasn't over the hole in his head, and at his insistence bunged a fag in his mouth to keep him happy, we continued into the storm up the last 300 metres of the snow covered cliff. We emerged triumphantly over the cornice into the blizzard and whiteout, another first ascent in the bag.' Adventures in the Northlands is a collection of short stories written by British adventurer and mountaineer Tony Howard. From a life spent in the mountains and wilderness, Tony recalls epic tales of climbing, kayaking and adventure from Greenland, the kon and, his home-from-home, Norway. Journey with Tony into some of the most incredible wild places on earth. Vertebrate Mountain Shorts are collections of mountaineering, climbing, adventure and wilderness writing, published as ebooks and intended to be read in one go. Written by some of the world's leading outdoor adventure authors, they include rare, previously out of print and exciting new works. Vertebrate Mountain Shorts will always be inspirational, direct and to the point.

High Risk

Author : Brian Hall
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839812168
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book High Risk written by Brian Hall and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature Winner Kekoo Naoroji Award for Himalayan Literature Winner Mountain & Adventure Narrative Award, New Zealand Mountain Film & Book Festival The 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, alpine-style expeditions on mountains such as Jannu, Nuptse, Everest and K2. In High Risk, Brian Hall recalls the outrageous adventures of eleven of his climbing friends who risked – and often lost – their lives to stand on some of the world's highest peaks during a legendary period in mountaineering history.

Apron Anxiety

Author : Alyssa Shelasky
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307952150
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Apron Anxiety written by Alyssa Shelasky and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Hot sex, looking good, scoring journalistic triumphs . . . nothing made Alyssa love herself enough until she learned to cook. There's a racy plot and a surprising moral in this intimate and delicious book.” --Gael Greene, creator of Insatiable-Critic.com and author of Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess Apron Anxiety is the hilarious and heartfelt memoir of quintessential city girl Alyssa Shelasky and her crazy, complicated love affair with...the kitchen. Three months into a relationship with her TV-chef crush, celebrity journalist Alyssa Shelasky left her highly social life in New York City to live with him in D.C. But what followed was no fairy tale: Chef hours are tough on a relationship. Surrounded by foodies yet unable to make a cup of tea, she was displaced and discouraged. Motivated at first by self-preservation rather than culinary passion, Shelasky embarked on a journey to master the kitchen, and she created the blog Apron Anxiety (ApronAnxiety.com) to share her stories. This is a memoir (with recipes) about learning to cook, the ups and downs of love, and entering the world of food full throttle. Readers will delight in her infectious voice as she dishes on everything from the sexy chef scene to the unexpected inner calm of tying on an apron.

The Cuillin

Author : Gordon Stainforth
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 9781841195414
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book The Cuillin written by Gordon Stainforth and published by Constable. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cuillin, on the Isle of Skye, form the finest single chain of mountains in Britain, rising straight out of the sea to a height of over 3000 feet, and presenting a landscape of light and rapidly changeable weather. This award-winning volume of photographs, taken by British photographer Gordon Stainforth, explores the savage beauty of this unique mountain region, and captures the essence of rock climbing and scrambling in the area.

Callings

Author : Gregg Michael Levoy
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0609803700
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Callings written by Gregg Michael Levoy and published by Harmony. This book was released on 1998-09-08 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we know if we're following our true callings? How do we sharpen our senses to cut through the distractions of everyday reality and hear the calls that are beckoning us? is the first book to examine the many kinds of calls we receive and the great variety of channels through which they come to us. A calling may be to do something (change careers, go back to school, have a child) or to be something (more creative, less judgmental, more loving). While honoring a calling's essential mystery, this book also guides readers to ask and answer the fundamental questions that arise from any calling: How do we recognize it? How do we distinguish the true call from the siren song? How do we handle our resistance to a call? What happens when we say yes? What happens when we say no? Drawing on the hard-won wisdom and powerful stories of people who have followed their own calls, Gregg Levoy shows us the many ways to translate a calling into action. In a style that is poetic, exuberant, and keenly insightful, he presents an illuminating and ultimately practical inquiry into how we listen and respond to our calls, whether at work or at home, in our relationships or in service. Callings is a compassionate guide to discovering your own callings and negotiating the tight passages to personal power and authenticity.

Environmental education in the schools creating a program that works.

Author :
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428927603
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Environmental education in the schools creating a program that works. written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tent Life with English Gipsies in Norway

Author : Hubert Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Tent Life with English Gipsies in Norway written by Hubert Smith and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

COMP HIST OF CONNECTICUT CIVIL

Author : Benjamin 1735-1820 Trumbull
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781360559018
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book COMP HIST OF CONNECTICUT CIVIL written by Benjamin 1735-1820 Trumbull and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crazy River

Author : Richard Grant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439157642
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Crazy River written by Richard Grant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Dispatches From Pluto and Deepest South of All comes a rollicking travelogue from East Africa. NO ONE TRAVELS QUITE LIKE RICHARD GRANT and, really, no one should. In his last book, the adventure classic God’s Middle Finger, he narrowly escaped death in Mexico’s lawless Sierra Madre. Now, Grant has plunged with his trademark recklessness, wit, and curiosity into East Africa. Setting out to make the first descent of an unexplored river in Tanzania, he gets waylaid in Zanzibar by thieves, whores, and a charismatic former golf pro before crossing the Indian Ocean in a rickety cargo boat. And then the real adventure begins. Known to local tribes as “the river of bad spirits,” the Malagarasi River is a daunting adversary even with a heavily armed Tanzanian crew as travel companions. Dodging bullets, hippos, and crocodiles, Grant finally emerges in war-torn Burundi, where he befriends some ethnic street gangsters and trails a notorious man-eating crocodile known as Gustave. He concludes his journey by interviewing the dictatorial president of Rwanda and visiting the true source of the Nile. Gripping, illuminating, sometimes harrowing, often hilarious, Crazy River is a brilliantly rendered account of a modern-day exploration of Africa, and the unraveling of Grant’s peeled, battered mind as he tries to take it all in.

Standing in the Tempest

Author : Steven A. Mansbach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Standing in the Tempest written by Steven A. Mansbach and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Human Race

Author : Louis Figuier
Publisher : London : Cassel, Petter & Galpin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Human Race written by Louis Figuier and published by London : Cassel, Petter & Galpin. This book was released on 1872 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mississippi Bubble: A Memoir of John Law

Author : Adolphe Thiers
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382326566
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book The Mississippi Bubble: A Memoir of John Law written by Adolphe Thiers and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-04 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

The Revision Revised

Author : John William Burgon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revision Revised written by John William Burgon and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Electricity Supply in Ireland

Author : Maurice Manning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Electricity Supply in Ireland written by Maurice Manning and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cold Wars

Author : Andy Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1906148376
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Cold Wars written by Andy Kirkpatrick and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was aware that I was cold - beyond cold. I was a lump of meat left for too long in a freezer, a body trapped beneath the ice, sinking down into the dark. 'I was freezing to death.' In this brilliant sequel to his award-winning debut "Psychovertical", mountaineering stand-up Andy Kirkpatrick has achieved his life's ambition to become one of the world's leading climbers. Pushing himself to new extremes, he embarks on his toughest climbs yet - on big walls in the Alps and Patagonia - in the depths of winter. Kirkpatrick has more success, but the savagery and danger of these encounters comes at huge personal cost. Questioning his commitment to his chosen craft, Kirkpatrick is torn between family life and the dangerous path he has chosen. Written with his trademark wit and honesty, "Cold Wars" is a gripping account of modern adventure.

Lofoten Climbs

Author : Chris Craggs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781873341230
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Lofoten Climbs written by Chris Craggs and published by . This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This will be the second Rockfax guidebook to this spectacular and beautiful area, the first 2008 volume won the Banff Guidebook of the Year Award and put Lofoten very much on the map. We have updated and expanded the information with a completely new set of crag photographs, plus some fantastic maps and all the new developments from the nine years since the last book was published. For the first time we have also included coverage of the astounding set of peaks around the Stetind area on the mainland, close to Narvik. Crags Covered - The West - Helvetestinden, Merraflestinden, Breiflogtinden, Branntuva, Maslitinden, Olstinden, Ølkontinden, Reinesvaet, Ramsberg, Stortind, Eggum Henningsvær - Rørvika, Pianokrakken, Djupfjord, Presten, Gandalfveggen, Festvågvegg, The Coast Kalle - Paradiset, Vågakallen, Øverdalen, Kallebukta, Trollfestningen, Glåmtinden Kabelvåg - Sandvika, Tjelbergvika Svolvær - Blåtinden, Svolvær Geita, Skråpillaren Stetind Walking Peaks, Bouldering, Winter. Ski Mountaineering