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Author : Susan Andres
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1438921586
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (389 download)
Download or read book The Rain Climber written by Susan Andres and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricio Pron
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307745422
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain written by Patricio Pron and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American debut of one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists, My Fathers’ Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain is a daring and deeply affecting story of one Argentine family’s buried secrets. When a young writer returns home to visit his dying father, he finds himself drawn into an obsessive search for a local man gone missing. As the truth—not only about his father but an entire generation—comes to light, the narrator is forced to confront the ghosts of Argentina’s dark political past, as well as long-hidden memories about his own family’s history. Powerful and audacious, this semi-autobiographical novel is a thoroughly original story of corruption and responsibility, of history and remembrance, from one of South America’s most important new writers.
Author : Topher Donahue
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 1680510134
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Advanced Rock Climbing written by Topher Donahue and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The old way of climbing was systematic, methodical, and consistent. Now it’s anything goes, reacting to every situation differently.” —Tommy Caldwell • For skilled climbers who want to push to the next level • Tips and advice from Tommy Caldwell, Steph Davis, Lynn Hill, Alex Honnold and more of the world’s best climbers • 250 color photographs and 12 illustrations Advanced Rock Climbing: Expert Skills and Techniques is for good climbers who want to get even better—from training to gear, sport climbing to multi-pitch efficiency, and beyond. Each chapter has detailed advice from some of the world’s best climbers and guides—Tommy Caldwell, Angela Hawse, Justen Sjong, Steph Davis, Sonny Trotter, Alex Honnold, Lynn Hill, and more. Through clear, step-by-step instruction, detailed color photographs, and hard-earned wisdom, this new guide helps strong climbers increase their speed on multi-pitch climbs, conserve energy on big faces, train for tendon strength, improvise self-rescue, and more. Advanced Rock Climbing is for someone who has been climbing for several years and aspires to transition from intermediate to advanced levels, experienced climbers who are stuck in a rut, and naturally talented climbers who are climbing high grades but who may not have the experience to go further safely.
Author : John Burgman
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1641254092
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)
Download or read book High Drama written by John Burgman and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One afternoon in 1987, two renegade climbers in Berkeley, California, hatched an ambitious plan: under the cover of darkness, they would rappel down from a carefully scouted highway on-ramp, gluing artificial handholds onto the load-bearing concrete pillars underneath. Equipped with ingenuity, strong adhesive, and an urban guerilla attitude, Jim Thornburg and Scott Frye created a serviceable climbing wall. But what they were part of was a greater development: the expansion and reimagining of a sport now slated for a highly anticipated Olympic debut in 2020. High Drama explores rock climbing's transformation from a pursuit of select anti-establishment vagabonds to a sport embraced by competitors of all ages, social classes, and backgrounds. Climbing magazine's John Burgman weaves a multi-layered story of traditionalists and opportunists, grassroots organizers and business-minded developers, free-spirited rebels and rigorously coached athletes.
Author : Dakota Walz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733414609
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Everything I Loved More written by Dakota Walz and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything I Loved More is a roller-coaster collection of true short stories that follow a young man searching for sincere adventure along the tops of freight trains and mountain ranges. The danger can be nausea-inducing while he hangs on a single flexing hold of sandstone hundreds of feet off the ground or attempts to skirt the sexual advances of a meth smoking trucker while hitchhiking through the middle of nowhere. Between the many gripping scenes, his debasing humor acknowledges the foolish romance of it all.Beyond each singular exciting and hapless adventure, an important journey is told between the tales: the journey of a young man attempting to combat mental health issues with a potent dose of unabashed recklessness - and just how well it almost works.
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 : Predrag-Peter Ilich
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642043275
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Selected Problems in Physical Chemistry written by Predrag-Peter Ilich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics Isaac Newton, 1647–1727 The approach quoted above has been adopted and practiced by many teachers of chemistry. Today, physical chemistry textbooks are written for science and engineering majors who possess an interest in and aptitude for mathematics.No knowledge of chemistry or biology (not to mention poetry) is required. To me this sounds like a well-de?ned prescription for limiting the readership to a few and carefully selected. I think the importance of physical chemistry goes beyond this precept. The s- ject should bene?t both the science and engineering majors and those of us who dare to ask questions about the world around us. Numerical mathematics, or a way of thinking in mathematical formulas and numbers – which we all practice, when paying in cash or doing our tax forms – is important but should not be used to subordinate the in?nitely rich world of physical chemistry.
Author : Dierdre Wolownick
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 1680512439
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (85 download)
Download or read book The Sharp End of Life written by Dierdre Wolownick and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wife and mother. Teacher and musician. Marathoner and rock climber. At 66, Dierdre Wolownick-Honnold became the oldest woman to climb El Capitan in Yosemite--and in The Sharp End of Life: A Mother’s Story, she shares her intimate journey, revealing how her climbing achievement reflects a broader story of courage and persistence. Dierdre grew up under the watchful eyes of a domineering mother and realized early on that her parents’ plans for her future weren’t what she wanted for herself. Later, what seemed like a storybook romance brought escape, with new experiences and eye-opening travel, but she quickly discovered that her husband was not the happy-go-lucky man he had first appeared. Adapting as best she could, Dierdre juggled work and raising two young children, encouraging them to be fearlessly confident. She noted with delight how her “little lady” Stasia took it upon herself to look out for her baby brother, and watched in amazement as Alex (Honnold of "Free Solo" fame) started climbing practically before he could crawl. After years of struggle in her marriage and her ultimate divorce, Dierdre found inspiration in her now-adult children’s passions, as well as new depths within herself. At Stasia’s urging, she took up running at age 54 and soon completed several marathons. Then at age 58, Alex led her on her first rock climbs. A world of friendship and support suddenly opened up to her within the climbing “tribe,” culminating in her record-setting ascent of El Cap with her son. From confused young wife and busy but lonely mother to confident middle-aged athlete, Dierdre brings the reader along as she finds new strength, happiness, and community in the outdoors--and a life of learning, acceptance, and spirit.
Author : Molly Jong-Fast
Publisher : Villard
ISBN 13 : 0345526333
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)
Download or read book The Social Climber's Handbook written by Molly Jong-Fast and published by Villard. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIGH SOCIETY CAN BE A KILLER. Upper East Side socialite Daisy Greenbaum is accustomed to the finer things—designer clothes, summers in the Hamptons, elite private school educations for her daughters, and a staggeringly expensive Park Avenue apartment. But Daisy finds her well-heeled lifestyle on precarious footing after her husband, master of the universe Dick Greenbaum, learns about some shady dealings that threaten his position at The Bank. Daisy refuses to allow her family to slip down the social ladder, so she devises a madcap plan: Anyone who jeopardizes her place at the top will simply have to be dispatched—six feet under. From Dick’s arrogant boss to his scheming former mistress to a pair of nosy bloggers, Daisy’s hit list is a who’s who of big names with even bigger secrets. But with the body count rising as the Dow Jones falls, can Daisy really get away with murder?
Author : Gerry Galligan
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1909461040
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Climbing Ramabang written by Gerry Galligan and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerry Galligan's first book is a bold and expansive travel diary recounting his assembling of a small team of Irish mountaineers and their attempts on unclimbed mountains and unexplored valleys in the remote corners of the Indian Himalaya. Getting there, the team see the hardships of the sub-continent, while in the mountains they experience storms, dangers and failure before ultimately, success and contentment. But it is when Gerry returns to the mountains alone and his subsequent experiences overlanding across Asia and Europe back to Ireland that we start to get a glimpse of the big, wide world out there. A world of temples, festivals, holy cows, Kalashnikovs, donkey herders, corruption, opportunists, stoners and sages. Gerry gives us an insight into the day-to-day lives of mountain peoples, the dysfunctional functionality of India. He finds charm and tolerance in Pakistan and a surprising openness in today's Iran. We travel across rural Turkey and work our way back to the efficient and affluent West, where right on cue Gerry meets his first breakdown on a German train. Climbing Ramabang; One man's understanding of mountains, myth and mayhem.
Author : Tim Banfield
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149303135X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book How to Ice Climb! written by Tim Banfield and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ice climbing continues to grow more popular every year. Advances in equipment and technique have helped make the sport accessible to a wide variety of outdoor enthusiasts. How to Ice Climb! is the most complete and up-to-date reference available on the sport. Sean Isaac and Tim Banfield provide essential information for beginners and valuable tips for experts. Starting with an overview of the history of ice climbing, the authors move on to cover equipment selection, approach strategies, avalanche safety, hazard management, movement skills, anchor systems, overhanging ice, mixed climbing, and more. All facets of ice climbing are thoroughly examined and explained. Full color photos complement the text to make How to Ice Climb! the most complete resource available. LOOK INSIDE FOR: Expert advice Tricks and techniques Full color photos Inspiration and motivation
Author : S. Peter Lewis
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 9780898866827
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Climbing written by S. Peter Lewis and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Surpasses other training guides with a new level of instruction, clarity, and safety* "Key Transition Exercises" teach the skills you'll need to move from gym climbing to rock climbing* Climbing technique illustrated with more than 150 photos* Complements any indoor or outdoor climbing courseGetting strong and learning to climb hard routes in the gym doesn't prepare you for climbing outdoors where anything can happen. Climbing: From Gym to Crag is written by experts who teach climbing for a living. These long-time instructors have a clear, practical understanding of the different skills and climbing technique needed to go from climbing in the gym to climbing on real rock. From building anchors to leading and self-rescue, they'll teach you how to make the transition safely.Part of the Mountaineers Outdoor Expert series
Author : Heidi Pesterfield
Publisher : Wilderness Press
ISBN 13 : 0899975593
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Traditional Lead Climbing written by Heidi Pesterfield and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2007-07-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the basics of rock climbing and how to lead with gear from an experienced rock-climbing instructor. It is one of the world’s most exhilarating sports, and this book can help get you going! Traditional Lead Climbing teaches you the rock-climbing basics, and it’s the first and only guidebook intended to teach you how to lead with gear! Written by Heidi Pesterfield, a rock-climbing instructor for more than 17 years, the book is filled with step-by-step directions that you can trust. Unlike other types of climbing, such as sport and direct-aid climbing, “trad” climbing relies on placing your own gear as you climb from the ground. It’s also one of the more dangerous climbing activities, where expert guidance is a must. Heidi’s invaluable book provides essential details about everything from equipment to rope management to climbing techniques. This guide helps you learn how to safely tie in to the “sharp end” of the rope and lead both single and multipitch trad routes. Dozens of close-up photos, along with fun yet informative drawings, show situations that climbers might encounter and how to deal with them. Plus, in addition to covering the basics, Traditional Lead Climbing offers sidebars that showcase the experience, wisdom, and advice of a number of world-class climbers. Regardless of your climbing background—bouldering, sport climbing, top-roping, or mountaineering—you will learn how to Transition from the gym to the great outdoors Place protection on lead Build multidirectional anchors Navigate routes and climb cracks Explore the multipitch adventure Employ basic self-rescue techniques “If you want the knowledge and nerve to take the sharp end of the rope—buy this book. When your jams meltdown and you yell out ‘falling!’—Heidi’s beta will help you live to tell the tale.” —Timmy O’Neill, world-renowned climber and host of the award-winning film Return2Sender
Author : John Parker
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 189857393X
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (985 download)
Download or read book The Climbing Chronicles written by John Parker and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Climbing Chronicles record the 1940s climbing exploits of Harry Parker. Born in Blackburn on 29 February 1916, Harry started climbing before the war and continued to do so after its conclusion, exploring the Peak District, Wales, the Lake District and Scotland. Each night he noted down his adventures in his 'chronicles', recording the routes he climbed, the walks, bicycle rides and journeys he undertook, and the people he met along the way. Harry's remarkable diaries have now been transcribed by his son John, and the resulting Chronicles offer a first-hand view of climbing and walking in Britain in the 1940s. With an enthusiasm for the outdoors and a sense of fun that springs from every entry, The Climbing Chronicles is an entertaining and fascinating - not to mention quirky - read.
Author : Jack Kantorczyk
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1499033354
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Rock Climbers written by Jack Kantorczyk and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book entitled, "The Rock Climbers," is about a dangerous expedition as seen through the author's eyes. That expedition was started in July, 1974 to Pirin Mountains located in southern Bulgaria, to prepare young people for the difficult tasks in their later years, into climbing the highest mountains in the world. As those people might operate later in the stressful climbing conditions they, need to be check their mental usefulness to stay for a long time in the mountain environment during dangerous climbing. The author, in a very interesting way, described the vagaries of natures and difficult crisis situations they had to defeat as well, he described in details about his personal experience during expedition and accompanying him, were his partners. Even the climbing of vertical walls is extremely serious business, and at the moment of climbing, the border between life and death is often very thin, still wins passion, willingness to compete, check themselves and their own possibilities. Undoubtedly, the book "The Rock Climbers," is worthy of the attention not only people who are interested of mountains and the climbing thrill, but everyone else who likes story associate with mystery and adrenalin feeling.
Author : The American Alpine Club
Publisher : The American Alpine Club
ISBN 13 : 1735695610
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Accidents in North American Climbing 2020 written by The American Alpine Club and published by The American Alpine Club. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE CLIFFS AND MOUNTAINS WE LOVE CAN BE UNFORGIVING. READ ACCIDENTS IN NORTH AMERICAN CLIMBING TO LEARN FROM THE MISTAKES OF OTHERS, SO YOU CAN CLIMB AGAIN TOMORROW. Published annually by the American Alpine Club, Accidents in North American Climbing reports on each year’s most significant and educational climbing accidents. In each case, rangers, rescuers, and other experts analyze what went wrong, helping climbers prevent or survive similar situations in the future. In-depth articles cover more topics, including avalanche safety for mountaineers and ice climbers.
Author : Carol Arnold
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1409295648
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Climbing the Rainbow written by Carol Arnold and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of short stories for children aged 8-11 years, aimed at developing their interest and understanding of physical science. The central character is Luke who is about 11 years old. On his travels he meets various characters, who sometimes take him to far-away and magical places such as the moon, the rainbow, and the Mid-Atlantic ridge. In these places Luke talks to the characters he meets, and starts to understand some of the wonders of science.
