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The Southern Upland Way
Cicerone Press 2007; US$ 17.50Walk the Southern Upland Way, Scotland's Coast-to-Coast Walk. The route runs for 212 miles (341km) from Portpatrick on the west coast to Cockburnspath on the east. The guidebook divides the walk into 13 stages of varying length that would fill a two-week walking holiday. Possibilities for shorter walks along the Way are also described. more...
Munro Almanac
Neil Wilson Publishing 2011; US$ 11.65This guide to all of Scotland's Munros details the new list of 285 peaks and their localities, Gaelic pronunciation, height, and climbing routes with times for both ascent and descent. Maps and photographs illustrate the region with hints on where to stay, OS references and difficulty ratings. more...
Hiking and Traveling the Blue Ridge Parkway
The University of North Carolina Press 2013; US$ 18.00This comprehensive guidebook provides a detailed description of every official trail along the Blue Ridge Parkway. But that's just the beginning: veteran hiker Leonard M. Adkins includes information on every trail that touches the Parkway, including the Appalachian Trail, the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, and other public pathways on national park, state... more...
Hamish's Mountain Walk
Sandstone Press Ltd 2013; US$ 21.86Hamish Brown?s account of his epic walk has been the inspiration for generations of hillwalkers. Sandstone Press is proud to present, not a mere reprint, but a complete reimagining of the book in a modern font, with a new introduction and appendix, and a new, extended colour plate section all provided by Hamish Brown. This will be a book that every... more...
No Place to Fall
Vertebrate Publishing 2013; US$ 7.28No Place to Fall is Victor Saunder?s follow up to his Boardman Tasker Prize winning debut book Elusive Summits. Covering three expeditions to familiar and unfamiliar ranges in Nepal, the Karakoram and the Kumaon, each shares the exhilaration of attempting new alpine-style routes on terrifyingly committing mountains. In 1989 Victor Saunders and Steve... more...
Camping by the Waterside
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 20.99This stylish and inspiring book contains all the information campers need to make the most of the wonderful waterside locations throughout the UK and Ireland. Covering all kinds of camping (caravan, campsite and wild), the book starts by showing how to plan your trip, what gear to take and how to get stuck into all the fantastic water-based activities... more...
The Eiger Obsession
Simon & Schuster 2007; US$ 26.00In the 1960s an American named John Harlin II changed the face of Alpine climbing. Gutsy and gorgeous -- he was known as "the blond god" -- Harlin successfully summitted some of the most treacherous mountains in Europe. But it was the north face of the Eiger that became Harlin's obsession. Living with his wife and two children in Leysin, Switzerland,... more...
Sir Edmund Hillary
Infobase Publishing 2000; US$ 30.00After two years of training with the British Mount Everest Expedition, Edmund Hillary, along with Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, completed the challenging climb to become the first men to reach the summit of the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, on May 29, 1953. But this historic achievement didn't mean the end of Hillary's adventures.... more...
Early Days in the Range of Light
Counterpoint 2009; US$ 29.95It's 1873. Gore-Tex shells and aluminum climbing gear are a century away, but the high mountains still demand your attention. Imagine the stone in your hands and thousands of feet of open air below you, with only a wool jacket to weather a storm and no rope to catch a fall. Daniel Arnold did more than imagine ? he spent three years retracing the... more...
Grasping for Heaven
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 35.00Mountain climbing is a difficult sport, at best, and its practitioners are unique. Here is a collection of interviews with 15 famed mountain climbers and three historians of the sport. Covering international climbing in all its aspects, including rock-face climbing, ice climbing, and high-summit ascension, these mountaineers relate their experiences,... more...









