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Addicted to Danger
Atria Books 2010; Not AvailableAdventurist Jim Wickwire has lived life on the edge -- literally. An eyewitness to glory, terror, and tragedy above 20,000 feet, he has braved bitter cold, blinding storms, and avalanches to become what the Los Angeles Times calls "one of America's most extraordinary and accomplished high-altitude mountaineers." Although his incredible exploits... more...
Halfway to Heaven
Atria Books 2009; Not AvailableFat, forty-four, father of three sons, and facing a vasectomy, Mark Obmascik would never have guessed that his next move would be up a 14,000-foot mountain. But when his twelve-year-old son gets bitten by the climbing bug at summer camp, Obmascik can't resist the opportunity for some high-altitude father-son bonding by hiking a peak together. After... more...
To the End of the Earth
St. Martin's Press 2009; US$ 7.99April 2009 is the one-hundredth anniversary of perhaps the greatest controversy in the history of exploration. Did U.S. Naval Commander Robert Peary and his team dogsled to the North Pole in thirty-seven days in 1909? Or, as has been challenged, was this speed impossible, and was he a cheat? In 2005, polar explorer Tom Avery and his team set out... more...
Into Thin Air
Pan Macmillan UK 1999; US$ 15.18Jon Krakauer's acclaimed account of a disastrous expedition on Mt Everest This is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended the worst single-season death toll in the peak's history. In... more...
The White Spider
HarperCollins Publishers 2010; Not AvailableA classic of mountaineering literature, this is the story of the harrowing first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the most legendary and terrifying climb in history. more...
The Mammoth Book of Mountain Disasters
Constable & Robinson 2010; US$ 11.65Caught way up on the mountain, no one is safe, from the archetypal nightmare of Tony Kurtz, seen to freeze to death by his stranded rescuers as he hung off the Eiger, to events that unfolded on the Grand Teton, where rescuers narrowly escaped being clubbed to death by their reluctant rescuees. This collection of 35 first-hand accounts will shock... more...
The Ascent of Everest
Hodder & Stoughton 2013; Not AvailableWhen Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay stepped onto the summit of Mount Everest on 29 May 1953 they caught the imagination of the world in a way that was to be unmatched until man stood on the surface of the Moon. more...
The Call of Everest
National Geographic Society 2013; US$ 28.00Gripping and sumptuous, this is the definitive book on the history, mystique, and science of Mount Everest, including how climate change is impacting the world's tallest mountain. In 1963, the American Mount Everest Expedition made mountaineering history. It was the first American venture to successfully scale the legendary peak and the first... more...
Extreme Adventures
Transworld 2013; US$ 25.33Andy Torbet has been to some of the world's most dangerous places, in his previous career as a soldier and now as an explorer and tv presenter. But you don't need to go to far flung corners of the globe to find real adventure and to push yourself to the very edge. Here in Britain, between towering cliffs and stormy seas, lie some of the most exciting... more...
The Ascent of Everest
Hodder & Stoughton 2013; US$ 20.83When Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay stepped onto the summit of Mount Everest on 29 May 1953 they caught the imagination of the world in a way that was to be unmatched until man stood on the surface of the Moon. more...









