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Via Ferratas of the Italian Dolomites
Cicerone Press 2009; US$ 21.80Guidebook to via ferrata routes in Northern, Central and Eastern Italian Dolomites, Europe. Via ferrata climbing -- using routes with fixed cables, ladders and bridges -- is a great way for walkers and scramblers (with a head for heights) to get to places usually reserved for expert rock climbers. more...
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$ 8.99April 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...
Eiger Dreams
Pan Macmillan 2012; US$ 8.95No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska's notorious Devils Thumb. In Pakistan, the fearsome K2... 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 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 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...
Fall of the Phantom Lord
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 15.00In 1989, while attempting a new route on a difficult overhanging rock face, climber Dan Osman fell. Again and again, protected by the rope, he fell. He decided then that it would not be in climbing but in falling that he would embrace his fear--bathe in it, as he says, and move beyond it. A captivating exploration of the daredevil world of rock climbing,... more...
Climbing Everest
Random House Group Ltd 2013; US$ 1.26Released to coincide with the 60th Anniversary of the first ever ascent of Mount Everest and updated with a new introduction from Bear Grylls. On the 29th May 1953 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made history as they took their first triumphant steps on the top of the world. On 16 May 1998, Bear Grylls followed those... more...









