Mountaineering category: 669 books
Mount Hood The Deep Blue Zone
Story of the 2006 Climbing Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Mountaineering crossed a threshold in popular culture when it caught national attention on television in December 2006 with the live coverage of the search for three climbers lost on Oregon's Mount Hood. Literally hundreds of reports, camera crews, live segments, and talking-heads grew out of the...
by Kwasny Dariusz
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Rock climbing is a very healthy and challenging physical activity. In this activity climbers climb up the natural or artificial rocks and try to reach the end point through a pre decided route without falling. There is great variety of rocks in all over the world and to complete all these difficult...
Mountains of the Mind
Adventures in Reaching the Summit
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
The basis for the new documentary film, Mountain: A Breathtaking Voyage into the Extreme. Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert McFarlane reveals how the mystery of the world’s highest places has came to grip...
One More Step
My Story of Living with Cerebral Palsy, Climbing Kilimanjaro, and Surviving the Hardest Race on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
In this exhilarating and inspirational memoir, the first man with cerebral palsy to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and complete the brutal Ironman competition shares the exhilarating adventure that led to his achievements—redefining our ideas of normal and proving that life is never truly limited for any...
by C. E. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
“Rock Climbing in Lakeland” is a classic guide to rock-climbing in the Lake District, England. It includes interesting information about this beautiful part of the country, as well as detailed instructions on how to prepare and where to go for a good day's climbing. This book is highly recommended...
by Alex Honnold
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Including two new chapters on Alex Honnold’s free solo ascent of the iconic 3,000-foot El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
On June 3rd, 2017, Alex Honnold became the first person to free solo Yosemite's El Capitan—to scale the wall without rope, a partner, or any protective gear—completing...
Everest the Cruel Way
Climbing Mount Everest at its hardest: the 1980 winter attempt on the infamous west ridge
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
On 30 January 1981 Joe Tasker and Ade Burgess stood at 24,000 feet on the west ridge of Mount Everest. Below them were their companions, some exhausted, some crippled by illness, all virtually incapacitated. Further progress seemed impossible. Everest the Cruel Way is Joe Tasker's story of an attempt...
The Endless Knot
K2 Mountain of Dreams and Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
'A monumental book … I defy anyone to read it and remain unmoved.' Stephen Venables, Alpine Journal Acclaimed as one of the most powerful accounts of mountain adventure and tragedy ever written, The Endless Knot is a harrowing account of the 1986 K2 disaster. A rare first-hand account from a survivor...
The Villain
The Life of Don Whillans
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Don Whillans has an iconic significance for generations of climbers. His epoch-making first ascent of Annapurna's South Face, achieved with Dougal Haston in 1970, remains one of the most impressive climbs ever made - but behind this and all his other formidable achievements lies a tough, recalcitrant...
Above & Beyond
Around the world in twelve months, scaling ist highest peaks
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2011
Death Grip
A Climber's Escape from Benzo Madness
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Death Grip chronicles a top climber's near-fatal struggle with anxiety and depression, and his nightmarish journey through the dangerous world of prescription drugs. Matt Samet lived to climb, and craved the challenge, risk, and exhilaration of conquering sheer rock faces around the United States...
Ron Fawcett - Rock Athlete
The Story of a Climbing Legend
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Ron Fawcett is a natural-born climber. In 1969, while still at school in his native Yorkshire, he tied into a climbing rope for the first time and was instantly hooked. From that moment on, it seemed nothing else in his life mattered nearly as much as his next vertical fix. Ten years later, Fawcett...
Statement
The Ben Moon Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
On 14 June 1990, at Raven Tor in the Derbyshire Peak District, twenty-four-year-old Ben Moon squeezed his feet into a pair of rock shoes, tied in to his rope, chalked his fingers and pulled on to the wickedly overhanging, zebra-striped wall of limestone. Two minutes later he had made rock-climbing...
Sacred Summits
The Carstensz Pyramid, Kangchenjunga and Gauri Sankar
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Mountaintops have long been seen as sacred places, home to gods and dreams. In one climbing year Peter Boardman visited three very different sacred mountains. He began on the South Face of the Carstensz Pyramid in New Guinea. This is the highest point between the Andes and the Himalaya, and one of...