High Andes

Author : John Biggar
Publisher : Andes
ISBN 13 : 191690257X
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The High Andes (High Andes North, High Andes South) written by John Biggar and published by Andes. This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Andes - A Guide for Climbers' is the only comprehensive guidebook about the peaks of the Andes. This is the 5th English edition of the only complete guidebook to the peaks of the Andes. It covers many areas not described in any other source. Previous editions have been translated into French, Spanish, Polish and Czech. The author, John Biggar, is a very experienced high-altitude mountaineer who has been climbing and skiing in the Andes for 30 years and has made ascents of over 350 peaks higher than 5000m. The 5th edition includes route information for all 100 of the major 6000m mountains, plus over 300 other peaks. With over 200 diagrams, 270 photos and 80 maps it also gives the best ski-mountaineering peaks in over 10 areas across 5 countries. Because an unforgettable journey starts with a thorough preparation, find out everything you need to know about climbing and skiing the Andes in this guide ! ABOUT THE AUTHOR John Biggar is a professional mountaineering instructor based in Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. His first publication was an internal report for the nuclear physics department at Edinburgh University, entitled "Anisotropies in the Sequential Break-up of Li6". Since those days John has done little nuclear physics but has been climbing and ski-mountaineering in the Andes a lot. He has climbed many of the highest peaks, including 19 of the 20 highest, made over 100 ascents of 6000m peaks, plus 180 ascents of Andean 5000m peaks. He has made first ascents of six 6000m peaks and also made the first ski descent of Domuyo, the highest peak in Patagonia. A professional mountaineering instructor, he runs a business which specialises in mountaineering, skiing and ski-mountaineering expeditions to South America.

Author : Jon Fjeldså
Publisher : ISBS
ISBN 13 : 9788788757163
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birds of the High Andes written by Jon Fjeldså and published by ISBS. This book was released on 1990 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by two of the leading explorers in the birdlife of the High Andes, this book sets new standards in this field. The book is illustrated by Jon Fjeldsaa, one of the World's most gifted bird artists, who again has proved his accuracy with the fine plumage details as well as masterly renditions of the general impression and shape. Almost one tenth of the World's nine thousand bird species are illustrated, many of them for the first time. Both males, females, young, and distinct subspecies are shown. The 64 beautifully composed colour plates depict over two thousand plumages. This is supplemented by several hundred line-drawings of the birds. Today this book is regarded as the "bible" in Andean birds and more than 4000 copies have been sold. Birds of the High Andes is published in co-operation with the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen, where one third of the retail price for the books is spent on further investigations in Andean birds. A colour prospectus is available upon request. 64 colour plates. Numerous line drawings. Distribution map to each species.

Author : Bob Villarreal
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665557125
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clawing for the Stars: a Solo Climber in the Highest Andes written by Bob Villarreal and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author describes his climbing adventures prior to his solo mountaineering days. He began with mountains in Ecuador guided by American Alpine Institute, culminating in a climb of the highest peak in the country, Chimborazo (20,564 feet), in 1989. Because of its height and its proximity to the Equator, it is the highest mountain on Earth when measured from sea level and closest to the Sun when measured from the Earth's core. The next year, he went to Bolivia with the same company and climbed peaks there, the most notable, Illimani (21,122 feet). In 1991, he journeyed to Argentina to attempt the highest mountain in the Andes, Aconcagua (22,841 feet), by the difficult Polish Glacier Direct route, once more with AAI. After that expedition, he felt he had the skills to try things on his own, and he tells of certain of those climbs in his, "Clawing for the Stars. A Solo Climber in the Highest Andes".

Author : Edward Arthur Fitz Gerald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Highest Andes written by Edward Arthur Fitz Gerald and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Scott P. Werther
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
ISBN 13 : 9780516243290
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alive! written by Scott P. Werther and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the true story of survivors of a plane crash in the Andes.

Author : John Biggar
Publisher : Andes
ISBN 13 : 9780953608720
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Andes written by John Biggar and published by Andes. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive climbing guide to the mountains of The Andes, from Venezuela to Tierra Del Fuego. It features route descriptions for over 300 peaks with over half illustrated by a photo-diagram and full colour maps.

Author : Committee on Cooperation in Latin America
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indians of the High Andes: Report of the Commission Appointed by the Committee on Cooperation in Latin America to Study the Indians of the Andean Highland, with a View to Establishing a Cooperative Christian Enterprise. W. Stanley Rycroft, Chairman of the Commission and Editor of the Report written by Committee on Cooperation in Latin America and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cathy Biggar
Publisher : Andes
ISBN 13 : 9780953608713
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Andes written by Cathy Biggar and published by Andes. This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive trekking guide to the Andes. Includes descriptions for over 30 of the most popular treks plus many interesting day walks in all 7 countries the mountain chain of the Andes. The guidebook contains descriptions for 33 main treks Every trek included has a sketch map of the area and a trek profile indicating heights. Each trek is graded and summarised for duration, distance, total ascent and highest point. There is an introductory chapter on trekking in the Andes comparing the different areas and giving advice on planning a trek, and general travel advice for South America. Each area chapter also has a brief introduction giving details of climate and travel. Important towns for accessing the treks are described, concentrating on information relevant to the trekker. Appendices include flora and fauna information and a glossary of Spanish/English terms relevant to trekkers.

Author : Adrian J. Pearce
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 178735735X
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide written by Adrian J. Pearce and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowhere on Earth is there an ecological transformation so swift and so extreme as between the snow-line of the high Andes and the tropical rainforest of Amazonia. The different disciplines that research the human past in South America have long tended to treat these two great subzones of the continent as self-contained enough to be taken independently of each other. Objections have repeatedly been raised, however, to warn against imagining too sharp a divide between the people and societies of the Andes and Amazonia, when there are also clear indications of significant connections and transitions between them. Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide brings together archaeologists, linguists, geneticists, anthropologists, ethnohistorians and historians to explore both correlations and contrasts in how the various disciplines see the relationship between the Andes and Amazonia, from deepest prehistory up to the European colonial period. The volume emerges from an innovative programme of conferences and symposia conceived explicitly to foster awareness, discussion and co-operation across the divides between disciplines. Underway since 2008, this programme has already yielded major publications on the Andean past, including History and Language in the Andes (2011) and Archaeology and Language in the Andes (2012).

Author : Daniel W. Gade
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299161248
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature and Culture in the Andes written by Daniel W. Gade and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text reveals the intimate and unexpected relationships of plants, animals and people in western South America. Daniel Gade encourages the reader to look beyond the obvious to see the true complexity of ecological relationships.