In Monte Visos Horizon

Author : Will McLewin
Publisher : Menasha Ridge Press
ISBN 13 : 9780948153099
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Monte Viso's Horizon written by Will McLewin and published by Menasha Ridge Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will McLewin is a British mountaineer who has climbed without guides, the Alpine 4000 metre peaks. His narrative centres on the essential character of the climbs and on events on the day.

Author : Kev Reynolds
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 1849654883
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Swiss Alps written by Kev Reynolds and published by Cicerone Press Limited. This book was released on 2014-01-08 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive book is an excellent planning resource for those who wish to venture into the Swiss Alps. Whether you are planning a walk, scramble, climb or ski tour this larger format guide describes each mountain area throughout Switzerland - the peaks, passes, valleys and bases - to help readers identify the best destinations for their chosen mountain activity. Dozens of individual valleys are described, together with the mountains that wall them, with recommendations given for their finest walks, treks and climbs. Working eastwards across the country, this guide is divided into seven chapters: Chablais Alps, Pennine Alp, Lepontine and Adula Alps, Bernina, Bregaglia and Albula Alps, Bernese Alps, Central Swiss Alps and the Silvretta and Ratikon Alps, each devoted to a specific range or group of connecting ranges. However, this is not a route guide and detailed descriptions are not provided. The aim of the book is to inspire as well as inform; to show first-time visitors just what the Swiss Alps have to offer and provide a new perspective for those who have been before.

Author : Peter Gillman
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 1594854734
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wildest Dream written by Peter Gillman and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2001-09-14 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Chronicles all three of Mallory's Everest expeditions * Illuminates how Mallory reconciled his ambitions on Everest with his unquestioned love for his wife and family Since the discovery in 1999 of George Mallory's body on Everest, controversy has raged over whether Mallory and Andrew Irvine could have summitted the mountain. Every detail of the climb has been dissected and Mallory's skill as a mountaineer has been hotly debated. Observing the debate, Peter and Leni Gillman felt that the essence of who Mallory was as an individual had been lost. In The Wildest Dream they offer the most comprehensive biography ever written about one of the 20th century's most intriguing personalities. Exploring Mallory's early years, the Gillmans take the reader to Cambridge and Bloomsbury where Mallory consorted with some of the most colorful literary and artistic figures of Edwardian England: Rupert Brooke, James and Lytton Strachey, Maynard and Geoffrey Keynes, and Duncan Grant, among others. The Wildest Dream moves on to examine exactly what Mallory accomplished as a climber, evaluating the quality of his routes and skills within the context of climbing in the early 1900s. At the heart of this biography, and of Mallory's life, is his wife, Ruth. The letters they exchanged during the many separations caused by World War I and three Everest expeditions reveal the depth of their commitment to each other and the unwavering support and strength Ruth offered George. The Everest expeditions are also insightfully rendered, offering perspective on criticisms levied at Mallory after the 1921 and 1922 attempts. The authors examine how Mallory, a dedicated husband and father, arrived at his fateful decision to participate in the doomed 1924 expedition and why he continued to press for a summit attempt when the odds seemed stacked against him. As Mallory once declared, a climber was what he was, and this is what climbers did; this was how they fulfilled their wildest dreams.

Author : Peter Boardman
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 9780898864366
Total Pages : 938 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boardman Tasker Omnibus written by Peter Boardman and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects four out-of-print classic climbing books: Tasker's Savage Arena and Everest the Cruel Way, and Boardman's The Shining Mountain and Sacred Summits.

Author : Catherine Moorehead
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788855949
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mountain Guru written by Catherine Moorehead and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doug Scott was a legend among mountaineers. His expeditions, undertaken over a period of five decades, are unparalleled achievements. This book describes the extraordinary drama of them all, from the Himalaya to New Zealand, Patagonia, Yosemite and Alaska. It includes his famous 'epic' on The Ogre, one of the hardest peaks in the world to climb, his ascent of Kangchenjunga without supplementary oxygen and his ascent, with Dougal Haston, of Everest in 1975. Catherine Moorehead also uncovers the elusive man behind the obsessive mountaineer. From his rumbustious youth in Nottingham through two tempestuous marriages to a secure third marriage, she shows how Scott matured in thought and action as his formidable global reputation increased. In doing so she reveals him to be a clash of opposites, an infuriating monomaniac who took extraordinary risks yet who developed a deep interest in Buddhism and inspired widespread affection. Scott spent almost as long as his climbing career in founding and developing Community Action Nepal, providing schools and health posts in remote parts of Nepal, where he is still much revered. Doug Scott died in 2020.

Author : Nick Kelso
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1409279057
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alpine Game written by Nick Kelso and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Kelso's fascinating and entertaining account of 25 years of amateur climbing in the Alps. There are 82 mountains in the European Alps that rise above 4000m and climbing them all is a lifelong persuit and challenge for many people today. This is the account of one such quest. The climbs and adventures described are well within the scope of the average climber and offer an insight into modern Alpinism, as practised by ordinary people with real jobs and families

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The alpine journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alpine Club (London, England)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers written by Alpine Club (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peaks, Passes and Glaciers written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Whymper
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69 written by Edward Whymper and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: