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Author : David Thompson
Publisher : Bantam Books
ISBN 13 : 9780553148213
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)
Download or read book In the Shining Mountains written by David Thompson and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1981-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Boardman
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1906148767
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Shining Mountain written by Peter Boardman and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It's a preposterous plan. Still, if you do get up it, I think it'll be the hardest thing that's been done in the Himalayas.' So spoke Chris Bonington when Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker presented him with their plan to tackle the unclimbed West Wall of Changabang - the Shining Mountain - in 1976. Bonington's was one of the more positive responses; most felt the climb impossibly hard, especially for a two-man, lightweight expedition. This was, after all, perhaps the most fearsome and technically challenging granite wall in the Garhwal Himalaya and an ascent - particularly one in a lightweight style - would be more significant than anything done on Everest at the time. The idea had been Joe Tasker's. He had photographed the sheer, shining, white granite sweep of Changabang's West Wall on a previous expedition and asked Pete to return with him the following year. Tasker contributes a second voice throughout Boardman's story, which starts with acclimatisation, sleeping in a Salford frozen food store, and progresses through three nights of hell, marooned in hammocks during a storm, to moments of exultation at the variety and intricacy of the superb, if punishingly difficult, climbing. It is a story of how climbing a mountain can become an all-consuming goal, of the tensions inevitable in forty days of isolation on a two-man expedition; as well as a record of the moment of joy upon reaching the summit ridge against all odds. First published in 1978, The Shining Mountain is Peter Boardman's first book. It is a very personal and honest story that is also amusing, lucidly descriptive, very exciting, and never anything but immensely readable. It was awarded the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize for literature in 1979, winning wide acclaim. His second book, Sacred Summits, was published shortly after his death in 1982. Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker died on Everest in 1982, whilst attempting a new and unclimbed line. Both men were superb mountaineers and talented writers. Their literary legacy lives on through the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, established by family and friends in 1983 and presented annually to the author or co-authors of an original work which has made an outstanding contribution to mountain literature. For more information about the Boardman Tasker Prize, visit: www.boardmantasker.com
Author : Connie Roop
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780606292566
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sacagawea written by Connie Roop and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Seabrooke Marsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
Download or read book People of the Shining Mountains written by Charles Seabrooke Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eminently readable history of the Ute Indians of Colorado from earliest times to the present.
Author : Joyce Badgley Hunsaker
Publisher : TwoDot
ISBN 13 : 9781585920792
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sacagawea Speaks written by Joyce Badgley Hunsaker and published by TwoDot. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines historical anecdotes, research, and oral traditions to create a first-person account of the life of the young Native American woman who guided Lewis and Clark on their expedition.
Author : Steve House
Publisher : Patagonia
ISBN 13 : 1938340051
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Beyond the Mountain written by Steve House and published by Patagonia. This book was released on 2013-10-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it take to be one of the world's best high-altitude mountain climbers? A lot of fundraising; traveling in some of the world's most dangerous countries; enduring cold bivouacs, searing lungs, and a cloudy mind when you can least afford one. It means learning the hard lessons the mountains teach. Steve House built his reputation on ascents throughout the Alps, Canada, Alaska, the Karakoram and the Himalaya that have expanded possibilities of style, speed, and difficulty. In 2005 Steve and alpinist Vince Anderson pioneered a direct new route on the Rupal Face of 26,600-foot Nanga Parbat, which had never before been climbed in alpine style. It was the third ascent of the face and the achievement earned Steveand Vince the first Piolet d"or (Golden Ice Axe) awarded to North Americans. Steve is an accomplished and spellbinding storyteller in the tradition of Maurice Herzog and Lionel Terray. Beyond the Mountain is a gripping read destined to be a mountain classic. And it
Author : Dale Van Every
Publisher : Bantam Books
ISBN 13 : 9780553206715
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Shining Mountains written by Dale Van Every and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1982-07-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katharine Berry Judson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)
Download or read book Montana written by Katharine Berry Judson and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katharine Berry Judson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)
Download or read book Montana written by Katharine Berry Judson and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colorado Mountain Club
Publisher : Colorado Mountain Club Pack Gu
ISBN 13 : 9781937052041
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Best Estes Park Hikes written by Colorado Mountain Club and published by Colorado Mountain Club Pack Gu. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty of the best hikes near Estes Park, ColoradoThe Best Estes Park Hikes continues the series of best-selling pack guides published by CMC Press. The trails range from short, scenic, and wheelchair-accessible hikes near Estes Park to moderately difficult and even seriously challenging adventures.This fit-in-your-pocket guide will take you from the summit of Twin Sisters Peak, at 11,428 feet - with great walking through fragrant pine forests - to the gently meandering paved trail around Lake Estes, which affords panoramic views of Long's Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park's most famous landmark.With this guide, you will have the opportunity to sample wild raspberries along moderate trails crossed by rushing mountain streams, marvel at butterscotch-scented Ponderosa pines, and test your legs and endurance on a 13-mile loop through fir and pine forests. You will linger for lunch at Gem Lake, ponder the lives of early explorers and homesteaders at Homestead Meadows, soothe your feet in cold mountain streams, and survey your surroundings with a trek to the 11,000-foot Estes Cone.In addition to detailed comments, route descriptions, and directions, each of the 20 hikes contains a map segment, elevation gain, difficulty rating, estimated time of the hike, round-trip distance, and nearest landmark.
