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Early Days in the Range of LightIt's 1873. Modern climbing gear and Gore-Tex shells are a century away, but the high mountains still capture the imagination of intrepid climbers.… |
£14.99(Paperback) |
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No Way DownIt's the summit of K2, 1 August 2008. An exhausted band of climbers pump their fists into the clear blue sky - joining the elite who have conquered… |
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The Eiger ObsessionIn the 1960s, an American named John Harlin II changed the face of Alpine climbing. Harlin successfully summitted some of the most treacherous… |
£8.99(Paperback) |
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Thin White LineBy Andy Cave In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang but losing his friend and climbing partner in… |
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Tomaz HumarIn August, 2005, Toma Humar was trapped on a narrow ledge at 5900 metres on the formidable Rupal Face of Nanga Parbat. He had been attempting a new… |
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The Mammoth Book of on the EdgeBy Jon E. Lewis No one sees clearer than an individual whose life is hanging by the finger tips on the edge of an abyss. Probing the furthest reaches of human daring… |
£7.99(Paperback) |
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Touching the VoidBy Joe Simpson "Touching the Void" is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner,… |
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Fallen GiantsBy Maurice Isserman, Stewart Angas Weaver The first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa teammate Tenzing Norgay is a familiar saga, but less well… |
£25.00(Hardback) |
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The Boys of EverestBy Clint Willis "The Boys of Everest" tells the story of a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first… |
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Forever On The MountainBy James Tabor In 1967, seven young men, members of a twelve-man expedition led by twenty-four-year-old Joe Wilcox, were stranded on Alaska's Mount McKinley in a… |
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