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  • One Mountain Thousand Summits

    The Untold Story of Tragedy and True Heroism on K2

    The account of one of the deadliest and most mysterious tragedies in mountaineering history-the 2008 K2 disaster.One Mountain Thousand Summits reveals the true story of the K2 tragedy that claimed the lives of eleven men. Based on his numerous trips to Nepal and in-depth interviews he conducted with the survivors, the families of the lost climbers, and the Sherpa guides whose heroic efforts saved ... Leer más

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  • Love, Partnership, or Singleton on the Autism Spectrum

    In an immensely varied and thoughtful collection of true life reflections on love, marriage and the single life, 26 authors with autism share their experiences and knowledge about successful (and unsuccessful) relationships. Digging deep into the many and varying ways in which autism affects feelings and relationships with others, these honest and intelligent testimonies give the insider's ... Leer más

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  • No Place to Fall

    Superalpinism in the High Himalaya

    No Place to Fall is Victor Saunder's follow up to his Boardman Tasker Prize winning debut book Elusive Summits. Covering three expeditions to familiar and unfamiliar ranges in Nepal, the Karakoram and the Kumaon, each shares the exhilaration of attempting new alpine-style routes on terrifyingly committing mountains. In 1989 Victor Saunders and Steve Sustad completed a difficult route on the West ... Leer más

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  • Elusive Summits

    Four expeditions in the Karakoram

    Elusive Summits is the award winning first book by British mountaineer Victor Saunders, winner of the 1990 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. Documenting climbs in the 1980s, at a time when the greatest mountains in the greatest ranges had been climbed by numerous routes, collected like sets of stamps and written about extensively by the world's leading climbers, Saunders and his ... Leer más

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  • Thieves, Liars and Mountaineers

    On the 8,000m peak circus in Pakistan

    de Mark Horrell ...
    Series series Footsteps on the Mountain Diaries
    This is the tale of Mark Horrell’s not-so-nearly ascent of Gasherbrum in Pakistan, of how one man’s boredom and frustration was conquered by a gutsy combination of exhaustion, cowardice, and sheer mountaineering incompetence.He made not one, not two, but three intrepid assaults, some of which got quite a distance beyond Base Camp, and overcame many perilous circumstances along the way. The ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Near Death in the Mountains

    True Stories of Disaster and Survival

    Edición de Cecil Kuhne ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    “He wrapped the rope around his body, got ready to rappel and leaned back. Standing about five feet from him, I heard a sharp scraping, Suddenly Ed was flying. I could see him fall, wordless, fifty feet free, then strike the steep ice below…he was sliding and bouncing down. He passed out of sight, but I heard his body bouncing. There wasn't a chance of his stopping for 4,000 feet.”—From David ... Leer más

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  • Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters

    The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters

    Winner of the 2007 Banff Mountain Festival Book Awards Grand Prize (The Phyllis & Don Munday Award): "A riveting account of a long-ago mountaineering disaster."—TimeIn 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 vicious arctic storm. All seven perished on what remains the most tragic expedition in ... Leer más

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  • The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2

    The Death of an American Adventurer on K2

    “A fascinating tale. . . . Readers who are into high-altitude adventure stories won’t be disappointed.”—Associated PressIn 1939 the Savage Mountain claimed its first victim. Born into vast wealth yet uneasy with a life of leisure, Dudley Wolfe, of Boston and Rockport, Maine, set out to become the first man to climb K2, the world’s second-highest mountain and, in the opinion of mountaineers, an ... Leer más

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  • Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow

    The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure

    de Maria Coffey ...
    Maria Coffey's Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow is a powerful, affecting and important book that exposes the far reaching personal costs of extreme adventure.Without risk, say mountaineers, there would be none of the self-knowledge that comes from pushing life to its extremes. For them, perhaps, it is worth the cost. But when tragedy strikes, what happens to the people left behind? Why would ... Leer más

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  • On the Ridge Between Life and Death

    A Climbing Life Reexamined

    de David Roberts ...
    What compels mountain climbers to take the risks that they do? Is it the thrill in the physical accomplishment, in managing to defy the odds, or both -- and why do they continue to do what they do in the face of such great danger? In On the Ridge Between Life and Death, David Roberts confronts these questions head-on as he recounts the exhilarating highs and desperate lows of his climbing career. ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • High Crimes

    The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed

    de Michael Kodas ...
    **High Crimes is journalist Michael Kodas's gripping account of life on top of the world—where man is every bit as deadly as Mother Nature."Well written, and as deftly plotted as the finest mystery novel, Kodas brings to life a disturbing picture of society at high altitude." ―Austin Chronicle**In the years following the publication of Into Thin Air, much has changed on Mount Everest. Among all ... Leer más

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