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  • Vertical Pleasure

    Early climbs in Britain, the Alps, the Andes and the Himalaya/The secret life of a taxman

    de Mick Fowler ...
    Vertical Pleasure is the first set of climbing memoirs from Mick Fowler - Britain's hardest-climbing tax inspector, the 'Mountaineer's Mountaineer' and recipient of the Piolet d'Or. Vertical Pleasure begins with Fowler's early teenage years on easy British rock and Swiss 4000m peaks under the guidance of his father. A frenzied spell follows, with climbing worked in around jobs, discos and ... Leer más

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  • No Easy Way

    The challenging life of the climbing taxman

    de Mick Fowler ...
    'If we were guaranteed success in everything we tried then life would be pretty boring.' Mainstream news reports about climbing are dominated by action from the world's highest mountains, more often than not focusing on tragedy and controversy. Far removed from this high-altitude circus, a group of visionary and specialist mountaineers are seeking out eye-catching objectives in the most remote ... Leer más

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  • On Thin Ice

    Alpine Climbs in the Americas, Asia and the Himalaya

    de Mick Fowler ...
    On Thin Ice is Mick Fowler's second set of climbing memoirs, following Vertical Pleasure. Here, the celebrated mountaineer records his expeditions since 1990. Despite work and family commitments, he has maintained a regular series of 'big trips' to challenging objectives around the world with a sequence of major successes: Taweche (1995, with Pat Littlejohn), Changabang (1997, with Steve Sustad, ... Leer más

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    No Easy Way

    The challenging life of the climbing taxman

    de Mick Fowler ...
    Narrado por Christopher Knight ...

    Completo

    10 hora 53 minutos

    ‘If we were guaranteed success in everything we tried then life would be pretty boring.’Mainstream news reports about climbing are dominated by action from the world’s highest mountains, more often than not focusing on tragedy and controversy. Far removed from this high-altitude circus, a group of visionary and specialist mountaineers are seeking out eye-catching objectives in the most remote ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    No easy way

    Narrado por Mauro Abbatescianna ...

    Completo

    10 hora 38 minutos

    Attualmente la forma di alpinismo più seguito è quello che si svolge sulle montagne più alte del mondo, gli Ottomila dell'Himalaya. Le notizie, un tempo prerogativa delle riviste specializzate, adesso dilagano tramite i mezzi di comunicazione di massa, notoriamente più interessati a pubblicare notizie di incidenti e soccorsi piuttosto che un alpinismo audace e di qualità. Al di fuori delle ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Survey Methodology

    Series Libro 561 - Wiley Series in Survey Methodology
    Praise for the First Edition:"The book makes a valuable contribution by synthesizing current research and identifying areas for future investigation for each aspect of the survey process."—Journal of the American Statistical Association"Overall, the high quality of the text material is matched by the quality of writing . . ."—Public Opinion Quarterly". . . it should find an audience everywhere ... Leer más

    $83.00 USD

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    Tides

    A climber's voyage

    de Nick Bullock ...
    Narrado por Nick Bullock ...

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    11 hora 44 minutos

    Winner, Mountain Literature (Non-Fiction) Award, Banff Mountain Book Festival 2018Nick Bullock is a climber who lives in a small green van, flitting between Llanberis, Wales, and Chamonix in the French Alps. Tides, Nick's second book, is the much-anticipated follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut Echoes.Now retired from the strain of work as a prison officer, Nick is free to climb. A ... ... 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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  • 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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  • 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

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  • Shishapangma

    The alpine-style first ascent of the South-West Face

    In 1982, following the relaxation of access restrictions to Tibet, six climbers set off for the Himalaya to explore the little-known Shishapangma massif in Tibet. Dealing with a chaotic build-up and bureaucratic obstacles so huge they verged on comical, the mountaineers gained access to Shishapangma's unclimbed South-West Face where Doug Scott, Alex MacIntyre and Roger Baxter-Jones made one of the ... Leer más

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  • The Beckoning Silence

    de Joe Simpson ...
    Joe Simpson has experienced a life filled with adventure but marred by death. He has endured the painful attrition of climbing friends in accidents, calling into question the perilously exhilarating activity to which he has devoted his life. Probability is inexorably closing in. The tragic loss of a close friend forces a momentous decision upon him. It is time to turn his back on the mountains ... Leer más

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