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  • Structured Chaos

    The unusual life of a climber

    de Victor Saunders ...
    'Mountains have given structure to my adult life. I suppose they have also given me purpose, though I still can't guess what that purpose might be. And although I have glimpsed the view from the mountaintop and I still have some memory of what direction life is meant to be going in, I usually lose sight of the wood for the trees. In other words, I, like most of us, have lived a life of structured ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • No Place to Fall

    Superalpinism in the High Himalaya

    de Victor Saunders ...
    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

    de Victor Saunders ...
    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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  • Une histoire d'échecs

    La vie chaotique d'un alpiniste

    de Victor Saunders ...
    Une ode aux petites choses qui comptent vraiment en montagne : être au bon endroit, au bon moment, avec les bonnes personnes. Et profiter de la vue.Une histoire d’échecs est le récit autobiographique du célèbre alpiniste britannique Victor Saunders. Grimpeur hors pair, guide de montagne et explorateur de sommets lointains, Victor Saunders a eu un prestigieuse carrière d’alpiniste qui l’a mené à ... Leer más

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    Structured Chaos

    The unusual life of a climber

    de Victor Saunders ...
    Narrado por Stewart Crank ...

    Completo

    6 hora 43 minutos

    Winner: Mountain Literature (Non Fiction) The Jon Whyte Award, Banff Mountain Book Competition‘Mountains have given structure to my adult life. I suppose they have also given me purpose, though I still can’t guess what that purpose might be. And although I have glimpsed the view from the mountaintop and I still have some memory of what direction life is meant to be going in, I usually lose sight ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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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

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Shishapangma

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

    de Doug Scott, Alex MacIntyre ...
    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

    $6.86 USD

  • Sacred Summits

    Kangchenjunga, the Carstensz Pyramid, and Gauri Sankar

    de Peter Boardman ...
    Mountaintops have long been seen as sacred places, home to gods and dreams. In one climbing year Peter Boardman visited three very different sacred mountains. He began on the South Face of the Carstensz Pyramid in New Guinea. This is the highest point between the Andes and the Himalaya, and one of the most inaccessible, rising above thick jungle inhabited by warring Stone Age tribes.During the ... Leer más

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  • Kingdoms of Experience

    Everest, the Unclimbed Ridge

    de Andrew Greig ...
    A novice's tale of scaling Everest: "Recommended for all armchair adventurers who have ever wondered what it would be like to climb in the Himalayas."— Geographical MagazineThe last attempt to conquer Everest by the unclimbed northeast ridge had ended in failure and tragedy, with the deaths of two great climbers, Joe Tasker and Pete Boardman. Now, in March 1985, Mal Duff would lead a new ... 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

    $12.99 USD

  • Everest the Cruel Way

    The audacious winter attempt of the West Ridge

    de Joe Tasker ...
    On 30 January 1981 Joe Tasker and Ade Burgess stood at 24,000 feet on the west ridge of Mount Everest. Below them were their companions, some exhausted, some crippled by illness, all virtually incapacitated. Further progress seemed impossible. Everest the Cruel Way is Joe Tasker's story of an attempt to climb the highest mountain on earth - an attempt which pushed a group of Britain's finest ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro