Celebrating a tradition of bravery, thirst for knowledge, and pursuit of glory, this book tells the stories of the most famous mountaineers in history and explores the climbs that they conquered. Mountaineers is filled with stirring tales of adventure and intriguing characters, from the Brits who insisted on hauling cases of vintage champagne up to Everest base camp in 1924, to the Italian Duke of the Abruzzi who took 10 iron bedsteads up Alaska's Malaspina glacier. It chronicles the stories of the pioneers who first conquered the heights of this planet, from Otzi the Iceman to Edmund Hillary, important scientific discoveries that were made along the way, and accounts of great bravery, fellowship, altruism, and humour in the face of adversity. The book features fact files for over 100 famous mountaineers and stunning photography of the mountains they scaled, and contains rare artefacts that were found on their journeys, previously unpublished photographs, and specially commissioned route maps to recreate history's greatest ascents. The book also charts the development of technology, equipment, and techniques from the tweed hacking jackets and pipe-smoking of the early mountaineers to the sophisticated kit being used today.

In Thin White Line, Andy Cave charts a journey into not only the wild landscapes through which he travels, but also into the mind of an extreme mountaineer.
Thin White Line is the sequel to Learning to Breathe, Andy Cave's bestselling debut book and winner of both the Boardman Tasker Prize and the Adventure Travel Award at the Banff International Festival.
In 1997, Andy Cave returned from the Himalayas, having climbed the stupendous north face of Changabang, but losing his friend and climbing partner in the process. Traumatized by the savage ordeal, he must examine his relationship with the mountains that have defined his life so far. Will he have the courage to undertake such a challenge again? Does he want to? Thin White Line charts his struggle towards finding an answer. It is as much a journey into the mind of an extreme mountaineer as it is into the wild landscapes through which he travels.
In a nail-biting narrative set in Patagonia, Norway and Alaska, Cave tackles the severest challenges modern alpinism can pose. Juxtaposed with the stark beauty of the environment are the colourful characters populating his stories, from the adventurers around him, past and present, to the pioneer aviators who get him and his kind to those impossibly remote places. He vividly recreates the joy and despair of climbing, building the book to a desperate finale that lays bare the fragility of our carefully constructed convictions.

'What I've learned from climbing mountains is that we can push ourselves far beyond what we think we are capable of, and it's outside of our comfort zones that the most amazing things happen.' What drives us to go to our limits and beyond? What does it take to make dreams come true over all else? And how can you turn fear into courage? From Everest to K2, The Girl Who Climbed Everest is the story of Bonita Norris' journey undertaking the world's toughest and most dangerous expeditions. Once an anxious teenager with an eating disorder it was the discovery of a passion for climbing that inspired Bonita to change her life. Drawing on her experiences to capture the agonies - both mental and physical - and joys of her incredible feats Bonita also imparts the lessons learned encouraging you to harness greater self-belief. The Girl Who Climbed Everest is an honest exploration of everything Bonita has learnt from climbing. Life lessons about ambition, values, risk, happiness, the courage to fail, and what's ultimately important. An indispensable and important book for anyone who has ever doubted their potential or put limits on themselves - whatever challenge you face or ambitions you want to achieve, The Girl Who Climbed Everest will inspire you to take action and live life more fearlessly.

Guia explicativa de las ascensiones a los picos del macizo de la Pica d'Estats que superan los 3000 metros junto con las referencias de los refugios de la zona y todos los datos GPS.

15 descensos de barrancos en Tenerife, Canarias, Espana. Descritos con informacion del acceso y la salida, recorrido del barranco, croquis del barranco y enlace a su ruta GPS.

15 descensos de barrancos en Tenerife, Canarias, Espana. Descritos con informacion del acceso y la salida, recorrido del barranco, croquis del barranco y enlace a su ruta GPS.

Un amore scoperto da bambino. I mesi passati all'ombra del Cervino. Nel libro la passione per l'alta montagna e la sua grandezza. In solitaria.

Vagar por el Pirineo, la cordillera de punta a punta, es siempre un ejercicio saludable, y mas si se hace sin prisas, sin itinerarios fijos, caminando al ritmo que te lo pide el cuerpo y el animo. En este libro se ha ido recogiendo dia a dia aquello que le traian a la yema de los dedos al caminante, los valles, los bosques, las arduas tardes de tormenta bajo su diminuta tienda de campana. Apuntes, diario, impresiones, todo aquello que la soledad y el vagabundaje inspiran al caminante.

In 1992, an Indian climber was left to die on the South Col of Mount Everest by other climbers who watched his feebly waving hand from their tent. He was filmed in his last hours for a television feature.Why did onlookers not hold the dying man's hand and comfort him? The answer appals Joe Simpson, who was himself left for dead in a cervassein Peru in 1985 - 'because it might compromise their summit bid'. It is an ethical question that Joe is forced to confront as he climbs a hazardous route on Pumori.

Now that Everest has become the playgroundof the rich, where commercial operators offer guided tours to the top,camping admist the detritus and unburied corpses of previous less fortunate climbers, Joe wonders if the noble instincts that once characterised mountaineering have been irrevocably displaced - as in politics, in business, in the media and in other facets of society.

It seemed like any other season on Everest.

Ten expeditions from around the world were preparing for their summit push, gathered together to try for mountaineering's ultimate prize. Twenty-four hours later, eight of those climbers were dead, victims ofthe most devastating storm ever to hit Everest. On the North face of the mountain, a British expedition found itself in the thick of the drama. Against all odds, film-maker Matt Dickinson and professional climber Alan Hinkes managed to battle through hurricane-force winds toreach the summit. In Death Zone, Matt Dickinson describes the extraordinary event that put the disaster on the front cover of Time and Newsweek. The desperate attempts of teams on the southern side of the mountain... fatal errors that led to the deaths of three Indian climbers on the North Ridge...and the moving story of Rob Hall, the New Zealand guide who stayed with his stricken client, and paid with his life. Based on interviews with the surviving climbers and the first-hand experience of having lived through the killer storm, this book tacklesissues at the very heart of mountaineering.

Death Zone is an extra- ordinary story of human triumph, folly and disaster.

Guia explicativa de las ascensiones a los picos del macizo del Besiberri que superan los 3000 metros junto con las referencias de los refugios de la zona y todos los datos GPS.