Four Years In the Rockies tells the story of Isaac P. Rose, who went from greenhorn to legendary trapper at the height of the fur-trade in the 1830s. His narrative features a who's who of early American West figures like Jim Bridger, Kit Carson and Nathaniel Wyeth, and features many memorable sequences such as the trader's rendezvous, fights with Native Americans and countless details not in mainstream history books - for example, how Kit Carson found his wife. Four Years In the Rockies is a definitive look at the era of the fur-trappers and is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of the American West.

Mt Gherania is a long limestone massif that extends between Kakia Skala (the narrow pass on the Athens to Corinth highway - now a series of tunnels) and Loutraki. Numerous paths, which can be combined into interesting long routes, run along the tallest peaks of Paliovouna, Douskia and Makriplaghi.

Only one person believed Jane Parnell when she reported being raped at twenty-one: the mountain man who first led her up one peak after another in the Colorado Rockies and who then became her husband. Parnell took to mountaineering in the Rocky Mountains as a means to overcome her family's history of mental illness and the trauma of the rape. By age thirty she became the first woman to climb the 100 highest peaks of the state. But regaining her footing could not save her by-now-failing marriage. Unprepared emotionally and financially for singlehood, she kept climbing - the 200 highest peaks, then nearly all of the 300 highest. The mountains were the one anchor in her life that held. Finding few contemporary role models to validate her ambition, Parnell looked to the past for inspiration - to English travel writer Isabella Bird, who also sought refuge and transformation in the Colorado Rockies, notably by climbing Longs Peak in 1873 with the notorious mountain man Rocky Mountain Jim. Reading Bird's now-classic A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains emboldened Parnell to keep moving forward. She was not alone in her drive for independence. Parnell's memoir spans half a century. Her personal journey dramatizes evolving gender roles from the 1950s to the present. As a child, she witnessed the first ascent of the Diamond on Longs Peak, the ""Holy Grail"" of alpine climbing in the Rockies. In 2002, she saw firsthand the catastrophic Colorado wildfires of climate change, and five years later, she nearly lost her leg in a climbing accident. In the tradition of Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Tracy Ross's The Source of All Things, Parnell's mountaineering memoir shows us how, by pushing ourselves to the limits of our physical endurance and by confronting our deepest fears, we can become whole again.

When the Wells sisters from the tiny English hamlet of Denton, near Ilkley, Yorkshire, took up mountaineering at the start of the twentieth century, little did they know that they were to become pioneers in women's climbing in the UK. At the time of the growing strength of the Women's Suffragette movement, women-only mountaineering began to increase in popularity. This story describes the adventures of Paddy, Trilby and Biddy Wells, through Wharfedale, the Lake District, North Wales, Scotland and the Alps, including the first all-female traverse of the Skye ridge, the first female descent of Gaping Ghyll pothole, and the first female to successfully climb all the Scottish Munros. There were links in the lives of the three sisters to the Church of St. John in Ben Rhydding; to the local ladies Hockey Club; to the founding of England's first women only climbing club; to Bradford Diocesan Council meetings; to innovative ideas in Special Needs education in Bradford; to local amateur operatic and Gilbert and Sullivan Societies; and to many leading and famous British mountaineers of the period. This story will be of interest to the local people in Ilkley and Wharfedale, to mountaineer's around the world and to all those interested in discovering more about some remarkable, independently minded women to whom we should all be in awe.

Have you ever wondered what it's like to scale a mountain? Meet 29 women like you and me who are passionate about rock climbing. Over 100 photos showcase our adventures in the outdoors on rock and ice and snow. Our personal profiles tell you how we got into climbing, what we do in "real life," and how the mountains give us vitality. We hope that Women on the Rocks will inspire you to take up the exhilarating sport of rock climbing yourself. What others say: Ginette Walker Vinski shares, "I just got my "Women on the Rocks" book in the mail. It's great As soon as I opened it I was totally absorbed. What a great collection of female climbers, photos, and stories Awesome women. Great job "

In February 2008, thirty-five employees of Royal Dutch Shell attempted to scale the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak, the world tallest free standing mountain, one of the largest volcanoes to emerge from the earth's crust and a snow capped mountain on the equator The expedition was organized to raise funds to alleviate the plight of HIV/AIDS orphaned children in Africa. Thirty-five staff volunteered for the climb, and also self-sponsored their expedition. I was one of the volunteers, and I volunteered for the climb for three reasons To support the noble objectives of alleviating the plight of HIV/AIDS orphaned in Africa To rediscover myself and, Climbing Mt Kilimanjaro is one of my lifelong ambitions. I trained hard for the expedition, and I was prepared for the expected and the unexpected. All through the preparation I never had the plan of writing a book about the expedition, however during the climb when I saw the extent of the challenges and difficulties involved, the changing and beauty of nature at different altitudes, and the bond that develops between climbers, it then occurred to me that I have to tell our story. So I went back in 2009 to re-experience the climb.