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 "

Andros is a large island (374 sq km or 147 sq miles), mountainous, with rich vegetation in several parts of the island and abundant running water, as testified by more than 150 watermills. A network of footpaths, many of them between dry-stone walls and several laid with large slate stones, criss-cross the island's hinterland. Several paths are maintained and way-marked. Chora, the main settlement of Andros, has many neoclassical houses, an interesting archaeological museum, and a particularly active museum of modern art that hosts interesting exhibitions every year.

Though the Alps may appear to be a peaceful place, the famed mountains once provided the backdrop for a political, environmental, and cultural battle as Germany and Austria struggled to modernize. Tait Keller examines the mountains' threefold role in transforming the two countries, as people sought respite in the mountains, transformed and shaped them according to their needs, and over time began to view them as national symbols and icons of individualism. In the mid-nineteenth century, the Alps were regarded as a place of solace from industrial development and the stresses of urban life. Soon, however, mountaineers, or the so-called "apostles of the Alps", began carving the crags to suit their whims, altering the natural landscape with trails and lodges, and seeking to modernize and nationalize the high frontier. Disagreements over the meaning of modernization opened the mountains to competing agendas and hostile ambitions. Keller examines the ways in which these opposing approaches corresponded to the political battles, social conflicts, culture wars, and environmental crusades that shaped modern Germany and Austria, placing the Alpine borderlands at the heart of the German question of nationhood.

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.

Veteran climber Paul Huebner takes you on spectacular climbing adventures in the Alps of Europe, the mountains of Alaska, the Colorado Rockies, Canada and the North Cascades, the volcanoes of Mexico and the Andes of Bolivia and Ecuador. He describes in vivid detail the many risks, mishaps and close calls he's experienced on his adventures, including witnessing the heart-pounding rescue of a terrified woman high on the Matterhorn after her partner had fallen to his death; the miraculous escape from a bombardment of falling rocks and lightning while leading a team of amateurs in the Canadian Rockies; and succumbing to altitude sickness and being greeted by a shotgun-toting night watchman in the Andes. Huebner enlightens you on the ever-present question of why climbers take the inconceivable risks and expose themselves to the incredible hazards, and he explains why he finally decided to hang up the rope.

A true story of adventure, survival, training and hiking over 300 kilometers and reaching The snow caps of Mt Kilimanjaro. It has been said that without the instinct for adventure in human beings, any civilization, however enlightened, any state, however well ordered, must wilt and wither. The building of nations demands that the spirit of adventure be fostered and developed.

His climbing partner was face down in the snow at 18,000 feet with a shattered limb and the weather was turning again. Little did they realize that this was only a small taste of the tragedy that would unfold on this ill-fated expedition. Of their team of 11 only 8 would return and one faced the possiblity of losing his leg permanently. What happened in the Karakoram and who paid the ultimate price for tempting the throne room? Experience this first hand account of Pakistan's deadliest climbing season marred from the beginning by Taliban masscres of mountaineers on a nearby peak. This book comes complete with over 50 unpublished photographs and illustrations.