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Into Thin Air
by Jon Krakauer  Publisher Comments When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10,1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028...
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Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
by Joe Simpson Publisher Comments Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a...
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Last Climb: The Legendary Everest Expedition of George Mallory
by David Breashears Publisher Comments "Because it is there" George Leigh Mallory's reported explanation of why he wanted to conquer Mount Everest is the most succinct -- and maybe the most famous -- remark in the history of mountaineering. And when he vanished into the clouds on June 8...
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Climb #1: The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
by Anatoli Boukreev Publisher Comments As the climbers of the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster vanished into thin air, one man had the courage to bring them down alive... On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by expert leaders attempted to scale the world's largest peak. But things went...
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High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed
by Michael Kodas Publisher Comments In 2004, journalist Michael Kodas joined local mountain climbers from home on an expedition to Mount Everest. He anticipated an exhilarating and arduous adventure among a group of like-minded idealists that he could report to his readers back in...
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Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
by Jon Krakauer Publisher Comments A brilliant collection in which Krakauer writes about battling peaks like K2, Denali, Everest, and the Eiger -- always with a keen eye, an open heart, and a hunger for the ultimate experience....
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Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
by Nick Heil Publisher Comments The inside story of the deadly 2006 climbing season on Everest On May 15, 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit. A week later...
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Peaks and Lamas: A Classic Book on Mountaineering, Buddhism and Tibet
by Marco Pallis Publisher Comments After obtaining a copy of this out-of-print and rather elusive title, award-winning writer Wendell Berry highly recommended the reading of Marco Pallis's Peaks and Lamas. He praised the writing on travel and mountaineering, but he was especially drawn to...
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Climbing Anchors Field Guide (How to Climb)
by John Long Publisher Comments Good, solid anchors are essential for safe rock climbing. If you understand the principles behind anchor construction and the fundamentals of good anchors but want to have the details conveniently available once you’re at the cliff, this handbook...
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World Mountaineering
by Audrey Salkeld Publisher Comments The award-winning book now available in paperback. The world's leading mountaineers describe 50 spectacular peaks from around the world - their routes, challenges and climbing history. 125 colour photos....
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Knots for Climbers (Falcon Guides How to Climb)
by Craig Luebben Publisher Comments Craig Luebben, well known to climbers around the world for his instructional writings, has updated his crucial book on knots to a new edition. Luebben, whose books in this series include contributions on advanced climbing, ice climbing, and rappelling...
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Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters
by James M. Tabor Publisher Comments Winner of the 2007 Banff Mountain Festival Book Awards Grand Prize (The PhyllisandDon Munday Award): "A riveting account of a long-ago mountaineering disaster."—Time In 1967, seven young men, members of a twelve-man expedition led by twenty-four...
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High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2 (Extreme Adventures)
by Clint Willis Publisher Comments In this pioneering anthology, Clint Willis presents 75 years of great writing -- from Neil O'Dell to Jon Krakauer -- on the fabled peaks. Here are stories of two British expeditions to Everest in the 1920s; a piece on the 1939 K2 attempt that claimed...
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Minus 148 Degrees
by Art Davidson Publisher Comments Classic tale of dramatic near-death experiences in the harshest of conditions....
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer Publisher Comments When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mount Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028...
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Savage Night
by Allan Guthrie Publisher Comments How much blood would you spill to avenge those you love? Andy Park passes out at the sight of blood, but he thinks he’s discovered a way to make his family’s enemies pay. He isn’t prepared for the fallout, though, when his teenage son...
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Everest: The West Ridge
by Thomas F. Hornbein Publisher Comments The classic, gripping mountaineering saga of the first ascent of Everest's West Ridge....
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Selected Climbs in the Cascades Volume 2 1ST Edition
by Jim Nelson Publisher Comments 100 completely separate routes from Vol. I. A great mix of walk-ups, scrambles plus rock, ice, crag & sport climbs for all skill levels....
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Everest: The Unclimbed Ridge (Adrenaline Classics)
by Chris Bonington Publisher Comments Adrenaline Classics continues to bring to the fore the work of the father of modern mountaineering, the celebrated climber and writer, Sir Chris Bonington. EverestThe Unclimbed Ridge is a genuine classic of Everest literature, a book that series editor...
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The Climb Up to Hell
by Jack Olsen Publisher Comments In the heart of the Swiss Alps stand the three majestic peaks of the Bernese Oberland, Europe's most famous mountain range. The highest, at 13,638 feet, is the Jungfrau. Next is the Mönch, at 13,465 feet. But it is the smallest, the Eiger, rising 13,...
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