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by Aden Meier
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Glacier climbing is an exciting but inherently dangerous sport. For those seeking to mountain climb, knowledge of glacier climbing is essential as climbing glaciers often form a part of reaching a summit. For others, the thrill derives from glacier climbing for its own sake. If you're a beginner,...
by alex trostanetskiy
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Are you looking for a journey that will take you through Greatest Biathlon Olympic Athletes to Ever Compete: Top 100, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria....
by Peter Hermon
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
The second book in a two-volume series describing walking routes up every 2000-footer in Wales - all 166 of them. The result is not just a guide to the mountains of Snowdonia, but a handbook of over 450 routes covering 21 Welsh mountain ranges - the whale-backed ridges of the Black Mountains, the...
Rock Climbing Smith Rock State Park
A Comprehensive Guide To More Than 1,800 Routes
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
The comprehensive guide to the place that brought sport climbing to North America—
a full-color, thoroughly updated new edition
Smith Rock State Park. It was on the impressive crags of this Oregon hideaway that American sport climbing came into its own, and to this day, some of the hardest...
Facing the Extreme
One Woman's Story of True Courage and Death-Defying Survival in the Eye of Mt. McKinley's Worst Storm Ever
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
She stepped into a death zone. The climbers on Alaska's Mt. McKinley called her "the woman." Ruth Anne Kocour, a world-class mountaineer, wasn't bothered. It was part of the challenge she faced as she joined an all-male team to conquer North America's highest peak...the mountain the Indians...
Tilting at Mountains
Love, Tragedy, and Triumph on the World's Highest Peaks
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
* The author reveals the demons that drove her to extreme physical accomplishments at the cost of great suffering story of adventure and personal growth * Pasaban is one of the best high-altitude climbers in the world today br> On May 17, 2010, a 37-year-old Spaniard named Edurne Pasaban became the...
Cascade Alpine Guide; Stevens Pass to Rainy Pass
Climbing & High Routes
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2003
* Cascades climbing routes -- the guidebooks relied on for more than 25 years * Northwest climbing legend Fred Beckey has summited and explored hundreds of Cascade peaks * Hand-drawn maps and photos with route overlays, as well as approach information Volume II in the classic Cascade Alpine Guide series...
Hiking Idaho
A Guide to the State's Greatest Hiking Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Lace up your boots and sample more than 100 trails in Idaho's vast undeveloped backcountry and wilderness areas. Discover pink granite peaks of the Sawtooth Range, "big tree" country in the Selkirk Mountain rain forest, and Hells Canyon - the deepest gorge in North America. Idaho offers hikers some...
by Eric Horst, Stewart M. Green
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
This revised and updated guidebook--now in full color--provides rock climbers with information on the best climbs in Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland, accompanied with color action photographs, climbing history for each area, route ratings and trip planning information, pitch-by-pitch written...
by John Quillen
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2016
A 2011 ski ascent of 24,747 foot Muztagh Ata in the Chinese Pamirs. We follow in the footsteps of legendary climber Eric Shipton for an expedition to the top of the "Ice Mountain Father". Frostbite and fistfights are all part of the landscape here in China's back of beyond.
Ridges of Snowdonia
The best ridge walking
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
This guidebook explores the best ridge walking in Snowdonia, Wales. A collection of horseshoes, traverses and circuits, as well as summits, ascent and descent options for knowledgable and experienced walkers. The routes range between 8 and 28km (as well as the 60km Fourteen Peaks Snowdonia Traverse),...
Dark Peak Walks
40 walks exploring the Peak District gritstone and moorland landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Located in the Peak District and distinguished from the neighbouring White Peak by the layer of gritstone which covers its limestone bed, the Dark Peak features a wild landscape of sweeping moorland and big skies. Easily accessible from Sheffield, it boasts a wealth of natural, geological, historical...
by Stewart M. Green
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Utah is a magnificent landscape of startling diversity and beauty, manifested for climbers in more cliff miles of exposed rock than any other state. Fragile sandstone towers pierce the sky amid endless miles of vertical cliffs sometimes more than a half mile high; wondrous canyon walls of cobblestone...
by Anne Strahovski
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
This book covers several topics including: Chapter 1: Discover The Different Types Of Rock Climbing Chapter 2: Biggest Mountain Peaks Chapter 3: Bouldering Techniques Chapter 4: History Of Rock Climbing Chapter 5: Climbing Quickdraws - How To Use Them Properly Chapter 6: Information On The Safety...