Mountaineering category: 669 books

Want to go vertical? Let Rock Climbing Connecticut point you to the best ascents in the state. Scale the rock at Ragged Mountain, jam your way up the cracks at Chatfield Hollow State Park, and get pumped on the bouldering circuit at 7 Falls State Park. What Connecticut climbs lack in vertical height,...

“A splendid chronicle of early climbing in the Sierra Nevada.” —Royal Robbins It’s 1873. Gore-Tex shells and aluminum climbing gear are a century away, but the high mountains still call to those with a spirit of adventure. Imagine the stone in your hands and thousands of feet of open...

CLICK HERE to download the first 50 pages from Fiva “A wonderful, nostalgic, gripping, classic yarn with great humour.” —Joe simpson, author of Touching the Void * A classic tale of how youthful bravado leads to serious trouble * Winner, Mountain Literature Award, Banff Festival...

Best Climbs Los Angeles narrows down the thousands of climbing routes across the 4,500 square miles of Los Angeles County to the absolute best 300 routes. These are the routes that display the hidden beauty and deep rooted climbing history of Los Angeles. From clipping bolts with humpback whales and...

«Ueli Steck è stato uno dei migliori scalatori di tutto il mondo negli ultimi quindici anni.» Reinhold Messner«Lui era un campione, nello sport e nella vita. Considero l’aver vissuto alcune esperienze con lui un tesoro che la vita mi ha regalato.» Simone MoroUeli Steck, soprannominato...

Da una parte c'è lei, la montagna: enorme, eterna, altera. Dall'altra c'è lui, l'uomo, l'alpinista. Alla montagna ha dedicato la propria esistenza: in montagna è nato, in montagna è cresciuto, in montagna ha rischiato di morire. K2, agosto 2008. Un gruppo di alpinisti di diverse nazionalità,...

Nel giugno 1985, due alpinisti britannici, il venticinquenne Joe Simpson e il suo compagno di cordata, Simon Yates, hanno appena raggiunto la vetta del Siula Grande (6536 metri) nelle Ande peruviane, salendo per la prima volta la parete Ovest. Colti, sulla cima, da una violenta bufera, i due scendono...

Originally published in the 1930s. The author was a Romany who spent many years of his life under the open sky and living off the land. This book will prove of great interest to hunters, ramblers, and campers. Contents Include: General Hints Clothing Pitching Camp Hammocks Equipment Food and Outdoor...

Scrambling is a hands-on sport and, without the stop-start of rock climbing, the joy of it can be appreciated more freely. Here, Alan Tees guides mountaineers to exhilarating scrambles in some of the most beautiful parts of the country. All abilities are catered for in these graded routes, from straightforward...

Descriptions and maps to all the major climbing areas in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Two hundred new routes and two new climbing areas have been added for a total of nearly 1,000 routes at 13 areas.

A compelling and thoughtful memoir about a significant figure on New Zealand's literary - and natural - landscape.'The stories that I think worth telling are of how, as a young man, I left home on the other side of the world half a century ago and took the chance to become a New Zealander. More, of...

When travel writer Dan Szczesny and his wife, Meenakshi, traveled to Nepal to marry in Kathmandu and trek to Everest Base Camp, they knew the journey would be difficult. What they didn't realize was how life-changing their time in the land of mountains would be. From the chaos of Kathmandu’s...

Les coulisses de la victoire sur l’Everest racontées pour la première fois à l’appui d’archives inédites. 29 mai 1953. Edmund Hillary et Tenzing Norgay sont les premiers hommes à fouler le sommet de l’Everest, la plus haute montagne au monde. 60 ans plus tard, voici le premier...

** L'histoire vraie , captivante et souvent dramatique d'une exceptionnelle génération d'alpinistes, partis au bout de leurs rêves. ** Peu d'hommes peuvent prétendre avoir autant marqué l'histoire de la montagne que Chris Bonington, l'un des plus célèbres alpinistes du vingtième siècle....