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Last Climb
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Author : David Breashears
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic
Release Date : 1999
Last Climb written by David Breashears and has been published by National Geographic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This lavishly illustrated account of the ill-fated 1924 attempt by George Mallory and Andrew Irvine to be the first to the summit of Mt. Everest includes never-before-published archival photos plus details of all three of Mallory's historic 1920s Everest expeditions. 100+ photos.
The Last Climb
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Author : Thomas H. Cosgrove
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Last Climb written by Thomas H. Cosgrove and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Adventure stories categories.
As Jim Bridgman prepares for the greatest challenge of his mountain-climbing life, he discovers how precarious survival is for the indigenous. He becomes a leader in their struggle and a wanted man with a price on his head.
The Longest Climb
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Author : Dominic Faulkner
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-01-26
The Longest Climb written by Dominic Faulkner and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-26 with Travel categories.
The Longest Climb is the utterly compelling account of Dominic and his team's expedition from the Dead Sea to the peak of Everest. His team EverestMax were the first ever to make this extraordinary journey. Following an old Victorian route, Dominic cycled through Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and India on his way to Tibet and the bottom of the world's highest mountain. From trying to find a wireless connection in Damascus and setting fire to the team's support vehicle in order to thaw the engine in Iran, to deciding whether or not to share the little oxygen they had and risk their own lives in order to try to save another climber, and beating their Austrian nemesis Gerry Winkler to the top, The Longest Climb is a high-octane combination of the huge personal risk, fascinating cultural insight, and momentary farce that make up a major expedition. But The Longest Climb is not simply a memoir of an expedition. It is also the moving account of Dominic's struggle to finally accept the heartbreaking loss of his father to cancer when Dominic was just six. As he fights illness, broken equipment, lack of money and the hardest season of Everest history to make the top, Dominic also discusses what has driven him up this mountain. The answers are as affecting as they are extraordinary.
The Last Climb
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Author : Simon Mccartney
language : en
Publisher: Lyons Press
Release Date : 2015-04-07
The Last Climb written by Simon Mccartney and has been published by Lyons Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1978, a pair of climber--Jack Roberts and Simon McCartney--made the first ascent of the North Face of Mount Huntington in a ten-day push with only five days of supplies. Two years later, they teamed up again to make the first ascent of the Southwest Face of Mount McKinley. Nearly at the summit, and after days without food, Simon contracted cerebral edema and the pair could neither climb nor descend. When all hope was gone, another pair of climbers reached the top of the Cassin Ridge and stumbled upon the stranded duo. What ensued was an epic ten-day battle for four men to survive on the most dangerous mountain in North America. Almost forty years later, neither route has been repeated because they are considered too difficult and dangerous. The psychological damage was so powerful that McCartney never climbed again. Beyond the Breaking Point is Simon's account, told for the first time. This book is more than a tale of incredible climbing adventure. It is also the gripping story of one man who goes beyond what is considered possible and the life-changing consequences.
Where You Ll Find Me
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Author : Ty Gagne
language : en
Publisher: Tmc Books LLC
Release Date : 2017-08-25
Where You Ll Find Me written by Ty Gagne and has been published by Tmc Books LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-25 with Business & Economics categories.
On Feb. 15, 2015, Kate Matrosova, an avid mountaineer, set off before sunrise for a traverse of the Northern Presidential Range in New Hampshire's White Mountains. Late the following day, rescuers carried her frozen body out of the mountains. What went wrong? Where You'll Find Me offers possible answers to that question.
The Last Climb Of The Season With Illustrations
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Author : H. H. Jennings
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1902
The Last Climb Of The Season With Illustrations written by H. H. Jennings and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1902 with categories.
The Last Step Legends Lore
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Author : Rick Ridgeway
language : en
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Release Date : 2014-02-14
The Last Step Legends Lore written by Rick Ridgeway and has been published by Mountaineers Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-14 with Sports & Recreation categories.
CLICK HERE to download a sample from The Last Step * A mountaineering classic * Conflict, hardship, endurance, triumph -- it's all here in Ridgeway's extraordinary story In September 1978, Rick Ridgeway, Jim Wickwire, Lou Reichardt and John Roskelley stood atop K2, the first Americans ever to achieve this victory. Under the leadership of Jim Whittaker, they and their teammates had spent 67 days on the mountain, nearly all of them above 18,000 feet, where the stresses of high-altitude living, of monotonous food, of confinement in tiny tents for day after day of frustrating storms had worn them down to the core. The Last Step is Rick Ridgeway's inside story of this extraordinary expedition. It's about the people who, battered by the mountain and their isolation, overcame their individual fears, desire, and disappointments to work together to get somebodyñanybodyñto the top of K2. It's about the glorious success the team achieved, and about the perilous bivouac Jim Wickwire spent just below the summit without food, oxygen or shelter in temperatures of -40F.
The Last Blue Mountain
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Author : Ralph Barker
language : en
Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing
Release Date : 2020-03-05
The Last Blue Mountain written by Ralph Barker and has been published by Vertebrate Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-05 with Sports & Recreation categories.
'When an accident occurs, something may emerge of lasting value, for the human spirit may rise to its greatest heights. This happened on Haramosh.' The Last Blue Mountain is the heart-rending true story of the 1957 expedition to Mount Haramosh in the Karakoram range in Pakistan. With the summit beyond reach, four young climbers are about to return to camp. Their brief pause to enjoy the view and take photographs is interrupted by an avalanche which sweeps Bernard Jillott and John Emery hundreds of feet down the mountain into a snow basin. Miraculously, they both survive the fall. Rae Culbert and Tony Streather risk their own lives to rescue their friends, only to become stranded alongside them. The group's efforts to return to safety are increasingly desperate, hampered by injury, exhaustion and the loss of vital climbing gear. Against the odds, Jillott and Emery manage to climb out of the snow basin and head for camp, hoping to reach food, water and assistance in time to save themselves and their companions from an icy grave. But another cruel twist of fate awaits them. An acclaimed mountaineering classic in the same genre as Joe Simpson's Touching the Void , Ralph Barker's The Last Blue Mountain is an epic tale of friendship and fortitude in the face of tragedy.
On Top Of The World
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Author : Richard Sale
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-01-01
On Top Of The World written by Richard Sale and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Mountaineering categories.
This book looks at the development of climbing on the world's highest mountains - the 14 whose summits stand above the 8000 metre contour. Though concentrating on the new millennium, from 2000 to 2011, with an epilogue on 2011, the book also covers the first ascent of the mountains, and the new routes climbed between the first ascent and 1999. A sequel to "On Top of the World", published in 2000 which dealt with the discovery and early climbing history of the mountains, the book also uses new material which has come to light over the last decade to re-appraise the first ascents on Annapurna, Broad Peak and K2. Illustrated with stunning images for the new routes established during the new millennium, the book also includes archival shots from the early history of the mountains. These archival shots include first ascent shots from two of the mountains which had not been made available for the earlier book. The book is completed with data on the mountains provided by co-author Eberhard Jurgalski, who maintains the world's most up-to-date database on these (and other) mountains. The data include all climbers who have summitted all 14 mountains (a figure which now stands at an astonishing 28) as well as those who are nearing the complete set. Sadly some of the latter have died in the attempt and will never achieve their goal.
The Mountain
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Author : Ed Viesturs
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-04-29
The Mountain written by Ed Viesturs and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The world's most famous mountain, Everest remains for serious high-altitude climbers an ultimate goal. Ed Viesturs has gone on eleven expeditions to Everest, reaching the summit seven times. He's spent more than two years of his life on the mountain. No climber today is better poised to survey Everest's various ascents-both personal and historic. In The Mountain, Viesturs delivers just that: riveting you-are-there accounts of his own climbs as well as vivid narratives of some of the more famous and infamous climbs throughout the last century, when the honour of nations often hung in the balance, depending on which climbers summited first. In addition to his own experiences, Viesturs sheds light on the fate of Mallory and Irvine, whose 1924 disappearance just 800 feet from the top remains one of mountaineering's greatest mysteries, and on the multiply tragic last days of Rob Hall and Scott Fischer in 1996, the stuff of which Into Thin Air was made. Informed by the experience of one who has truly been there, The Mountainaffords a rare glimpse into that place on earth where Heraclitus's maxim-character is destiny-is proved time and again. Complete with gorgeous photos of Everest, many of which were taken by Viesturs himself, and shots taken on some of the legendary historic climbs, The Mountainis an immensely appealing book for active and armchair climber alike.