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What does it take to be one of the world's best high-altitude mountain climbers? A lot of fundraising; traveling in some of the world's most dangerous countries; enduring cold bivouacs, searing lungs, and a cloudy mind when you can least afford one. It means learning the hard lessons the mountains teach.Steve House built his reputation on ascents throughout the Alps, Canada, Alaska, the Karakoram and the Himalaya that have expanded possibilities of style, speed, and difficulty. In 2005 Steve and...

Revised and updated, this guide covers the myriad boulders that provide convenient climbing from Santa Barbara to San Diego.

'Man, the only - only - good thing about that climb was that you were tied on to the other end of the rope.'Simon McCartney was a cocky young British alpinist climbing many of the hardest routes in the Alps during the late seventies, but it was a chance meeting in Chamonix in 1977 with Californian 'Stonemaster' Jack Roberts that would dramatically change both their lives - and almost end Simon's.Inspired by a Bradford Washburn photograph published in Mountain magazine, their first objective was...

This is the 2014 3rd edition of North Wales Rock, a selected climbing guide to the world famous crags of North-West Wales. The guide showcases over 676 of the finest climbs from all the best areas: the Llanberis Pass, the Dinorwig Slate Quarries, Cloggy, Lliwedd, Ogwen and the Carneddau, Tremadog and the Moelwyns, Gogarth, the Lleyn Peninsula and the Llandudno limestone crags. This is a thoroughly modern production using full-colour topos, extensive area maps and individual crag approach maps. I...

"The Cordillera Blanca Guide" introduces the traveller to the climate, geology and geography of this magnificent mountain range in the Peruvian Andes. It is the largest snow covered mountain range of the tropics, with a unique landscape and this is the only book in the English language which provides detailed information to the traveller on the natural history and geography of the landscape. The guidebook includes chapters covering climate and hydrology; the Andes; geology; mines, minerals and e...

An ambitious and magnificent new travelogue by internationally bestselling, prizewinning writer Erika Fatland.The Himalayas meander for more than two thousand kilometres through many different countries, from Pakistan to Myanmar via Nepal, India, Tibet and Bhutan, where the world religions of Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism are interspersed with ancient shamanic beliefs. Countless languages and vastly different cultures exist in these isolated mountain valleys. Modernity and tradition collide, whil...

This is a dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to Australian travel and backpackers media. This book features in-depth reviews of virtually every hostel in each area. It is easy to understand star rating system. It contains detailed maps on info on popular sights & destinations. It includes hints & tips on where to eat and drink on the cheap. This is the perfect travel guide for anyone backpacking around Australia. It doesn't include information on fancy hotels and posh resorts - it focuses on...

At 28,250 feet, K2 is an enduring testimony to the strength of the human spirit, a mountain where dreams and destiny meet, and sometimes collide. It is considered one of the ultimate challenges for professional high-altitude climbers, a mountain that eschews mere luck and demands both physical and mental fortitude. As of May 2000, only 148 men and 5 woman have reached the top. Eighteen of those men and 3 of those women never returned, and for the past five years the weather conditions have been...

In May 1993, Rebecca Stephens became the first British woman to climb Everest. This book tells the story of that historic climb. Published on to mark the first anniversary of her ascent, the book describes Stephens's growing passion for mountains - in only four years of climbing, she scaled some of the world's major peaks, Mont Blanc, Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya and Mount McKinley - as well as giving a detailed step-by-step account of the preparation - physical and psychological - for her cel...