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The Darkest White

A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him

by Eric Blehm ...

“Eric Blehm offers an insightful perspective on how Craig Kelly became the effortless icon that we all revered as well as sobering details of how his heroic journey tragically ended. The Darkest White is a must read, not just for fans of snowboarding, but for anyone looking for inspiration from an unlikely hero.”—Tony HawkFrom Eric Blehm, the bestselling author of The Last Season and Fearless, ... Read more

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“Eric Blehm offers an insightful perspective on how Craig Kelly became the effortless icon that we all revered as well as sobering details of how his heroic journey tragically ended. The Darkest White is a must read, not just for fans of snowboarding, but for anyone looking for inspiration from an unlikely hero.”—Tony HawkFrom Eric Blehm, the bestselling author of The Last Season and Fearless,
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The Urban Prepper: A City Survival Guide

by Robert Paine ...

The Urban Prepper: A City Survival Guide will guide you and your family through the important steps and considerations that you need to survive any situation in the city.If you are interested in learning how to protect your family from any and all of the inevitable disasters that could potentially happen, this book is your first step to learning how to prepare for any urban emergency situation.In ... Read more

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The Urban Prepper: A City Survival Guide will guide you and your family through the important steps and considerations that you need to survive any situation in the city.If you are interested in learning how to protect your family from any and all of the inevitable disasters that could potentially happen, this book is your first step to learning how to prepare for any urban emergency situation.In
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Training for the Uphill Athlete

A Manual for Mountain Runners and Ski Mountaineers

by Steve House, Scott Johnston, Kilian Jornet ...

Like Training for the New Alpinism, a training philosophy and guide for endurance athletes who thrive on distance and ascent ... Read more

$15.99 CAD

Like Training for the New Alpinism, a training philosophy and guide for endurance athletes who thrive on distance and ascent
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The Climb

Tragic Ambitions on Everest

by Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt ...

Everest, the major motion picture from Universal Pictures, is set for wide release on September 18, 2015. Read The Climb, Anatoli Boukreev (portrayed by Ingvar Sigurðsson in the film) and G. Weston DeWalt’s compelling account of those fateful events on Everest.In May 1996 three expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing ... Read more

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Everest, the major motion picture from Universal Pictures, is set for wide release on September 18, 2015. Read The Climb, Anatoli Boukreev (portrayed by Ingvar Sigurðsson in the film) and G. Weston DeWalt’s compelling account of those fateful events on Everest.In May 1996 three expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing
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Shattered Air

A True Account of Catastrophe and Courage on Yosemite's Half Dome

by Bob Madgic ...

The compelling account of recklessness, tragedy, courage and rescue, a book whose sobering depiction of Nature's danger is tempered by unforgettable portraits of the triumphant human spirit. ... Read more

$15.99 CAD

The compelling account of recklessness, tragedy, courage and rescue, a book whose sobering depiction of Nature's danger is tempered by unforgettable portraits of the triumphant human spirit.
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Land of Tempest

Travels in Patagonia: 1958-1962

by Eric Shipton ...

Series Book 6 - Eric Shipton: The Mountain Travel Books
Land of Tempest reveals Eric Shipton at his best - writing with enthusiasm and humour about his explorations in Patagonia in the 1950s and 1960s. He is an astute observer of nature and the human spirit, and this account of his travels is infused with with his own zest for discovery and the joy of camaraderie. Undaunted by hardship or by injury, Shipton and his team attempt to cross one of the ... Read more

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Land of Tempest reveals Eric Shipton at his best - writing with enthusiasm and humour about his explorations in Patagonia in the 1950s and 1960s. He is an astute observer of nature and the human spirit, and this account of his travels is infused with with his own zest for discovery and the joy of camaraderie. Undaunted by hardship or by injury, Shipton and his team attempt to cross one of the
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Seven Years in Tibet

by Heinrich Harrer ...

Translated by Richard Graves ...

A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer’s escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time, was climbing in the Himalayas when war broke out in Europe. He was imprisoned by the British in India but succeeded in escaping and fled to Tibet. Settling ... Read more

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A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer’s escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.Heinrich Harrer, already one of the greatest mountaineers of his time, was climbing in the Himalayas when war broke out in Europe. He was imprisoned by the British in India but succeeded in escaping and fled to Tibet. Settling
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More Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies

3rd Edition

by Andrew Nugara ...

Thoroughly updated, expanded and redesigned, this bestselling, full-colour guide to scrambling contains dozens of new trips for experienced hikers looking for more challenging routes to the top of a mountain.The third edition of More Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies contains 39 new routes, in addition to updates to some of the 114 featured in the second edition, along with an inspiring collection ... Read more

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Thoroughly updated, expanded and redesigned, this bestselling, full-colour guide to scrambling contains dozens of new trips for experienced hikers looking for more challenging routes to the top of a mountain.The third edition of More Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies contains 39 new routes, in addition to updates to some of the 114 featured in the second edition, along with an inspiring collection
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Thirty Below

The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali

by Cassidy Randall ...

The intensely gripping, prize-winning, and inspiring story of a group of female adventurers and their treacherous, pioneering ascent of Denali in 1970, winner of the Banff Mountain Book Award Grand PrizeGrace Hoeman dreamed of standing on top of Denali. The tallest peak in North America, the fierce polar mountain loomed large in many climbers’ imaginations, and Hoeman, a doctor in Alaska, had come ... Read more

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The intensely gripping, prize-winning, and inspiring story of a group of female adventurers and their treacherous, pioneering ascent of Denali in 1970, winner of the Banff Mountain Book Award Grand PrizeGrace Hoeman dreamed of standing on top of Denali. The tallest peak in North America, the fierce polar mountain loomed large in many climbers’ imaginations, and Hoeman, a doctor in Alaska, had come
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The Mammoth Book of On The Edge

by Jon E. Lewis ...

Series Book 383 - Mammoth Books
No one sees clearer than an individual whose life is hanging by the finger tips on the edge of an abyss.Probing the furthest reaches of human daring and endurance, here are 28 of the great first-hand accounts of extreme mountaineering, from legendary names. Written by the bestselling author of Meadowland and The Running Hare,Featuring:·Heinrich Harrer - first conqueror of the notorious Eigerwand. ... Read more

$10.99 CAD

No one sees clearer than an individual whose life is hanging by the finger tips on the edge of an abyss.Probing the furthest reaches of human daring and endurance, here are 28 of the great first-hand accounts of extreme mountaineering, from legendary names. Written by the bestselling author of Meadowland and The Running Hare,Featuring:·Heinrich Harrer - first conqueror of the notorious Eigerwand.
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Dark Summit

The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season

by Nick Heil ...

In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, Nick Heil recounts the harrowing story of the deadly and controversial 2006 climbing season on Everest.In early May 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, Lincoln Hall, a seasoned Australian climber, was left for ... Read more

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In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, Nick Heil recounts the harrowing story of the deadly and controversial 2006 climbing season on Everest.In early May 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, Lincoln Hall, a seasoned Australian climber, was left for
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Into the Silence

The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest

by Wade Davis ...

A magnificent work of history, biography and adventure.If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles, it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country and a people bled white by war. Of the twenty-six British climbers who, on three expedtions (1921-24), walked 400 miles off the map to find and ... Read more

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A magnificent work of history, biography and adventure.If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles, it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country and a people bled white by war. Of the twenty-six British climbers who, on three expedtions (1921-24), walked 400 miles off the map to find and
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Fragile Edge

A Personal Portrait of Loss on Everest

by Maria Coffey ...

"Maria Coffey's tale is at once a deeply personal love story and a penetrating look into the world of professional climbers. Such clarity and honesty are seldom seen in mountain writing." - Greg Child, author of Postcards from the LedgeCritically acclaimed Fragile Edge won the coveted the International Literary Mountain prize for Maria Coffey's eloquently written story of how climbing tragedies ... Read more

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"Maria Coffey's tale is at once a deeply personal love story and a penetrating look into the world of professional climbers. Such clarity and honesty are seldom seen in mountain writing." - Greg Child, author of Postcards from the LedgeCritically acclaimed Fragile Edge won the coveted the International Literary Mountain prize for Maria Coffey's eloquently written story of how climbing tragedies
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Learning To Breathe

by Andy Cave ...

At the age of sixteen, Andy Cave followed in his father's and grandfather's footsteps and became a miner - one of the last recruits into a dying world. Every day he would descend 3,000 feet into Grimethorpe pit.But at weekends Andy escaped from the pithead to a very different world - testing his nerve on the cliffs and mountains around Britain, and forging endearing friendships with his new ... Read more

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At the age of sixteen, Andy Cave followed in his father's and grandfather's footsteps and became a miner - one of the last recruits into a dying world. Every day he would descend 3,000 feet into Grimethorpe pit.But at weekends Andy escaped from the pithead to a very different world - testing his nerve on the cliffs and mountains around Britain, and forging endearing friendships with his new
... Read more
Yosemite In the Sixties

by Yvon Chouinard, Glenn Denny, Steve Roper ...

An inside look at the renowned "Big Wall" era of Yosemite climbing, when legendary pioneers such as Yvon Chouinard, Royal Robbins, Steve Roper, Warren Harding, and more, achieved what others had only dreamed of. Glen Denny was there, along side his compatriots, lugging his camera to places never before captured on film.The sheer granite walls of Yosemite Valley galvanized a dedicated group of rock ... Read more

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An inside look at the renowned "Big Wall" era of Yosemite climbing, when legendary pioneers such as Yvon Chouinard, Royal Robbins, Steve Roper, Warren Harding, and more, achieved what others had only dreamed of. Glen Denny was there, along side his compatriots, lugging his camera to places never before captured on film.The sheer granite walls of Yosemite Valley galvanized a dedicated group of rock
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步知道：PCT太平洋屋脊步道160天

by 楊世泰 ...

每個人都有一條自己的步道2個人，160天，4,286公里踏上《那時候，我只剩下勇敢》暢銷作家雪兒・史翠德走過的太平洋屋脊步道深入美國長程縱走文化的冒險之旅！「在步道上走路的時候，每踏出一個步伐腦子就更清澈、透明一點。這就是一種「回歸」，回歸到原始的自己。」—————————————————楊世泰Ｉｔ＇ｓｎｏｔａｂｏｕｔｔｈｅｍｉｌｅｓ，ｉｔ＇ｓａｂｏｕｔｔｈｅ****ｓｍｉｌｅｓ！『重要的不</... ... Read more

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每個人都有一條自己的步道2個人，160天，4,286公里踏上《那時候，我只剩下勇敢》暢銷作家雪兒・史翠德走過的太平洋屋脊步道深入美國長程縱走文化的冒險之旅！「在步道上走路的時候，每踏出一個步伐腦子就更清澈、透明一點。這就是一種「回歸」，回歸到原始的自己。」—————————————————楊世泰Ｉｔ＇ｓｎｏｔａｂｏｕｔｔｈｅｍｉｌｅｓ，ｉｔ＇ｓａｂｏｕｔｔｈｅ****ｓｍｉｌｅｓ！『重要的不</...
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To the Last Breath

A Memoir of Going to Extremes

by Dr. Francis Slakey ...

A journey to the most extreme points on Earth and deep inside the human spiritBefore Georgetown physics professor Francis Slakey decided to climb the highest mountain on every continent and surf every ocean, he had shut himself off from other people. His lectures were mechanical; his relationships were little more than ways to fill the evenings. But as his journey veered dangerously off course, ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

A journey to the most extreme points on Earth and deep inside the human spiritBefore Georgetown physics professor Francis Slakey decided to climb the highest mountain on every continent and surf every ocean, he had shut himself off from other people. His lectures were mechanical; his relationships were little more than ways to fill the evenings. But as his journey veered dangerously off course,
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Touching the Void

by Joe Simpson ...

The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer’s harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the summer of 1985, two young, headstrong mountaineers set off to conquer an unclimbed route. They had triumphantly reached the summit, when a horrific accident mid-descent forced one friend to leave another for dead. Ambition, morality, fear and ... Read more

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The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer’s harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the summer of 1985, two young, headstrong mountaineers set off to conquer an unclimbed route. They had triumphantly reached the summit, when a horrific accident mid-descent forced one friend to leave another for dead. Ambition, morality, fear and
... Read more
Icefall

The True Story of a Teenager on a Mission to the Top of the World

by Alex Staniforth ...

A suspenseful memoir marked by adventure, hardship, and achievement, Alex Staniforth’s Icefall is the remarkable true story of a teenager’s journey to conquer Mount Everest. Plagued by adversity and epilepsy as a child, Alex developed a determination and will to succeed that would ultimately lead him from his home in Cheshire, England to the face of Everest at only eighteen years old. Though his ... Read more

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A suspenseful memoir marked by adventure, hardship, and achievement, Alex Staniforth’s Icefall is the remarkable true story of a teenager’s journey to conquer Mount Everest. Plagued by adversity and epilepsy as a child, Alex developed a determination and will to succeed that would ultimately lead him from his home in Cheshire, England to the face of Everest at only eighteen years old. Though his
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Alpine Rising

Sherpas, Baltis, and the Triumph of Local Climbers in the Greater Ranges

by Bernadette McDonald ...

2024 National Outdoor Book Award Winner2024 Banff Mountain Book Competition Mountain Literature Winner - The Jon Whyte Award"Alpine Rising is a fascinating history of the crucial and frequently tragic role of local Nepalis, Tibetans, and Pakistanis on mountaineering expeditions to the world’s highest peaks."-- Jon KrakauerThe name of Maurice Herzog, the first man to reach the summit of Annapurna, ... Read more

$32.79 CAD

2024 National Outdoor Book Award Winner2024 Banff Mountain Book Competition Mountain Literature Winner - The Jon Whyte Award"Alpine Rising is a fascinating history of the crucial and frequently tragic role of local Nepalis, Tibetans, and Pakistanis on mountaineering expeditions to the world’s highest peaks."-- Jon KrakauerThe name of Maurice Herzog, the first man to reach the summit of Annapurna,
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The Echo

Stories from the Edge of Survival

by Barry Blanchard, Jeremy Dean ...

Legendary alpinist Barry Blanchard returns to the thin places where weather, will, and luck decide everything—and the consequences echo for years.Vicariously thrilling for armchair—and actual—alpinists. –Kirkus ReviewsBlanchard, in his inimitable, heart-pounding, and brutally honest style, continues reminiscing about the life he introduced readers to inThe Calling (Patagonia, 2017).In these years, ... Read more

$16.49 CAD

Legendary alpinist Barry Blanchard returns to the thin places where weather, will, and luck decide everything—and the consequences echo for years.Vicariously thrilling for armchair—and actual—alpinists. –Kirkus ReviewsBlanchard, in his inimitable, heart-pounding, and brutally honest style, continues reminiscing about the life he introduced readers to inThe Calling (Patagonia, 2017).In these years,
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Inner Ranges

An Anthology of Mountain Thoughts and Mountain People

by Geoff Powter ...

Winner of the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Award for Climbing LiteratureWinner of the 2019 National Outdoor Book Award for Outdoor LiteratureShortlisted for the 2019 Boardman Tasker AwardInner Ranges brings together an enlightening and entertaining selection of mountain writing by one of Canada’s most respected adventure journalists and thinkers.This collection of original and previously ... ... Read more

$9.89 CAD

Winner of the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Award for Climbing LiteratureWinner of the 2019 National Outdoor Book Award for Outdoor LiteratureShortlisted for the 2019 Boardman Tasker AwardInner Ranges brings together an enlightening and entertaining selection of mountain writing by one of Canada’s most respected adventure journalists and thinkers.This collection of original and previously ...
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Miscalculated Risks: Attacked, Crippled, Paralyzed, Drowning, Unconscious and Freezing in The Wild (Just Not All at Once)

by Michael Cooper ...

Michael Cooper was compulsively drawn to perilous places. It nearly got him killed over a half-dozen times.In its action-packed, often-comical pages, Miscalculated Risks recounts how Cooper's increasingly dangerous ventures far into wilderness landed him in dire situations: Mortally wounded in a Mexican jungle, twenty roadless miles from the nearest medical facility. Half-drowned and severely ... Read more

$19.99 CAD

Michael Cooper was compulsively drawn to perilous places. It nearly got him killed over a half-dozen times.In its action-packed, often-comical pages, Miscalculated Risks recounts how Cooper's increasingly dangerous ventures far into wilderness landed him in dire situations: Mortally wounded in a Mexican jungle, twenty roadless miles from the nearest medical facility. Half-drowned and severely
... Read more
Psychovertical

by Andy Kirkpatrick ...

WINNER OF THE BOARDMAN TASKER PRIZE 2008Metro magazine recently wrote that Andy Kirkpatrick makes Ray Mears look like Paris Hilton. Words like boldness, adventure and risk were surely coined especially for him. As one of the world's most accomplished mountaineers and big-wall climbers, he goes vertically where other climbers (to say nothing of the general public) fear to tread.For the first time, ... Read more

$10.99 CAD

WINNER OF THE BOARDMAN TASKER PRIZE 2008Metro magazine recently wrote that Andy Kirkpatrick makes Ray Mears look like Paris Hilton. Words like boldness, adventure and risk were surely coined especially for him. As one of the world's most accomplished mountaineers and big-wall climbers, he goes vertically where other climbers (to say nothing of the general public) fear to tread.For the first time,
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