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  • Surviving Logan

    One mountaineer’s harrowing story of survival and recovery after being trapped on the second-highest peak in North America, Mount Logan in the Yukon Territory, during an extratropical cyclone.In May of 2005, North Shore Rescue put together a 40th Anniversary Expedition to Mount Logan. The team was made up of seven men and one woman – all experienced mountaineers and search & rescue personnel. The ... Leer más

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  • Just for the love of it

    de Cathy O'Dowd ...
    At 8am on 29 May, 1999, Cathy O’Dowd, a 30-year-old mountaineer from South Africa, stepped onto the summit of Everest and into history. She had become the first woman to climb the highest mountain in the world from both its south (Edmund Hillary) and north (George Mallory) sides. To achieve this, Cathy has had to face the ultimate risks of Everest.During her first ascent from the south in 1996, ... Leer más

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  • The Everest Politics Show

    Sorrow and strife on the world’s highest mountain

    de Mark Horrell ...
    Series series Footsteps on the Mountain Diaries
    In April 2014 Mark Horrell went on a mountaineering expedition to Nepal, hoping to climb Lhotse, the fourth-highest mountain in the world, which shares a base camp and climbing route with Mount Everest.He dreamed of following in the footsteps of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, by climbing through the infamous ice maze of the Khumbu Icefall, and he yearned to sleep in the grand amphitheatre of ... Leer más

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  • The Manaslu Adventure

    Three hapless friends try to climb a big mountain

    de Mark Horrell ...
    Series series Footsteps on the Mountain Diaries
    The mountain gods were protective of Manaslu, a two-pronged peak in the Nepal Himalaya, and one of the world’s fourteen 8,000m peaks.Many years ago, a Japanese team tried to climb it, but the gods had sent an avalanche in their wake which destroyed a monastery and set the local people against them. When they returned the next year, they were met with sticks and stones, stripped naked and sent home ... Leer más

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  • Inner Ranges

    An Anthology of Mountain Thoughts and Mountain People

    de 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 published ... Leer más

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  • The Climb

    Tragic Ambitions on Everest

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Not Without My Father

    One Woman's 444-Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace

    de Andra Watkins ...
    Can an epic adventure succeed without a hero? Andra Watkins needs a wingman to help her become the first living person to walk the historic 444-mile Natchez Trace as the pioneers did. Fifteen miles of rugged highway each day for thirty-four days.After striking-out with everyone in her life, she settles upon her disinterested eighty-year-old father. And his gas. The sleep apnea machine and self ... Leer más

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  • Kill the Silence

    A Survivor's Life Reclaimed

    de Monika Korra ...
    In 2009, college sophomore and track star Monika Kørra was grabbed by three men on her way home from a party and brutally raped. Within hours of being released, Monika resolved that she would not be a victim – she was going to be a survivor.Monika had traveled from her home in Norway to Southern Methodist University in Dallas, determined to acclimate to life in the States and excited for the ... Leer más

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  • Two Small Footprints in Wet Sand

    The Uplifting True Story of a Mother's Brave Quest to Save Her Daughter

    Traducido por Adriana Hunter ...
    Thaïs is almost two. Like most well-loved children, she is happy. She laughs as she runs on the beach. But her footprints in the sand, with toes turned out, tell a different story. Two Small Footprints in Wet Sand relates the overwhelming tragedy experienced by a family as a result of a genetic disorder.A true tale told by a mother, it’s the story of a little girl, of family, friends, and the ... Leer más

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  • The Mountain

    My Time on Everest

    de Ed Viesturs ...
    In national bestseller The Mountain, world-renowned climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs and cowriter David Roberts paint a vivid portrait of obsession, dedication, and human achievement in a true love letter to the world’s highest peak.In The Mountain, veteran world-class climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs—the only American to have climbed all fourteen of the world’s 8,000-meter ... Leer más

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  • Everest the Cruel Way

    The audacious winter attempt of the West Ridge

    de Joe Tasker ...
    On 30 January 1981 Joe Tasker and Ade Burgess stood at 24,000 feet on the west ridge of Mount Everest. Below them were their companions, some exhausted, some crippled by illness, all virtually incapacitated. Further progress seemed impossible. Everest the Cruel Way is Joe Tasker's story of an attempt to climb the highest mountain on earth - an attempt which pushed a group of Britain's finest ... Leer más

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  • They Shall Not Have Me

    The Capture, Forced Labor, and Escape of a French Prisoner in World War II

    The French painter Jean Hélion’s unique and deeply moving account of his experiences in Nazi prisoner-of-war camps prefigures the even darker stories that would emerge from the concentration camps. This serious adventure tale begins with Hélion’s infantry platoon fleeing from the German army and warplanes as they advanced through France in the early days of the war. The soldiers chant as they ... Leer más

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