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  • The Endless Knot

    K2 Mountain of Dreams and Destiny

    'A monumental book … I defy anyone to read it and remain unmoved.' Stephen Venables, Alpine Journal Acclaimed as one of the most powerful accounts of mountain adventure and tragedy ever written, The Endless Knot is a harrowing account of the 1986 K2 disaster. A rare first-hand account from a survivor at the very epicentre of the drama, The Endless Knot describes the disaster in frank detail. Kurt ... Leer más

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  • Summits and Secrets

    The Kurt Diemberger autobiography

    'A book grows rather like a snow crystal. One doesn't write it from start to finish but, in greater or less degree, all at the same time … that is why my book is not in chronological order; for everything is of the present, held in the moment when thought captures it.'Kurt Diemberger's Summits and Secrets is a mountaineering autobiography like no other. Writing anecdotally, Diemberger provides an ... Leer más

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  • Spirits of the Air

    Part of the Kurt Diemberger Omnibus

    Kurt Diemberger belongs to an elite mountaineering club. He is one of only two climbers to have made first ascents of two 8,000-metre peaks - Broad Peak and Dhaulagiri. His Broad Peak ascent was the first eight-thousander climbed in alpine style without oxygen. He had climbed the major Alps north faces (the Eiger, Matterhorn and Grandes Jorasses) by 1958 and was awarded the fifth Piolets d'Or ... Leer más

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  • K2 Il nodo infinito

    Sogno e destino

    Uno dei più grandi classici di montagna in una nuova edizione.K2. La vicenda, il vissuto di questo libro si impernia sulla meravigliosa e terribile montagna, la montagna-sogno, la montagna sopra la montagna, simile a un immenso cristallo di cui evoca la sfolgorante e misteriosa regolarità. Nelle facce di questo cristallo si riflettono gli eventi nelle loro infinite angolazioni: il K2 degli esordi; ... Leer más

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  • Danzare sulla corda

    Storie della mia vita

    Kurt Diemberger è l'unico alpinista vivente ad aver salito due ottomila inviolati. Nel 1957 partecipò alla spedizione, ideata dal leggendario Hermann Buhl, che portò alla conquista del Broad Peak, con tutti i risvolti positivi e negativi che sono seguiti dopo la morte di quest'ultimo. Un'esperienza che lo ha segnato profondamente e che ha alimentato infinite polemiche e controversie. Ma se questa ... Leer más

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  • Seiltanz

    Im Auf und Ab des Lebens

    Er ist der einzige lebende Erstbesteiger von zwei Achttausendern, der letzte Berggefährte von Hermann Buhl, der »Kameramann der Achttausender« und bildete mit Julie Tullis das »höchste Filmteam der Welt«. Wer die spannenden, vergnügten und dramatischen Geschichten seines Lebens liest, versteht, warum Kurt Diemberger noch immer für das Abenteuer lebt. ... Leer más

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  • The Ogre

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  • Everest: Alone at the Summit

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    In 1988, Stephen Venables became the first Briton to summit Everest without oxygen. Everest: Alone at the Summit is the story of his thrilling journey. Near-impossible challenges are conquered with determination and strength, and the experience of an expedition on the world's highest mountain is recounted in a refreshingly honest light. The Kangshung Face remains the least frequented of Everest's ... Leer más

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