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  • Vertical Pleasure

    Early climbs in Britain, the Alps, the Andes and the Himalaya/The secret life of a taxman

    de Mick Fowler ...
    Vertical Pleasure is the first set of climbing memoirs from Mick Fowler - Britain's hardest-climbing tax inspector, the 'Mountaineer's Mountaineer' and recipient of the Piolet d'Or. Vertical Pleasure begins with Fowler's early teenage years on easy British rock and Swiss 4000m peaks under the guidance of his father. A frenzied spell follows, with climbing worked in around jobs, discos and ... Leer más

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  • On Thin Ice

    Alpine Climbs in the Americas, Asia and the Himalaya

    de Mick Fowler ...
    On Thin Ice is Mick Fowler's second set of climbing memoirs, following Vertical Pleasure. Here, the celebrated mountaineer records his expeditions since 1990. Despite work and family commitments, he has maintained a regular series of 'big trips' to challenging objectives around the world with a sequence of major successes: Taweche (1995, with Pat Littlejohn), Changabang (1997, with Steve Sustad, ... Leer más

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  • No Easy Way

    The challenging life of the climbing taxman

    de Mick Fowler ...
    'If we were guaranteed success in everything we tried then life would be pretty boring.' Mainstream news reports about climbing are dominated by action from the world's highest mountains, more often than not focusing on tragedy and controversy. Far removed from this high-altitude circus, a group of visionary and specialist mountaineers are seeking out eye-catching objectives in the most remote ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    No Easy Way

    The challenging life of the climbing taxman

    de Mick Fowler ...
    Narrado por Christopher Knight ...

    Completo

    10 hora 53 minutos

    ‘If we were guaranteed success in everything we tried then life would be pretty boring.’Mainstream news reports about climbing are dominated by action from the world’s highest mountains, more often than not focusing on tragedy and controversy. Far removed from this high-altitude circus, a group of visionary and specialist mountaineers are seeking out eye-catching objectives in the most remote ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    No easy way

    Narrado por Mauro Abbatescianna ...

    Completo

    10 hora 38 minutos

    Attualmente la forma di alpinismo più seguito è quello che si svolge sulle montagne più alte del mondo, gli Ottomila dell'Himalaya. Le notizie, un tempo prerogativa delle riviste specializzate, adesso dilagano tramite i mezzi di comunicazione di massa, notoriamente più interessati a pubblicare notizie di incidenti e soccorsi piuttosto che un alpinismo audace e di qualità. Al di fuori delle ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Tides

    A climber's voyage

    de Nick Bullock ...
    Narrado por Nick Bullock ...

    Completo

    11 hora 44 minutos

    Winner, Mountain Literature (Non-Fiction) Award, Banff Mountain Book Festival 2018Nick Bullock is a climber who lives in a small green van, flitting between Llanberis, Wales, and Chamonix in the French Alps. Tides, Nick's second book, is the much-anticipated follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut Echoes.Now retired from the strain of work as a prison officer, Nick is free to climb. A ... ... Leer más

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  • Elusive Summits

    Four expeditions in the Karakoram

    Elusive Summits is the award winning first book by British mountaineer Victor Saunders, winner of the 1990 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. Documenting climbs in the 1980s, at a time when the greatest mountains in the greatest ranges had been climbed by numerous routes, collected like sets of stamps and written about extensively by the world's leading climbers, Saunders and his ... 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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  • No Place to Fall

    Superalpinism in the High Himalaya

    No Place to Fall is Victor Saunder's follow up to his Boardman Tasker Prize winning debut book Elusive Summits. Covering three expeditions to familiar and unfamiliar ranges in Nepal, the Karakoram and the Kumaon, each shares the exhilaration of attempting new alpine-style routes on terrifyingly committing mountains. In 1989 Victor Saunders and Steve Sustad completed a difficult route on the West ... Leer más

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  • The Ogre

    Biography of a mountain and the dramatic story of the first ascent

    de Doug Scott ...
    Some mountains are high; some mountains are hard. Few are both.On the afternoon of 13 July 1977, having become the first climbers to reach the summit of the Ogre, Doug Scott and Chris Bonington began their long descent. In the minutes that followed, any feeling of success from their achievement would be overwhelmed by the start of a desperate fight for survival. And things would only get worse ... Leer más

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  • Up and About

    The Hard Road to Everest

    de Doug Scott ...
    Winner: Himalayan Club Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature'A full and fascinating portrait of one of the great figures of mountaineering.' – Michael Palin'As well as relaying the literal ups and downs of the biggest walls and highest mountains in the world, Scott writes with honesty about the emotional and personal peaks and troughs of a life where family relationships are put under strain ... Leer más

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  • Sacred Summits

    Kangchenjunga, the Carstensz Pyramid, and Gauri Sankar

    Mountaintops have long been seen as sacred places, home to gods and dreams. In one climbing year Peter Boardman visited three very different sacred mountains. He began on the South Face of the Carstensz Pyramid in New Guinea. This is the highest point between the Andes and the Himalaya, and one of the most inaccessible, rising above thick jungle inhabited by warring Stone Age tribes.During the ... Leer más

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