Download or read book Expedition Diaries In The Throne Room of the Mountain God written by Mr M S Lewis and published by Adventure Press Ltd. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expedition Diaries is the journals and memoirs of a mountaineer. A mountaineer who had a dream, and then made that dream a reality. Through avalanche, storm, death, trials and tears he fought on to live his dream. After twenty years in the mountains, from the Welsh peaks of Snowdonia to the greater ranges of the Himalaya, Karakorum and the wilderness of Antarctica, this is a collection of his expedition diaries - as they were written. They include a first ascent of Workman Peak in Pakistan, The first Welsh ascent of Mount Vinson in Antarctica, the guiding of premiership football team manager Tony Pulis and the legend that is ex-England goalkeeper David Seaman during their attempt on Kilimanjaro in the worst conditions on the mountain for five years. The aim of this book is to inspire you to go for your dreams and to make them happen. Only you stand in your way of making them a reality.
Download or read book In the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods written by Galen A. Rowell and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1986 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first paperback editon of the classic eyewitness account, by photo-journalist and climber Galen Rowell, of the unsuccessful 1985 American attempt to scale K2, the world's second-highest mountain peak in the Karakoram Range between China and Kashmir. Black-and-white and color photographs.
Download or read book K2 The Story Of The Savage Mountain written by Jim Curran and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: K2 is the world's second highest mountain, but its savage reputation is second to none. The loss of Alison Hargreaves and six companions in 1995 was a grim echo of the multiple deaths in 1986 and of earlier disasters which have become part of climbing legend. K2 has always attracted the greatest names in mountaineering. Wiessner, Houston, Bonatti, Diemberger and Bonington are among those whose lives have been permanently scarred by their experiences on it. At the same time some inspiring new routes have been achieved on the world's most difficult 8000-metre peak. Jim Curran, himself a survivor of 1986, has traced the history of the mountain from the nineteenth-century pioneer explorers down to the present, and sees a repeating pattern of naked ambition, rivalry, misjudgement and recrimination. He has also found selfless heroism and impressive route-making on the mountain that top climbers will always covet as the ultimate prize.
Download or read book The Adventurer s Handbook written by Mick Conefrey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A celebration of the glory days of exploration that is part popular history, part survival manual, and imbued with a healthy dose of humor"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book One Man s Climb written by Adrian Hayes and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply moving story of the beauty and brutality of life, and death, on the world’s most unpredictable and perilous mountain. Sitting just lower than Everest at 8,611 meeres above sea level on the China–Pakistan border, the Savage Mountain claims the lives of even the most experienced climbers. Alongside severe altitude, the weather is notoriously volatile and the climb relentlessly steep. A staggering one in four attempts result in death on the mountain. In One Man’s Climb, Adrian Hayes details an intensely personal account of his attempts to climb K2 – first in 2013 and again in 2014. Absorbing and self-reflective, his journey is as much a story of climbing a mountain as it is a testament to the human spirit’s ability to endure.
Download or read book Mountaineering Literature written by Jill Neate and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long established as a standard reference work worldwide, this is a thorough bibliography of all mountaineering books that are of practical use to climbers or for reading pleasure or historical interest. Documenting more than 2000 books of mountaineering literature, it also includes nearly 900 climber's guidebooks, a sampling of more than 400 works of mountaineering fiction, plus journals and bibliographies.
Download or read book Ghosts of K2 written by Mick Conefrey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: K2 is almost 800ft shorter than Everest, yet it’s a far harder climb. Many great mountaineers became obsessed with reaching its summit, not all of them lived to tell of their adventures. Capturing the depth of their obsession, the heart-stopping tension of the climb and delving into the controversy that still surrounds the first ascent, Mick Conefrey delivers the definitive account of the ‘Savage Mountain’. From drug-addicted occultist Aleister Crowley to the brilliant but tortured expedition leader Charlie Houston and, later, the Italian duo who finally made it to the top, Conefrey resurrects the tragic heroes, eccentric dreamers and uncompromising rivalries forever instilled in K2’s legacy. This is the riveting, groundbreaking story of the world’s deadliest mountain.
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Download or read book K2 Mountain of Mountains written by Reinhold Messner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1981 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the story of the author's latest conquest, with even more spectacular photographs than any of his earlier books. It is a diary of the adventure, recounting not only the hard facts but the emotions of the climbers as well. Also includes a history of twenty-five years of K2 climbs and a chart summarizing previous attempts.
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