Download or read book To the Unknown Mountain Ascent of an Unexplored Twenty five Thousander in the Karakoram With Plates written by Cuthbert Wilfrid Francis NOYCE and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To the Unknown Mountain written by Wilfrid Noyce and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ascent of an unexplored twenty-five thousander in the Karakoram.
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 The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The British National Bibliography Cumulated Subject Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram Himalayas written by Sir William Martin Conway and published by London, T. Ficher Unwin. This book was released on 1894 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Subject Catalogue of the Royal Commonwealth Society London Asia other Asian areas Africa Africa in general North Africa written by Royal Commonwealth Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blank on the Map written by Eric Shipton and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'As I studied the maps, one thing about them captured my imagination - Across this blank space was written one challenging word, "Unexplored"' In 1937 two of the twentieth century's greatest explorers set off to explore an unknown area of the Himalaya, the breath-taking Shaksgam mountains. With a team of surveyors and Sherpas, Eric Shipton and H.W. Tilman located and mapped the land around K2, the second-highest mountain in the world. It was their greatest venture, and one that paved the way for all future mountaineering in that area of the Himalaya. For Shipton and Tilman, exploration was everything, with a summit a welcome bonus, and Blank on the Map is the book that best captures their spirit of adventure. With an observant eye and keen sense of humour, Shipton tells how the expedition entered the unknown Shaksgam mountains, crossing impenetrable gorges, huge rivers and endless snow fields. There's a very human element to in Shipton's dealings with his Sherpa friends, and with his Balti porters, some of whom were helpful, while some were less so. The expedition uncovers traces of ancient cultures and visits vibrant modern civilisations living during the last days of the British Empire. Only when all supplies are exhausted, their clothes in tatters and all equipment lost do the men finally return home. A mountain exploration classic.
Download or read book University of California Union Catalog of Monographs Cataloged by the Nine Campuses from 1963 Through 1967 Authors titles written by University of California (System). Institute of Library Research and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Oriental Collection written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram Himalayas written by Sir William Martin Conway and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...south bank. We followed the latter, though for the Hispar pass the Bitermal way would have been the better and more direct. I did not wish to divide the party before it was necessary to do so. In five minutes we came to a set of sangars, recently and strongly built of large stones. They contained cells for something more than a dozen sharpshooters, and entirely commanded the path, the glacier being on the one side, with a steep face that would require time to descend, and a precipice of rock on the other. These sangars were doubtless built last year, when the Nagyr folk thought that they might be invaded by way of the Nushik, at the time the expedition was attacking Nilt. In twenty minutes, walking sometimes on the stonecovered ice, sometimes by the side of it on places equally stony, we came to the mouth of the Ganun Bar (or Garumbar Bar). There must be a glacier of considerable size in this nala, for the stream draining it is large. It is lost to view under the main glacier, as are all the other tributaries on both sides. We left the ice and took to the left bank, which was followed for the rest of the march with only a few short intermissions. The sky was all day cloudy, for which mercy we were thankful, but now a strong wind began to blow up the valley, and with it came rain in large drops; but neither rain nor wind lasted long. We had to cross a number of stone shoots and fans dowm which the wind brought numberless missiles, which it was both necessary and amusing to dodge. "Jaldi jao!" cried our guide--like many a Tommy Atkins, it was all the Hindustani he knew--and jaldi we went. In half an hour we reached a sheltered place under a small precipice between two gullies, aud there a brief halt was made. The stone-shoots and...
Download or read book Karakoram written by Fosco Maraini and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1961 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Extracts from the Alpine Journal Relating to Climbing in the Karakoram Mountains written by Karakoram Mountains and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Karakoram Ice Mountains of Pakistan written by Colin Prior and published by Merrell. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ice mountains of the Karakoram are among the world's greatest natural treasures. At 8611 metres (28,251 ft), K2 is the second tallest mountain on Earth. There are three other mountains in the range that top 8000 metres (26,247 ft) - Gasherbrum I, Broad Peak and Gasherbrum II - and more than 60 peaks above 7000 metres (22,966 ft). Extending in a south-easterly direction from the north-eastern tip of Afghanistan and spanning the borders of Pakistan, India and China, the Karakoram is part of a complex of ranges in Central Asia that includes the Hindu Kush to the west and the Himalayas to the south-east. These mountains, however, are distinctive. This is the most glaciated region on the planet outside the Arctic and Antarctic. But while most of the world's great peaks are almost blanketed in snow and ice, the Karakoram is an exception: the mountains are so vertical that they rapidly shed snow, leaving their bold, jagged outlines of black granite glistening in the sun. The name of the range comes from the Turkic term for 'black rock' or 'black gravel'. The well-known landscape photographer Colin Prior was initially inspired to visit the Karakoram in his early twenties: in his local library he picked up the book In the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods (1977) by the American climber and photographer Galen Rowell, and was instantly captivated by images of the sharp, fractured peaks and vast glaciers. His first trip to the Karakoram came in the mid-1990s, and he has been passionate about these mountains ever since. Prior's new book is the result of six expeditions he has made to the Gilgit-Baltistan region of north-east Pakistan over the last six years. Because the region is so remote, there are no established base camps, and each expedition requires careful planning and miles of trekking with a large team of guides, porters and ponies to carry the equipment and provisions. There are regular rock falls and perilous snow-covered crevasses to contend with. The reward for Prior is what he calls the ultimate mountain landscape: 'The scenery is graphic, with towers, minarets and cathedrals of rock.' This beautifully produced volume showcases the breathtaking beauty of the Karakoram in some 130 duotone and colour photographs. The images are largely arranged to follow Prior's progress up the glaciers, and are accompanied by well-chosen quotations from accounts of historical expeditions to the region. A selection of 'making of' images at the end of the book highlights the challenges of documenting the most exceptional mountain range in the world.
