Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of ...
Jon KrakauerInto Thin Air is a riveting first-hand account of a catastrophic expedition up Mount Everest. In March 1996, Outside magazine sent veteran journalist and seasoned climber Jon Krakauer on an expedition led by celebrated Everest guide R...
Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing...
Andy HallIn the summer of 1967, twelve young men ascended Alaska's Mount McKinley—known to the locals as Denali. Engulfed by a once-in-alifetime blizzard, only five made it back down. Andy Hall, a journalist and son of the park superintende...
After the Wind: Tragedy on Everest - ...
Lou KasischkeNew deluxe paperback edition with Book Group Questions and a Q&A with the Author.Near the top of Mount Everest, on 10 May 1996, eight climbers died. It was the worst tragedy in the mountain's history. Lou Kasischke was there. After ...
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary ...
Peter Zuckerman"Gripping, intense. . . . Buried in the Sky will satisfy anyone who loved [Into Thin Air]."—Kate Tuttle, Boston GlobeWhen Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. Indeed, for as lo...
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of ...
Jon KrakauerWhen Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10,1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin the perilous de...
Accidents in North American Climbing ...
American Alpine ClubBeginners and expert climbers alike rely on these stories and analysis to become safer climbers Articles written by certified guides and rescue professionals offer focused how-to advice throughout the book. This year, Know the Ropes d...
Accidents in North American Climbing ...
American Alpine ClubBeginners and expert climbers alike rely on the stories and analysis in Accidents to become safer climbers Know the Ropes and Essentials articles, written by experts, provide focused how-to advice throughout the book New: more ava...
Accidents in North American Mountaine...
American Alpine ClubSince 1948, the American Alpine Club has documented the year's most teachable climbing accidents, providing invaluable lessons to climbers. In Accidents in North American Mountaineering, each significant incident is analyzed so climbe...
Over the Edge: A True Story of Kidnap...
Greg ChildsTommy Caldwell, Beth Rodden, Jason Smith and John Dickey, four of America's best young rock climbers-the oldest of them only 25- were asleep in their portaledges before dawn on August 12,2000, high on the Yellow Wall in Pamir-Alai mou...
How to Climb: Self-Rescue, 2nd
David FasuloThismust-have handbook on rescue techniques for serious climbers fully describes and illustrates a variety of techniques that every climber should know for safety and self-reliance.
There is no luckier dog than one that is frolicking in the Colorado High Country. Whether skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, mountain biking, on the river, or on a lofty summit, dogs in the Colorado mountains are the happiest creatures on ...
Including two new chapters on Alex Honnold's free solo ascent of the iconic 3,000-foot El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.On June 3rd, 2017, Alex Honnold became the first person to free solo Yosemite's El Capitan―to scale the wall...
The Everest Politics Show: Sorrow and...
Mark HorrellIn 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 f...
What does it take to be one of the world's best high-altitude mountain climbers? A lot of fundraising; traveling in some of the world's most dangerous countries; enduring cold bivouacs, searing lungs, and a cloudy mind when you can le...
Classic Krakauer: Essays on Wildernes...
Jon KrakauerSpanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these ten gripping essays show why Jon Krakauer is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. His pieces take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mount Everest to a volc...
Lost at Windy Corner: Lessons from De...
Aaron LinsdauWindy Corner on Denali has claimed lives, fingers, and toes. What would make someone brave lethal weather, crevasses, and slick ice to attempt to summit North America's highest mountain? Denali has claimed over one hundred lives. It s...
Climbing Anchors Field Guide, 2nd
John LongWith more than 100 full-color photos and detailed captions showing how to create safe and simple rock-climbing anchoring systems, this is a take-to-the-crag companion book to our huge-selling Climbing Anchors. Designed for quick use ...
The Great American Dirtbags: More Tal...
Luke MehallThe Great American Dirtbags is a collection of 20 short stories. The book is a follow up to Climbing Out of Bed, and the main focus is mountain town culture and the dirtbag climbing existence. Mehall describes himself as a "born...
Halfway to Heaven: My White-Knuckled-...
Mark ObmascikFat, forty-four, father of three sons, and facing a vasectomy, Mark Obmascik would never have guessed that his next move would be up a 14,000-foot mountain. But when his twelve-year-old son gets bitten by the climbing bug at summer ca...
"If you've run out of Saint-Exupery and miss the eloquent power of his work, then you are ready to read David Roberts." ―Laurence Gonzales, author of Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies and WhyDavid Roberts has spent his ca...
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, a...
Mark Synnott***NPR Books We Love selection*** “If you’re only going to read one Everest book this decade, make it The Third Pole. . . .A riveting adventure.”—Outside Shivering, exhausted, gasping for oxygen, beyon...
K2: Life and Death on the World's Mos...
Ed ViestursA thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of No Shortcuts to the TopAt 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 th...
The Will to Climb: Obsession and Comm...
Ed ViestursAs a high school student, Ed Viesturs read and was captivated by the French climber Maurice Herzog's famous and grisly account of the first ascent of Annapurna in 1950. When he began his own campaign to climb the world's 14 highest pe...
One Mountain Thousand Summits: The Un...
Freddie WilkinsonThe account of one of the deadliest and most mysterious tragedies in mountaineering history-the 2008 K2 disaster. One Mountain Thousand Summits reveals the true story of the K2 tragedy that claimed the lives of eleven men. Based on hi...