50th anniversary edition. Everest the highest peak in the world, the ultimate challenge to a mountaineers skill and endurance. It had been climbed before, but never like this. Chris Bonington and his team had ambitions to climb it the hard way. Ev...Lasīt vairāk
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Rock climber, writer, and lecturer Venables, the first Briton to climb Mount Everest without oxygen, profiles a sizable list of climbers who are credited with first ascents of summits and other challenging heights in mountain ranges across the globe....Lasīt vairāk
John Allen spent more than thirty years in the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team. in his mountaineering classic Cairngorm John, he shares stories of life and death, alongside discussions of hypothermia, first aid, new technology and rescue dogs. A must-...Lasīt vairāk
Following a remarkable year of climbing, Peter Boardmans last book Sacred Summits recounts his trips to the South Face of the Carstensz Pyramid in New Guinea, Kangchenjunga and Gauri Sankar....Lasīt vairāk
Peter Boardman planned to tackle the unclimbed West Wall of Changabang in 1976. This was perhaps the most fearsome and technically challenging granite wall in the Garhwal Himalaya. Amusing, lucidly descriptive, and immensely readable, The Shining Mou...Lasīt vairāk
Everest the Cruel Way is Taskers story of an attempt to climb the highest mountain on earth, without supplemental oxygen, and in winter. Taskers epic account vividly describes experiences that no climber had previously encountered or endured....Lasīt vairāk
Savage Arena is an inspirational tale of the adventuring spirit which follows its own path. Tasker vividly describes the first British winter ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the first ascent of the West Wall of Changabang and his two unsuccess...Lasīt vairāk
For Chris Bonington and Charles Clarke, long-time friends and expedition partners, few mountains were more alluring than Sepu Kangri. Known locally as the Great White Snow God, Tibets nearly 7,000-metre mountain had never b...Lasīt vairāk
It was Kongur that dominated everything, and was the focus of our gaze and aspirations.So thought Chris Bonington upon the Chinese Mountaineering Associations decision to open many of Tibet and Chinas mountains to foreigners in t...Lasīt vairāk
When leading mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington was researching Quest for Adventure, his study of post-war adventure, he contacted Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the first person to sail single-handed and non-stop around the world, for...Lasīt vairāk
In February 1966, two teams planned the first direct ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, long renowned as the most dangerous climb in the Swiss Alps. The race was on and triumph or tragedy awaited. Award-winning writer Peter Gillman and...Lasīt vairāk
This hillwalking and photo-location guidebook features stunning mountain photography that provides inspiration and motivation, as well as being studies in composition and light to learn from....Lasīt vairāk
The complete life story of arguably Britains greatest mountaineer, whose career has spanned six decades of climbing peaks, across all continents and still being able to summit The Old Man of Hoy aged eighty years of age in 2015....Lasīt vairāk
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The complete life story of arguably Britains greatest mountaineer, whose career has spanned six decades of climbing peaks, across all continents and still being able to summit The Old Man of Hoy aged eighty years of age in 2015....Lasīt vairāk
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The complete life story of arguably Britains greatest mountaineer, whose career has spanned six decades of climbing peaks, across all continents and still being able to summit The Old Man of Hoy aged eighty years of age in 2015....Lasīt vairāk
Quest for Adventure is a collection of stories written by Sir Chris Bonington looking at the adventurous impulse which has driven men and women to achieve the impossible in the face of Earths elements: crossing its oceans, de...Lasīt vairāk
Sir Chris Bonington is a household name as a result of his distinguished mountaineering career during which he has lead pioneering expeditions to the summits of some of the most stunning mountains in the world. The Eve...Lasīt vairāk
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Peter Boardman planned to tackle the unclimbed West Wall of Changabang in 1976. This was perhaps the most fearsome and technically challenging granite wall in the Garhwal Himalaya. Amusing, lucidly descriptive, and immensely readable, The Shining Mo...Lasīt vairāk
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Three sacred mountains, three very different expeditions, all superbly captured by Boardman in Sacred Summits, his second book, first published in 1982. Combining the excitement of extreme climbing with acute observation of life in the mountains, thi...Lasīt vairāk
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Savage Arena is an inspirational tale of the adventuring spirit which follows its own path. Tasker vividly describes the first British winter ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the first ascent of the West Wall of Changabang and his two unsucces...Lasīt vairāk
