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  • Wild Country

    The man who made Friends

    by Mark Vallance ...
    Shortlisted: 2016 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature'[Wild Country] chronicles not just the mountains [Mark] has climbed, but the part he played in bringing to market a little piece of sporting equipment that revolutionised mountaineering and saved countless lives.' – Sarah Freeman, Yorkshire PostIn early 1978, an extraordinary new invention for rock climbers was featured on the BBC ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • No Shortcuts to the Top

    Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks

    by Ed Viesturs, David Roberts ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This gripping and triumphant memoir from the author of The Mountain follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.“From the drama of the peaks, to the struggle of making a living as a professional climber, to the basic how-tos of life at 26,000 feet, No Shortcuts to the Top is fascinating reading.” ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Left for Dead

    My Journey Home from Everest

    by Beck Weathers, Stephen G. Michaud ...
    With a new preface by the author • As featured in the upcoming motion picture Everest, starring Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Emily Watson, Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, and Jake Gyllenhaal“I can tell you that some force within me rejected death at the last moment and then guided me, blind and stumbling—quite literally a dead man walking—into camp and the shaky start of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Two Years Before the Mast

    by Richard H. Dana ...
    Series series Halcyon Classics
    Sailing to California from Boston around Cape Horn, TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST is both an adventure and an eloquent account of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. Richard Henry Dana is only nineteen when he escapes the patrician world of Boston and Harvard for the arduous voyage. The result is an astonishing book, filled with vivid descriptions of storms, whales, and the ship's mad captain ... Read more

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  • Beyond the Deep

    The Deadly Descent into the World's Most Treacherous Cave

    by William Stone, Barbara am Ende, Monte Paulsen ...
    Two members of a team who descended into the Huautla cave complex in Mexico describe their perilous and deadly trek into one of the world's deepest caves.The Huautla in Mexico is the deepest cave in the Western Hemisphere, possibly the world. Shafts reach skyscraper-depths, caverns are stadium-sized, and sudden floods can drown divers in an instant.With a two-decade obsession, William Stone and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Push

    A Climber's Search for the Path

    by Tommy Caldwell ...
    **A New York Times BestsellerA dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, the first person to free climb the Dawn Wall of Yosemite’s El Capitan“The rarest of adventure reads: it thrills with colorful details of courage and perseverance but it enriches readers with an absolutely captivating glimpse into how a simple yet unwavering resolve can turn adversity into reward.” ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Finding Jim

    by Susan Oakey-Baker ...
    Finding Jim describes Susan Oakey-Baker’s struggle to confront the realities of life after the death of her husband, renowned mountain guide Jim Haberl, the first Canadian to summit the most difficult mountain in the world: K2. For fifteen years they had spent time adventuring together around the world: skiing the Himalaya, rafting in Nepal and mountaineering in North America. In time, they got ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Surviving Logan

    by Erik Bjarnason, Cathi Shaw ...
    One mountaineer’s harrowing story of survival and recovery after being trapped on the second-highest peak in North America, Mount Logan in the Yukon Territory, during an extratropical cyclone.In May of 2005, North Shore Rescue put together a 40th Anniversary Expedition to Mount Logan. The team was made up of seven men and one woman – all experienced mountaineers and search & rescue personnel. The ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Citizen Hughes

    The Power, the Money and the Madness of the Man portrayed in the Movie THE AVIATOR

    by Michael Drosnin ...
    Portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the Martin Scorsese movie The Aviator, Howard Hughes is legendary as a playboy and pilot—but he is notorious for what he became: the ultimate mystery man. Citizen Hughes is the New York Times bestselling exposé of Hughes’s hidden life, and a stunning revelation of his “megalomaniac empire in the emperor’s own words” (Newsweek).At the height of his wealth, power, ... Read more

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  • Fifty Percent of Mountaineering is Uphill

    The Life of Canadian Mountain Rescue Pioneer Willi Pfisterer

    by Susanna Pfisterer ...
    Winner of the 2017 Alberta Readers' Choice Award!Fifty Percent of Mountaineering Is Uphill is the enthralling true story of Jasper’s Willi Pfisterer, a legend in the field of mountaineering and safety in the Rocky Mountains. For more than thirty years, Willi was an integral part of Jasper’s alpine landscape, guiding climbers up to the highest peaks, and rescuing them from perilous situations. ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Warnings against Myself

    Meditations on a Life in Climbing

    by David Stevenson ...
    From his youthful second ascent of the north ridge of Mount Kennedy in the Yukon’s Saint Elias Range, an in-and-out on skis for which he had not entirely learned how to ski, to a recent excursion across the Harding Icefield conceived under the influence of rain and whiskey, David Stevenson chronicles several decades of a life unified by a preoccupation with climbing. Reflective and literary, and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • In the Shadow of Ben Nevis

    by Ian Sykes ...
    In 1959, sixteen-year-old Ian 'Spike' Sykes left school and, after a short period of work at Leeds University, joined the RAF. Already a keen climber, he signed up on the promise of excitement and adventure and was posted to the remote RAF Kinloss Mountain Rescue Team in the north of Scotland. It was the beginning of a journey which would see him involved in some of the most legendary call-outs in ... Read more

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