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  • Mountain Conquests: Thirteen Unforgettable Reads

    Classic Alpine and Himalayan Tales of Exploration, Endurance, Snowcraft, and Sublime Adventure

    by W. H. Le Mesurier, George Ingle Finch, C. G. Bruce, Norman Collie, Arnold Lunn, Michael T. H. Sadler, Julian S. Huxley, Norman Egerton Young, Hugh Kingsmill Lunn, H. E. G. Tyndale, N. T. Huxley, H. R. Pope, Arnold H. M. Lunn, William Martin Sir Conway, Hudson Stuck, Owen Glynne Jones, Aubrey Mrs. Le Blond, George Edward Mannering ...
    Mountain Conquests: Thirteen Unforgettable Reads gathers adventurous writing at the meeting point of travel narrative, mountaineering memoir, natural history, and reflective essay. Its selections trace mountains not merely as geographical obstacles but as arenas for scientific observation, bodily endurance, aesthetic wonder, and ethical self-scrutiny. Vivid ascent narratives, accounts of difficult ... Read more

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  • The Climber's Collection: 6 Classic Books on Mountaineering

    Classic Essays and Expeditions in Alpine and Himalayan Climbing

    by George Ingle Finch, Norman Collie, Arnold Lunn, Michael T. H. Sadler, Julian S. Huxley, Norman Egerton Young, Hugh Kingsmill Lunn, H. E. G. Tyndale, N. T. Huxley, H. R. Pope, Arnold H. M. Lunn, C. G. Bruce, W. H. Le Mesurier ...
    The Climber's Collection gathers six classic books of mountaineering into a capacious record of ascent, risk, observation, and imagination. Across expedition narrative, practical reflection, scientific description, travel writing, and philosophical meditation, the volume traces climbing's transformation from Victorian adventure into a modern discipline of skill and endurance. Accounts of high ... Read more

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  • Climbing on the Himalaya and Other Mountain Ranges

    Thrilling Tales of High Altitude Adventures

    by Norman Collie ...
    In "Climbing on the Himalaya and Other Mountain Ranges," Norman Collie presents an evocative synthesis of personal narratives and detailed observations of mountaineering expeditions, particularly his thrilling adventures in the Himalayas. The book is characterized by its rich, descriptive prose and a sense of immediacy, reflecting the physical and emotional challenges faced by climbers. Within the ... Read more

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  • Climbing on the Himalaya and Other Mountain Ranges (Illustrated)

    by Norman Collie ...
    At some future date, how many years hence who can tell? all the wild places on the earth will have been explored. The Cape to Cairo railway will have brought the various sources of the Nile within a few days' travel of England; the endless fields of barren ice that surround the poles will have yielded up their secrets; whilst the vast and trackless fastnesses of that stupendous range of mountains ... Read more

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    The Complete Writings of George Leigh Mallory

    by George Leigh Mallory ...
    'Compelling pieces.' Stephen Venables, Mail on Sunday 'Invaluable... [a] surprise it has taken so long to see the light of day.' National Geographic 'Expressive and emotionally literate.' Scottish Mountaineer In Climbing Everest, George Mallory (18 June 1886 - 8/9 June 1924), possibly the first man to summit Everest, takes us with him on his climbs in Britain and the Alps, culminating in his three ... Read more

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  • Climbs & Exploration In the Canadian Rockies

    by Hugh E.M. Stutfield ...
    Series Book 2 - Mountain Classics Collection
    First published in 1903, Climbs & Exploration in the Canadian Rockies details the mountaineering adventures of Hugh Stutfield and J. Norman Collie while the two were together during various explorations in the area north of Lake Louise, Alberta. Between 1898 and 1902, Stutfield and Collie journeyed through the mountain towns, valleys and passes of the Rockies, where Collie completed numerous first ... Read more

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  • Nanda Devi

    Nanda Davi Exploration and Ascent Book 1

    by Eric Shipton ...
    Series Book 1 - Eric Shipton: The Mountain Travel Books
    'When a man is conscious of the urge to explore, not all the arduous journeyings, the troubles that will beset him and the lack of material gains from his investigations will stop him.' Nanda Devi is one of the most inaccessible mountains in the Himalaya. It is surrounded by a huge ring of peaks, among them some of the highest mountains in the Indian Himalaya. For fifty years the finest ... Read more

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  • Blank on the Map

    Pioneering exploration in the Shaksgam valley and Karakoram mountains

    by Eric Shipton ...
    Series Book 2 - Eric Shipton: The Mountain Travel Books
    '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 ... Read more

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  • The Ascent of Nanda Devi

    I believe we so far forgot ourselves as to shake hands on it

    by H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Book 3 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    In 1934, after fifty years of trying, mountaineers finally gained access to the Nanda Devi Sanctuary in the Garhwal Himalaya.Two years later an expedition led by H.W. Tilman reached the summit of Nanda Devi. At over 25,000 feet, it was the highest mountain to be climbed until 1950.The Ascent of Nanda Devi, Tilman's account of the climb, has been widely hailed as a classic. Keenly o... ... Read more

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  • Upon that Mountain

    The first autobiography of the legendary mountaineer Eric Shipton

    by Eric Shipton ...
    Series Book 3 - Eric Shipton: The Mountain Travel Books
    Upon that Mountain is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer Eric Shipton. In it, he describes all his pre-war climbing, including his Everest bids of the 1930s, and his second Karakoram survey in 1939, when he returned to Snow Lake to complete the mapping of the ranges flanking the Hispar and Choktoi glacier systems around the Ogre. Crossing great swathes of the Himalaya, the ... Read more

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  • Climbing Nanga Parbat - The History of Mountaineering Expeditions to One of the Highest Peaks in the Himalayas

    by Various ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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  • Nepal Himalaya

    The most mountainous of a singularly mountainous country.

    by H.W. Tilman ...
    Series Book 13 - H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition
    Throughout 1949 and 1950 H.W. 'Bill' Tilman mounted pioneering expeditions to Nepal and its Himalayan mountains, taking advantage of some of the first access to the country for Western travellers in the 20th century. Tilman and his party—including a certain Tenzing Norgay—trekked into the Kathmandu Valley and on to the Langtang region, where the highs and lows began.They first explored the ... ... Read more

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