(Hardback)
By: Peter Laurenson
ISBN: 9781988538907
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: David Bateman Ltd
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A story about an unexpected friendship that grew between two families - one Kiwi, the other Sherpa. Beginning in 1988 with a trek in Nepal, immediately to the south of Mount Everest, a fascinating three-decade journey unfolded, as a keen traveller and photographer was enchanted by a place called Khumbu.
(Paperback)
By: Patrick Dean
ISBN: 9781639363032
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 8th December 2022
Publisher: Pegasus Books
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The captivating and heroic story of Hudson Stuckan Episcopalpriestand his team's history-making summit of Denali.
(Paperback)
By: Alex Honnold
ISBN: 9781529034424
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 14th November 2019
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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The palm-sweating terrifying memoir of the world's greatest free solo climber, Alex Honnold.
By: Matt Stieb
ISBN: 9780762487653
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Running Press
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Put on your mini climbing shoes and get ready to practice your climbing skills anywhere you wish with your very own Finger Rock Climbing kit!
(Paperback)
By: George Mallory
ISBN: 9780008702885
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains.
(Paperback, New edition)
By: Margret Grebowicz
ISBN: 9781912248933
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 11th May 2021
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
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On the 100th anniversary of the first attempt to climb Mt Everest,Margret Grebowicz shows how and why climbing and mountaineering are still important today.
(Paperback)
By: Robert Macfarlane
ISBN: 9781783786794
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2023
Publisher: Granta Books
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'The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman
(Paperback)
By: Robert Mads Anderson
ISBN: 9781988538549
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: David Bateman Ltd
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Robert Mads Anderson is an elite mountaineer with a solitary goal: to conquer Everest. After nearly getting killed on his first expedition, Anderson then led a team up a new route without oxygen or Sherpa support, climbed solo on the remote North Face and finally guided a team to the top of the world.
(Hardback)
By: Gavin Lang
ISBN: 9781988550374
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
Publisher: Potton & Burton
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This inspiring story of climbing New Zealand's 24 highest mountains is by mountain guide and photographer, Gavin Lang. Each climb is illustrated with his breathtaking mountaineering photography, while each story captures the tension and drama of mountaineering in Aotearoa, a must-read for anyone with a love of the Southern Alps.
(Paperback)
By: Ankit Babu Adhikari
ISBN: 9781788403344
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 11th May 2023
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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The untold stories of mountaineering achievements and tragedies - an oral history of the Sherpas.
(Paperback)
By: Craig Storti
ISBN: 9781529331554
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 12th May 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The seventy-one-year quest to find the world's highest mountain.
(Hardback)
By: Kelly Cordes
ISBN: 9781938340338
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Patagonia Books
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(Paperback, Main)
By: Anna Fleming
ISBN: 9781838851798
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 2023
Publisher: Canongate Books
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A rock-climber's eye view of the natural world, tracing a geological and personal journey across the British Isles
(Paperback)
By: Jim Wickwire
ISBN: 9780671019914
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1999
Publisher: Atria Books
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(Paperback)
By: Daniel Arnold
ISBN: 9781582436166
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Counterpoint
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(Paperback)
By: Mr Peter Steele
ISBN: 9780094794801
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1999
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Peter Steele brings a self-effacing narrator to life by talking to family and friends and by looking thr ough hundreds of very personal letters written over five dec ades. '
(Paperback)
By: Christine Gee
ISBN: 9781846043949
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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On 29 May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first ever to set foot on the highest point on earth: the summit of Everest.
(Hardback)
By: Victoria Robinson
ISBN: 9781845201364
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Rock climbing is one of today's most popular 'extreme sports.' Although many women are involved, the sport retains a particularly male image and culture. This book presents a study of rock climbing in the UK, analysing what it reveals about the contemporary construction and performance of masculinity through sport.
(Paperback)
By: Victoria Robinson
ISBN: 9781845201371
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Rock climbing is one of today's most popular 'extreme sports.' Although many women are involved, the sport retains a particularly male image and culture. This book presents a study of rock climbing in the UK, analysing what it reveals about the contemporary construction and performance of masculinity through sport.
(Paperback)
By: Jim Curran
ISBN: 9781841192611
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2000
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A biography of Sir Chris Bonington
(Paperback)
By: Ed Viesturs
ISBN: 9780767932608
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2010
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2010
Publisher: Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
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The deadly history of the world's most-dangerous mountain illuminates the many lessons both climbers and non-climbers alike can glean from K2, the aptly named Savage Mountain.
(Paperback)
By: Robert Page
ISBN: 9798350943368
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Ed Viesturs
ISBN: 9780767924719
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2008
UK Publication Date: 27th November 2007
Publisher: Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
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This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.
(Paperback)
By: Paul Gilchrist
ISBN: 9781526179166
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This ground-breaking title, publishing to mark the centenary of the tragic 1924 British Everest expedition, reveals the hidden histories of the worlds highest mountain.
