Catálogo de libros: Escalada y montañismo

132 Catálogo de libros: Escalada y montañismo

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  • The Baruntse Adventure
    Mark Horrell
    Sherpa legend told of an enchanted valley with an invisible village, Shangri-La, that was said to be a place of great beauty.The valley became the nemesis of legendary mountaineer Edmund Hillary, who travelled there to climb 7,129m Baruntse, but succumbed to the irresistible draw of Makalu, the great black mountain which towered over the valley. Makalu vanquished him, and he wa...
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    9,79 €

  • From Dumyat to Mont Blanc
    Ian McNeish
    Born in the Central Scotland town of Bonnybridge, Ian McNeish may have seemed an unlikely climbing enthusiast. The closest ’peak’ to his home was Cowden Hill, which at an elevation of 55.4 metres is only the 14,650th highest in Britain! But from these early experiences on the hills, encouragement from friends and colleagues soon saw Ian embarking on a lifelong adventure which w...
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    12,57 €

  • The Ascent Of The Matterhorn
    Edward Whymper
    The Ascent Of The Matterhorn: With Maps And IllustrationsThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layo...
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    16,76 €

  • The Last Great Mountain
    Mick Conefrey
    The Last Great Mountain tells the story of the first ascent of Kangchenjunga the third highest but reputedly the hardest mountain  in the world. It was an astonishing achievement for a British team led by Everest veteran Charles Evans. Drawing on interviews, diaries and unpublished accounts, Mick Conefrey begins his story in 1905 with the first, disastrous attempt on the mounta...
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    26,43 €

  • Tibet’s Secret Mountain
    Charles Clarke / Chris Bonington
    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’, Tibet’s nearly 7,000-metre mountain had never before been visited by Westerners. Armed only with a tourist map for reference, the two set off for this elusive peak in 1996.In the reconnaissance and two...
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    14,15 €

  • The Hard Truth
    Kris Hampton
    A hard truth is still a truth.Becoming a better climber isn’t only about adding more weight to your max hang on a fingerboard or being able to deadlift 2x bodyweight. Frankly, what’s more important is that you understand your motivations, your approach, and that you’re honest with yourself about the amount of effort you put in - both on and off the wall.This collection of essay...
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    17,36 €

  • Kongur
    Chris Bonington
    ‘It was Kongur that dominated everything, and was the focus of our gaze and aspirations.’So thought Chris Bonington upon the Chinese Mountaineering Association's decision to open many of Tibet and China's mountains to foreigners in the 1980s. Not only did this mean that Kongur, China’s 7,719-metre peak, was available to climb, but that those choosing to do so would be a...
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    14,13 €

  • The Last Great Mountain
    Mick Conefrey
    The Last Great Mountain tells the story of the first ascent of Kangchenjunga the third highest but reputedly the hardest mountain  in the world. It was an astonishing achievement for a British team led by Everest veteran Charles Evans. Drawing on interviews, diaries and unpublished accounts, Mick Conefrey begins his story in 1905 with the first, disastrous attempt on the mounta...
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    18,20 €

  • Rock Climbing 101
    Brigitte Ngo-Trinh / HowExpert
    In recent years, there has been a huge influx of interest in climbing. Climbing gyms are popping up all over the place and new climbers are taking to the outdoors, but there aren’t enough old timers to pass on all of the necessary knowledge that comes with taking on such a sport. There is more to climbing than just going up a rock. Once you join the sport, you become part of a ...
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    37,10 €

  • The Evidence of Things Not Seen
    W.H. Murray / W.HMurray
    The Evidence of Things Not Seen is the autobiography of remarkable mountaineer, writer and environmentalist W.H. Murray. After being introduced to climbing in his early twenties, Murray’s relationship with the outdoors was shaped as much by his time on the mountains as away from them. His early Scottish climbs were brought to a halt by the Second World War, which saw him spend ...
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    18,39 €

  • Sea, Ice and Rock
    Chris Bonington / Robin Knox-Johnston
    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 an interview. This simple request turned into an exchange of skills, which then grew into a joint expedition to Greenland’s unexplored Lemon Mountains. S...
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    14,65 €

  • Eiger Direct
    Dougal Haston / Peter Gillman
    The North Face of the Eiger was long notorious as the most dangerous climb in the Swiss Alps, one that had claimed the lives of numerous mountaineers. In February 1966, two teams – one German, the other British–American – aimed to climb it by a new direct route. Astonishingly, the two teams knew almost nothing about each other’s attempt until both arrived at the foot of the fac...
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    14,58 €

  • Feet and Wheels to Chimborazo
    Mark Horrell
    His cheeks are as tender as raw meat on a butcher’s block. And those are just the cheeks of his face. As he slumps in the saddle, watching the road disappear into the distance, he aches in parts of his body that he’s only just discovering he has…When Mark travels to Ecuador to go hiking and climbing, he discovers a land of dramatic volcanoes rising through the clouds and wide-o...
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    14,19 €

  • Code 1244
    Ric Conrad
    In May 1986, a private preparatory school’s field trip made worldwide headlines. Twenty climbers began ascending what has arguably been called the second-most climbed mountain in the world—Oregon’s Mount Hood.Caught in one of the worst blizzards imaginable, they battled the elements while waiting for a rescue. The community responded by launching one of the largest mountain Sea...
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    21,42 €

  • Emergency Roping and Bouldering
    Sam Fury
    These Climbing Skills Will Save Your Life!This is not your usual rock-climbing book.Inside you will discover climbing self-rescue and bouldering techniques for survival.It is a 3-part manual:Knots. Discover how to tie 10 of the most useful knots there are.Emergency Roping. Learn how to use a rope to climb and rappel without any special equipment.Bouldering. Bouldering is climbi...
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    10,84 €

  • The US Army Rappelling Handbook - Military Abseiling Operations
    US Army
    TECHNIQUES, TRAINING AND SAFETY PROCEDURES FOR RAPPELLING FROM TOWERS, CLIFFS, MOUNTAINS, HELICOPTERS AND MORE Learn military rappelling skills that could help save lives - including your own! Current U.S. Army training doctrine. Full-size edition - large 8.5' x 11' format: clear, detailed text & illustrations. Complete & Unabridged. Supersedes the old TC 21-24 (1997). '...
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    13,36 €

  • North Wall
    Roger Hubank
    ‘Far off on the horizon the snowfields sparkled, and across the meadow the Piz Molino towered formidably above the glacier, its snow cone glittering in the pale blue sky.’North Wall is award-winning writer Roger Hubank’s first novel. The premise is one familiar to those with a thirst for adventure at high altitude: two men attempting to climb one of the world’s most challenging...
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    13,75 €

  • Climbing Higher
    PhD. Robert Wheeler
    Not  everyone climb mountains, however  stories of climbing adventures provide insight into the adventure of life that we all  share: overcoming  obstacles  and  reaching  out  to  something  bigger and higher than immediate daily activities. History and psychology indicate  that  this is a strong human need that includes having a sense of meaning and purpose. Mountains can sym...
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    14,28 €

  • Nanda Devi
    Eric Shipton
    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 year...
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    14,35 €

  • Rock Climbing Washington
    Jeff Smoot
    This updated edition of Rock Climbing Washington features more than 1,500 routes throughout the state of Washington. Explore the granite cliffs of Index, Leavenworth, Darrington, and Tieton River Canyon; tackle the exposed alpine routes on the spires at Washington Pass; or hang from steep sport climbs at North Bend, Frenchman Coulee, and Marcus and China Bend near Spokane. ...
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    39,35 €

  • Upon That Mountain
    Eric Shipton
    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 th...
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    14,29 €

  • Summits and Secrets
    Kurt Diemberger
    ‘A book grows rather like a snow crystal. One doesn’t write it from start to finish but, in greater or less degree, all at the same time … that is why my book is not in chronological order; for everything is of the present, held in the moment when thought captures it.’Kurt Diemberger’s Summits and Secrets is a mountaineering autobiography like no other. Writing anecdotally, Die...
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    16,50 €

  • Blank on the Map
    Eric Shipton
    '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...
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    14,31 €

  • Everest 1951
    Eric Shipton
    In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest. They climbed from the south, from Nepal, via the Khumbu Glacier – a route first pioneered in 1951 by a reconnaissance expedition led by Eric Shipton. Everest 1951 is the account of this expedition.It was the first to approach the mountain from the south side, it pioneered a route through the Khumbu ...
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    13,80 €

  • Strangers In The Storm
    Diane McKenney / Jared Rund
    Jared Rund and Diane McKenney were strangers when they set out to climb Mount Rainier, but they had one thing in common: they weren’t going to let anything stop them from reaching the mountain’s imposing 14, 411 foot summit, one of the tallest and most challenging peaks in the United States. But when a sudden storm swallowed the mountain and hid their trail, their weekend hike ...
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    17,75 €

  • Adventure Expedition One
    Aaron Linsdau / Terry M. Williams
    #1 Bestseller on Amazon (Feb 2019 in Mountaineering Guides)“Explorers must be self-contained and prepared for anything.”Expedition—An adventure into the extreme unknown where you will be tested to the limit.How do you set off on your first epic expedition? Where should you even start? This book has practical advice to help you begin planning your first trek. Dreaming, planning,...
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    19,20 €

  • Adventure Expedition One
    Aaron Linsdau / Terry M. Williams
    #1 Bestseller on Amazon (Feb 2019 in Mountaineering Guides)“Explorers must be self-contained and prepared for anything.”Expedition—An adventure into the extreme unknown where you will be tested to the limit.How do you set off on your first epic expedition? Where should you even start? This book has practical advice to help you begin planning your first trek. Dreaming, planning,...
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    30,36 €

  • Land of Tempest
    Eric Shipton
    ‘We discovered an easy pass to the head of the Ameghino Glacier, and climbed to the summit of a rock peak above it, where for three hours we sat in the warm sun gazing at a magnificent panorama of nameless mountains.’Land of Tempest reveals Shipton at his best – writing with enthusiasm and humour about his explorations in Patagonia in the 1950s and 1960s. He is an astute observ...
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    14,34 €

  • John Gill
    Pat Ament
    John Gill: Master of Rock is a captivating look into the life, achievements and ethos of boulderer John Gill. This new edition of the classic title is complete with photographs, personal impressions of Gill from climbers such as Yvon Chouinard, and an enlightening interview with Gill himself.Hailed the father of modern bouldering, John Gill is an awe-inspiring climber with enig...
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    14,35 €

  • Everest Trekking With Kids
    Neil Mundell
    This is an inspirational tale of one family’s international achievement in the face of adversity. In 2014, the Mundell family embarked on a spectacular adventure. After introducing their children to the thrills of mountaineering, they ascended to the Mt. Everest Base Camp in Tibet. The children, aged 6 and 7, became the youngest in the world to make such a trek. But their adven...
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    13,22 €


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