Search Results for ‘Asia’, ‘Climbing’ - 19 matches found

Nepal: Himalayan Maphouse Trekking Maps

Nepa Maps series providing extensive coverage of trekking areas of Nepal on detailed contoured maps with trekking routes and hiking trails, huts and camp sites, local places of interest and other tourist...

Annapurna

Since first publication, when it sold 400,000 copies, “Annapurna” has acquired classic status. It is the enthralling account, by the leader of the French expedition, of the first conquest of Annapurna...

Higher than the Eagle Soars

SIGNED COPIES! Stephen Venables is one of the greatest British climbers of his generation and he has now written a full autobiography - Higher than the Eagle Soars - A Path to Everest. He explores how...

Mountains from Space: Peaks and Ranges of the Seven Continents

The mountains have always been very special regions - the scenes of myths and the seats of the gods, spaces to retreat to and strategic bulwarks, but also places of natural and cultural diversity and...

First Ascent

“First Ascent” is a new history of mountaineering from one of the most distinguished living climbers, Stephen Venables. This richly illustrated book offers a chance to understand the development of...

Mount Everest

Mount Everest on a visually stunning map published by the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research, with its reverse side showing the summit area enlarged and overprinted with various ascent routes, plus...

The Wildest Dream

Winner of the Boardman-Tasker Award 2000
The discovery of the body of George Mallory on the wind-scoured North Face of Everest on 1st May 1999, marked the latest episode in a tale of heroism and tragedy...

Mount Everest

Mount Everest in a series of maps of Nepal published by the German and Austrian Alpine Clubs as part of their coverage of areas outside Europe. The map, edited in 1957 and last printed in 1999 has contours...

Inylchek (Tien Shan)

Exceptionally detailed and informative topographic map of the Tien Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzstan, prepared by the German Alpine Club using data from the Kyrgyz national survey organization and satellite...

Koh-e Keshnikhan

Detailed topographic map of the Koh-e-Keshnikhan massif and the surrounding valleys in the Hindu Kush panhandle of Afghanistan, compiled by the Austrian Scientific Expedition in the Wakhan in 1970.
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Koh-e Pamir

Detailed topographic map of the Koh-e Pamir massif and the Wakhan Valley in the Hindu Kush panhandle of Afghanistan, compiled in 1975 by Exploration Pamir 75 of the Austrian Scientific Research Program...

Into Thin Air

In 1996 Jon Krakauer joined a commercial expedition to the summit of Everest. As an accomplished climber and journalist his brief was to cover this new tourist phenomenon: guided expeditions to the...

Chris Bonington's Everest

Chris Bonington was the first to scale Everest by the south-west ridge. Since then he has taken part in three other expeditions. The book tells the story of his encounters with the mountain and it includes...

Dark Shadows Falling

In 1992 an Indian climber was left to die on Mount Everest, despite being just 30 metres or so from another climbing team's camp. The controversy sparked by this event and by the increasing abuse of...

Everest: The MEF Authorised 50th Anniversary Volume

Everest puts the first successful ascent into context, detailing the adventures and tragedies that occurred during the early expeditions, and providing a full account of the 1953 expedition and the...

Facing Up

Account of the ascent that made Bear Grylls the youngest person to climb Everest and return alive.

Ghosts of Everest

The story of the 1999 Everest expedition to find the bodies of Mallory and Irvine. Mallory and Irvine attempted to climb Everest in 1924 in order to become the first climbers to reach the summit. They...

Shisha Pangma

The Death Zone

Everest Base Camp 10th May 1996: "Glancing into the sky she became one of the first people to see what was sweeping up from the lower valleys towards Everest¿great billowing lilac clouds¿they stood...