Search Results for ‘Asia’, ‘Sports - Outdoor’, ‘Climbing Travel Writing’ - 10 matches found

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...

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...

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...