Search Results for ‘Mount Everest’, ‘Sports - Outdoor’ - 18 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...

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 - A Trekker's Guide

The guide describes treks from Jiri to Namche Bazaar, from Namche Bazaar to Lobuche,Gorak Shep and Kala Pattar, from Namche Bazaar to Gokyo.
About this series: Widely varied range of compact walking...

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...

Trekking in the Everest Region

A practical section at the beginning has everything the trekker needs to plan in advance: trekking agencies, time planning, route options, advice for travellers on a budget, equipment. This is followed...

Island Peak (Imja Tse)

Very detailed, topographic map of the area around Island Peak (Imja Tse), with contours at 40-metre intervals, relief shading, graphic relief and spot heights. The map also indicates different types...

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...

Nepal: NGS Adventure Maps

Waterproof and tear-resistant trekking maps of Nepal’s most popular hiking areas: Mt Everest, the wider Khumbu Himal region, Annapurna and Langtang. The maps were prepared by the NGS/Trails Illustrated...

Nepal: Schneider Trekking Maps

Selected trekking areas of Nepal in a series of detailed maps prepared by E. Schneider and edited by Arbeitsgemeinschaft für vergleichende Hochgebirgsforschung in Germany. For several decades these...

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...

Mount Qomolangma (Sagarmatha/Mount Everest)

High quality survey map of the area around Mount Qomolangma (Mount Everest). The map extends north and east to the heads of the trails on the Tibetan side, and south to Pangboche. Makalu and Cho Oyu...

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...

Nepal: 50K Topographic Survey Maps

Topographic survey of Nepal at 1:50,000 published by the Nepali Government and produced from remote sensing data by Finnish cartographers as part of that country’s international aid program. The sheets...

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...