Search Results for ‘Nepal’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 14 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...

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...

The Snow Leopard

In 1973 the author journeyed with George Schaller, a field biologist, to Crystal Mountain in the Himalayas, to study the wild blue sheep of the region. They also hoped to see the rare snow leopard, an...

Magic Bus

In the 1960s hundreds of thousands of young Westerners, inspired by Kerouac and the Beatles, blazed the 'hippie trail' overland from Istanbul to Kathmandu in search of enlightenment and a bit of cheap...

High Adventure

All courageous attempts by man to reach the summit of Everest by heading up the northern side from Tibet had failed. The southern approach through Nepal had never before been climbed, due to its impossibly...

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...

View from the Summit

Despite the tourist assault on Everest in recent times there is still no denying the awesome power of this mountain, and staggering achievement of climbing to the summit. For Sir Edmund Hillary to be...

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...

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...

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...