Search Results for ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Climbing Travel Writing’ - 19 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...

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...

The Ascent of Rum Doodle

First published in 1956, The Ascent of Rum Doodle quickly became established as a mountaineering classic. As an outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, many thought...

The White Spider

Heinrich Herrer, author of Seven Years in Tibet, was a member of the four-man party that scaled the previously unconquered North Wall of the Eiger in 1938. In this book he tells the story of this harrowing...

Touching the Void

Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the 21,000ft Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June 1985. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck, leaving...

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 teams 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...

Killing Dragons

“Killing Dragons” is the most hair-raising, hilarious account of the birth of mountaineering ever written.
Above the pastures of Switzerland, it was long believed, dragons and ghosts inhabited the realms...

Shisha Pangma

Storms of Silence

From an avalanche that wiped out his base camp to an encounter with a band of Khampas fleeing the Chinese occupation of Tibet, Joe simpson draws upon his own experiences to write this moving and far...

The Beckoning Silence

Since the epic tale of his survival in the Andes, recounted in Touching the Void, Simpson has lived a life full of adventure but haunted by death. Insisting that he played a simple game on a dangerous...

The Quotable Climber

A unique and entertaining survey of climbing literary featuring citations from some of the world's leading mountaineering figures and writers. Sure to be enjoyed by enthusiasts and armchair adventurers...

This Game of Ghosts

Touching the Void was Joe Simpson's account of his near fatal accident on Peru's Siula Grande. He never expected to be in the same situation again. However fate had other ideas and later in the Himalayas...

Nanda Devi - A Journey to the Last Sanctuary

Until 1934 the Nanda Devi Sanctuary had never been visited by human beings. Surrounded by 20,000 foot peaks which effectively seal off the mountain at their centre it is virtually impenetrable. But...

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...