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Meetings with Mountains: Remarkable face-to-face encounters with the world's peaks
| Author: | Stephen Venables |
| Publisher: | Cassell |
| Catalogue number: | 148792 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 3 weeks |
Stephen Venables, the acclaimed mountaineer and first Briton to scale Everest without oxygen, brings together climbers, walkers, historians and journalists to provide accounts of some of the most fantastic...
Mountains from Space: Peaks and Ranges of the Seven Continents
| Publisher: | Harry N Abrams |
| Catalogue number: | 136164 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 3 weeks |
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...
| Author: | Stephen Venables |
| Publisher: | Cassell |
| Catalogue number: | 168793 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
“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...
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