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Author
Publisher
St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Talks to spouses, parents, children, and other loved ones of mountaineers about the effects of climbers' long absences and consuming interests on families and relationships and the devastation experienced by those at home when a climb goes terribly wrong.
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
For readers of Into Thin Air, riveting high-altitude drama and the passion and drive that inspire outsized mountaineering achievements.
Master of Thin Air opens with a fall that the author very nearly could not stop down an almost vertical rock ramp leading to a three-thousand-foot drop. The qualities that saved him then on K2-in addition to his mountaineering know-how and sheer good luck-drove his sixteen-year journey to summit all of the world's...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Erik Weihenmayer is the first and only blind person to summit Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. Descending carefully, he and his team picked their way across deep crevasses and through the deadly Khumbu Icefall; when the mountain was finally behind him, Erik knew he was going to live. His expedition leader slapped him on the back and said something that would affect the course of Erik's life: "Don't make Everest the greatest thing you ever...
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace
Pub. Date
2011, 2009.
Language
English
Description
"... the lessons learned on the "Big E" were universal to people seeking to overcome difficulties in life or simply to edge a little closer to their human potential. Lessons From Everest describes seven lessons, each a stepping stone to greater understanding and awareness of the reader's inner journey to their own "Everest" with a healthy dose of seat-of-your-pants adventure."--Amazon website.
Author
Publisher
Girl Friday Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Defiance had provoked Thompson to enter the male-dominated world of high-altitude mountaineering, but defiance could only take her so far. After a harrowing battle with cancer, Lisa realized she needed to understand what motivated her to take greater and greater risks in the mountains. Finding Elevation chronicles Thompson's path from novice climber to world-class mountaineer, as she becomes the second American woman to summit K2, which is considered...
14) Beyond limits
Publisher
FilmWorks Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
At 19,340 feet, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa is the tallest free-standing mountain in the world and a daunting climb for any person to attempt. Born with cerebral palsy, Bonner Paddock, not a mountain climber by his own admission and with only a few months of training under his belt, disregards his doctor's advice in the hopes of defying his condition and raising money for charity at the same time. Despite a weak lower body and spastic leg...
Publisher
Combel Editorial
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
Profiles individuals who pursued their dreams and embarked on epic adventures in physically extreme environments, featuring the stories of Marco Polo, Ernest Shackleton, Amelia Earhart, Thor Heyerdahl, and Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mountaineers Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"As 'Fall of Heaven' begins, we join professional mountain guide Jean Antoine Carrel as he tries and fails, again and again, to summit the Matterhorn, one of the most famous and iconic peaks in the Alps. Is it the Devil's mountain, as the locals call it? Should he heed the village priest who warned that its summit was not meant to be climbed? Carrel is undeterred, he just needs capable climbers to join him. Enter Edward Whymper, who in 1861 at the...
