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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)
DescriptionNonfictionLarge Print Edition* A New York Times BestsellerA brilliantly told story, and one this wont go begging when the years literary honors are doled out. starred, Kirkus ReviewsA gripping story of a 1996 expedition gone awry. starred, Publishers WeeklyWhen Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, ...
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ManufacturerG. K. Hall & Company
Categories Biographies & Memoirs   General   Mountain Climbing   Essays & Travelogues   Hardcover   Large Print   Printed Books  
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Official Guides to the Appalachian Trail)
DescriptionBack in America afterwards twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself together with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT proposes an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer together with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it in addition offers ...
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BrandLiberty Mountain
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Mountain Climbing   Essays & Travelogues   General   East South Central   Paperback   Printed Books  
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills
DescriptionThe "climber's bible"--now updated in a new 7th edition

From choosing equipment to how to tie a particular knot; from basic rappelling technique to planning an expedition; it's all here in this necessary mountaineering reference.

· Extra than 500,000 copies sold in previous editions
· Written by a team of extra than 40 experts ...

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ManufacturerMountaineers Books
Categories General AAS   Textbooks Trade-In   Mountain Climbing   Rock Climbing   General   Paperback   Printed Books  
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
DescriptionA thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's much difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of No Shortcuts to the Top

At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate ...
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BrandRandom
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Instructional   Mountain Climbing   General   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
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In this collection, Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled together with solo madness to scale Alaska's notorious Devil's Thumb.
No matter what the actual temperature may be, several pages into Eiger Dreams you will initiate to shiver. Halfway throughout you will acquire a new ...
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ManufacturerThe Lyons Press
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Mountain Climbing   General   Essays & Travelogues   Paperback   Printed Books  
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
DescriptionThis gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.

For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, not including the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to the Top ...
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ManufacturerBroadway
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Memoirs   General   Mountain Climbing   Paperback   Printed Books  
Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain
DescriptionWinter recreation in the backcountry has increased steadily over the years and so has the number of deaths and injuries caused by avalanches. As search and rescue teams are increasingly strapped for funding, self-education has become a big necessity for snow-sport enthusiasts. The new edition of Bruce Tremper's seminal book is organized ...
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Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Instructional   Mountain Climbing   General   Paperback   Printed Books  
Touching The Void
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ManufacturerVintage
Categories Mountain Climbing   General   Paperback   Printed Books  
Wilderness Navigation: Finding Your Way Using Map, Compass, Altimeter & Gps (Mountaineers Outdoor Basics)
Description·GPS chapter fully updated to reflect newer models and features of GPS receivers now available
·Extended to contain a section on routefinding on glaciers, along together with additional information on varying declination
·Widespread illustrated examples of orientation and navigation

Proceed together with confidence when heading off-road or ...

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ManufacturerMountaineers Books
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Instructional   Mountain Climbing   General   Paperback   Printed Books  
Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes
Description

The first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa teammate Tenzing Norgay is a familiar saga, but less well known are the tales of many other adventurers who in addition came to test their skills and courage against the world’s highest and much dangerous mountains. In this ...

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ManufacturerYale University Press
Categories Central Asia   Expeditions & Discoveries   History of Sports   Mountain Climbing   General   Paperback   Printed Books  
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