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 K2: The Story of the
Savage Mountain
"There is a lesson in this book that should make it required reading for any mountaineer who contemplates K2 in his — or her — personal future. This mountain is only for the bold and the very competent." |
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Master of Rock: The Biography of John Gill
"The idea of someone who can climb levels harder than anyone else, which is what I had always heard about Gill, is completely intriguing. So when Master of Rock came out I was delighted and couldn't wait to read it (...)"
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Menlove: The Life
of John Menlove Edwards
“It should be said at once that Jim Perrin's new life, Menlove, is not just another book which climbers will want to have on their shelves, although it must come very high in that category. It is a remarkable biography, which deserves to be read by a public of whom many may even want to skip all the climbing bits..." |
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Mer de Glace
"(...) this is an intelligent, probing novel that won't be satisfied with the easy answers. It comes as close as anything I've read to understanding the daft, obsessive, turmoil of the normal climber." |
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Mixed Emotions
"Mixed Emotions is the follow-up to Greg Child's autobiographical Thin Air (...) Greg Child is undoubtedly one of the most gifted climbing writers in the World today with a vivid and compelling prose style that frequently had me on the edge of my mountaineer's armchair..." |
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Mountain Light
"Galen Rowell is a notable mountaineer and a talented and well travelled photojournalist. This book is a collection of eighty of his favourite photographs shot between 1970 - two years before he turned professional -and 1985 - by which time he had become probably the world's best known, certainly highest profile, adventure and wilderness photographer." |
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Mountaineering in Patagonia
"Alan Kearney has gone to climb in Patagonia five times. With the hard-won knowledge accrued from these exploits and from an obvious passion for these mountains, Kearney has undertaken the task of putting together a climbing source book on Patagonia." |
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Mountains of North America
"The author is eminently qualified to produce such a volume and well known for his breadth of knowledge of the area. He surveys thirty five areas and peaks and uses photographs by fifty nine of North America's best known mountain photographers."
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My Vertical World
"He was the second climber, after media star Reinhold Messner, to climb all 14 mountains in the Himalayan rosary of 8000-meter peaks. In My Vertical World, Jerzy Kukuczka reveals that he was indeed a very lucky climber, but also that he made his own luck through hard work, dogged determination, and inspired optimism. He was at once a singular, innovative, and unique adventurer." |
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Nanda Devi: The Tragic Expedition
"This is a book that tells the story of a harrowing and complex series of events that occurred on Nanda Devi in 1976; an expedition conceived by a father and his daughter, whose name was given in honour of the mountain: Nanda Devi Unsoeld"
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On Edge: The Life
& Climbs of Henry Barber
“Henry Barber will almost certainly be remembered as the outstanding international rock climber of the 1970's. I say rock climber because, with respect for his adventures elsewhere in the mountains, it was on rock that Henry made his mark."
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On Ice
"On Ice" is a solid hour of high-quality video. From its opening footage in Alberta, Canada, to Colorado’s Ouray Ice park to Torre Egger, Patagonia, "On Ice" shows today’s best ice aficionados in their element... |
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On the Edge of Europe
„On the Edge of Europe is a fine reminder of what the Caucasus has to offer(...)" “This book is the offspring of the 1991 Alpine Club Symposium and attempts to collect together in one volume the first distilled mountaineering history of the range since Freshfield almost a century ago." |
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Pushing the Limits
"Pushing the Limits is highly recommended for anyone interested in the evolution of North America climbing. (...) Scott somehow keeps the thousands of stories, mini-biographies, and photos together with his narrative, based in extensive, original research..." |
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Reinhold Messner Free Spirit
"Free Spirit is a hammer blow to those of us who have not achieved our full potential, to those of us who have settled for less or wasted our talent on things we never really wanted in the first place." |
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