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 The Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory
"The book is a magnificent portrait of the most famous mountaineer in history, and certainly the most incisive dissection of his complex character that has yet been achieved. Better than all of that, it is beautifully written and compelling; a tribute to the journalistic craftsmanship of Peter Gilman."
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The Shining Mountain
“It is very good—an exciting tale well told, giving a real insight into what it is like out at the front. This was one of the hardest routes so far tackled among big mountains. The resulting gripping story is a must for the mountaineer's bookshelf, if indeed he has any room remaining on it.”
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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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Thin Air: Encounters
in the Himalayas
"It is a remarkable book, full of thoughts and reflection yet never indulging in excessive introspection, full of strong feeling yet never sentimental. There are some fascinating portraits of contemporary climbers."
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We Aspired
"We Aspired appears twenty years after the last events it describes have taken place: events people, landscape, movement, and emotion percolating in memory for years, until Sinclair could find their essences in language. In this book the great days are recounted with a rare precision and grace commensurate to the task."
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The Endless Knot
"This is not so much a mountaineering book as a love story. A story of the love between a man and a woman and their passion for mountains. A soliloquy rather than a narrative, a story of death and disaster with few heroes." |
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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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Second Ascent: The Story of Hugh Herr
"Prepare to be alternately inspired, horrified, and—ultimately—impressed by Second Ascent. (...) the story of Hugh Herr is a memorable read on par with the best biographical literature written."
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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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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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The Ascent
"It is quite simply the best mountaineering novel we have ever read. It is a deceptive book, written as a thriller and marketed as an airport novel. The plot is so gripping that it carries the reader through the subtle mysteries of the relationships, symbolism and political manoeuvrings at a first reading." |
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Flammes de Pierre
"The name of this book of sixteen short stories—which literally means Flames of Rock—refers to the ridge of pinnacles which radiate from Les Drus, in Chamonix. The author has climbed around Chamonix for many years and has absorbed the spirit and the quirks of the climbing scene there—at least the French side of it." |
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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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Great American
Rock Climbs
"Richard DuMais tackles a topic paradoxically simple and difficult in his Great American Rock Climbs by attempting to chronicle a sampling of the great climbing of all grades and types to be found throughout the United States." |
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Hueco Tanks:
Climbing and Bouldering Guide
"If Hemingway had ever written a climbing guide then perhaps the result would have been somewhat like the new Hueco Tanks climbing and bouldering guide. A guide that does more than justice to and keeps in character with 'the best bouldering anywhere'." |
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