Libros más populares en España●Montañismo

Esta colección de ensayos y artículos aparecidos en las revistas Outside y Smithsonian es la primera obra del autor de Hacia rutas salvajes . En ella se relatan varias aventuras verídicas ambientadas en los confines más recónditos, dispares y fríos del planeta, desde Alaska y Arizona hasta los Alpes, en pos de las cimas más altas y escarpadas: K2, McKinley, Denali, Everest, Eiger. Gracias a un agudísimo instinto para transmitir las dificultades y los desengaños inherentes a los deportes...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-05-05 8,99 €

Campiona del món de la Ultra Trail World, Núria Picas s'ha convertit en un referent per a esportistes , amants de la natura i tot tipus de persones que admirin l'esforç de superació. En aquest relat en primera persona, emotiu i emocionant , narra el seu recorregut esportiu des de la seva filosofia de vida, basada en la perseverança, la mentalitat positiva i la força de voluntat per superar obstacles. Una esportista compromesa i un exempla de passió i seny davant els grans reptes.

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-09-02 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 5,99 €

Tras la exitosa edición de Bajo los cielos de Asia, libro de corte autobiográfico de Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, Saga Editorial publica ahora una obra que refleja todos los detalles de la impresionante operación con la que se intentó salvar su vida en 2008. El título, Los catorce de Iñaki, se refiere tanto al número de ascensiones a ochomiles que había conquistado el himalayista navarro como al de escaladores de renombre mundial que no ahorraron esfuerzos y sacrificios para rescatarle tras hab...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-02-20 8,99 €

The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer's harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the summer of 1985, two young, headstrong mountaineers set off to conquer an unclimbed route.

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-12-12 4,99 €

Alcanzar la cumbre del Everest es un logro inmenso, bajar de ahí con vida lo es aún más. De cada seis montañistas que intentan esta cumbre, techo del mundo, uno pierde la vida; las más de las veces durante el descenso. Hugo Rodríguez Barroso plantó orgullosamente la bandera mexicana en la cúspide del coloso el 23 de mayo de 1997 a las 2:12 p. m.; un tanto tarde, en opinión de los puristas. Al iniciar el descenso una serie de eventos lo dejó atrapado a más de 8,600 metros de altitud. L...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-09-16 2,99 €

One of the finest mountaineering books. A phenomenal tale of strength and valour. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOE SIMPSON In 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000 meters had ever been climbed. Maurice Herzog and other members of the French Alpine Club resolved to try. This is the enthralling story of the first conquest of Annapurna and the harrowing descent. With breathtaking courage and grit manifest on every page, Annapurna is one of the greatest adventure stories ever told. As well as an introducti...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2010-02-23 9,49 €

El acelerado ritmo de vida actual parece haberse trasladado también hasta las cimas del mundo, que se están convirtiendo en foco de competitividad en muchos sentidos. Juanjo Garbizu prefiere, en cambio, subir al monte para vivir a un ritmo más calmado y de esta forma hacer posible momentos en que el tiempo deje de ser importante (por ello asciende sin reloj). Así disfruta de todo lo que le ofrece el paisaje, agudiza sus sentidos con la observación de la naturaleza y vive con intensidad la p...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-10-17 9,99 €

May 1996 began like most other climbing seasons on Mount Everest. The arrival of spring brought the usual pre-monsoon period, with teams of hopeful mountaineers ready to reach for the roof of the world. Among the dozens of climbers were Jon Krakauer and Anatoli Boukreev (who would both later write their own accounts of what followed) and Matt Dickinson. But on May 10, with ten different expeditions strung out along the mountain, the usual turned deadly. Suddenly, the temperature dropped from mer...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 1999-04-20 10,99 €

No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska's notorious Devils Thumb. In Pakistan, the fearsome K2 kills thirteen of the world's most experienced mountain climbers in one horrific summer. In Valdez, Alaska, two men scale a frozen waterfall over a fo...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-07-12 5,99 €

Si alguna vez al escalar has querido moverte sin esfuerzo y aprovechar al máximo la forma física que tanto te ha costado ganar, esta es la guía que estabas esperando. Mejorar en la escalada en roca no se trata de: fuerza, resistencia, flexibilidad o de horas dedicadas al entrenamiento repetitivo, ni tampoco tiene que ser un acto de equilibrio entre perder la forma física y lesionarse por un sobre-entrenamiento, ya que la escalada es esencialmente un deporte basado en habilidad; esta guía ca...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2022-05-01 19,99 €

Jon Krakauer ha seleccionado 8 artículos y 2 ensayos que narran desde una terrible avalancha en el Everest hasta cómo un volcán está punto de destruir una gran parte de Seattle; desde un programa de terapia para adolescentes en la naturaleza dirigido por unos aparentemente sádicos personajes hasta una cueva de otro mundo en Nuevo México, estudiada por la NASA para comprender mejor a Marte; desde el cuaderno de Fred Beckey, que catalogó las mejores rutas de montañismo sin escalar del plan...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2020-09-01 9,99 €

Released to coincide with the 60th Anniversary of the first ever ascent of Mount Everest and updated with a new introduction from Bear Grylls. On the 29th May 1953 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made history as they took their first triumphant steps on the top of the world. On 16 May 1998, Bear Grylls followed those same footsteps, achieving a childhood dream and entering the Guinness Book of Records , as the youngest Briton, at 23, to summit Mount Everest. Taken from his bestselling autobiog...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-05-20 2,49 €

With a new preface by the author • As featured in the upcoming motion picture Everest, starring Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Emily Watson, Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, and Jake Gyllenhaal   “I can tell you that some force within me rejected death at the last moment and then guided me, blind and stumbling—quite literally a dead man walking—into camp and the shaky start of my return to life.”   In 1996 Beck Weathers and a climbing team pushed ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2000-04-25 6,99 €

From world-renowned adventurer and bestselling author of The Art of Resilience and The World’s Fittest Book, comes the ultimate blueprint to building a bulletproof body. ‘He’s an animal’ CHRIS HEMSWORTH ‘The inner workings of a sports science genius’ EDDIE HALL, former World’s Strongest Man Ross Edgley has spent decades perfecting the principles and practice of extreme fitness to achieve the impossible. Following a career-threatening injury in 2018, Ross was forced to reassess his ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-09-02 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 21,99 €

Including two new chapters on Alex Honnold’s free solo ascent of the iconic 3,000-foot El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. On June 3rd, 2017, Alex Honnold became the first person to free solo Yosemite's El Capitan—to scale the wall without rope, a partner, or any protective gear—completing what was described as "the greatest feat of pure rock climbing in the history of the sport" (National Geographic) and "one of the great athletic feats of any kind, ever" (New York Times). Already one o...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-10-02 9,49 €

Andy Kirkpatrick is an award winning author and one of the UK’s leading big wall climbers, having made twenty four ascents of El Cap (including three solo ascents), as well as walls in the Alps, Patagonia, Norway and Antarctica - often by the hardest lines, and generally in winter. He has also specialised in solo climbing, with multiple ascents and ‘near ascents’ to his credit, on walls that many deemed too dangerous for hard solo ascents (Eiger North Face and Troll Wall for example). Me, ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-11-12 29,99 €

What does it take to be one of the world's best high-altitude mountain climbers? A lot of fundraising; traveling in some of the world's most dangerous countries; enduring cold bivouacs, searing lungs, and a cloudy mind when you can least afford one. It means learning the hard lessons the mountains teach. Steve House built his reputation on ascents throughout the Alps, Canada, Alaska, the Karakoram and the Himalaya that have expanded possibilities of style, speed, and difficulty. In 2005 Steve an...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-01-12 7,99 €

Mountaineering Methodology is a multimedia textbook intended for beginners and advanced climbers who wish to devote themselves to mountaineering in its various forms, whether rock climbing, artificial climbing walls, ascents in the mountains up rock, snow, and ice, or protected routes (klettersteig, via ferrata). Mountaineering Methodology is composed of several sections; each section is one book. That way the series follows an ideal path for the growing awareness of the beginning student of mou...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-03-17 3,99 €

Esta es la historia de un explorador que desde pequeño lucho contra las adversidades de la vida, contra sus propias limitaciones físicas y los paradigmas de su entorno para poder lanzarse tras su más preciado sueño que era escalar las montañas del Himalaya.  Como buen explorador a través de toda esta historia el protagonista busca continua e instintivamente conocer el Universo que le rodea, no se conforma con las opiniones de los demás, cuestiona los paradigmas del mundo contemporán...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-01-26 4,49 €

¡Descubre los únicos nudos que necesitarás! El Libro de Nudos Útiles es una guía práctica de nudos que enseña cómo atar los más de 25 nudos de cuerda más útiles. Viene con instrucciones fáciles de seguir, imágenes y consejos sobre cuándo es conveniente usar cada nudo. Puedes ser autodidacta y aprender a hacer nudos hoy mismo, ya que es fácil, divertido y útil. Consíguelo ahora. La guía más completa sobre nudos * Explicaciones sobre términos comunes de nudos y cuerdas * Instru...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2022-01-14 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 5,49 €

WINNER OF THE 2023 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is a warrior. I'm in awe of her strength and courage' - Selena Gomez 'An incredibly powerful story' Sunday Independent 'In the Shadow of the Mountain has all the elements a great memoir requires - a strong voice, cinematic prose, a hero to root for - in essence, an extraordinary story about an extraordinary woman's life' - San Francisco Chronicle 'Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is a woman possessed of uncommon strength, rar...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2022-02-03 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 9,49 €

"Kilian Jornet is the most dominating endurance athlete of his generation."—NEW YORK TIMES "Inspiring and humbling"— ALEX HONNOLD The most accomplished mountain runner of all time contemplates his record-breaking climbs of Mount Everest in this profound memoir—an intellectual and spiritual journey that moves from the earth’s highest peak to the soul’s deepest reaches. Kilian Jornet has broken nearly every mountaineering record in the world and twice been named National Geographic Adven...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2020-08-25 18,99 €

Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these ten gripping essays show why Jon Krakauer is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. His pieces take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mount Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a big chunk of Seattle; from a wilderness teen-therapy program run by apparent sadists to an otherworldly cave in New Mexico, studied by NASA to better understand Mars; from the notebook of one Fred Beckey, who catalogued the greatest unclim...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-02-27 7,49 €

WINNER OF THE 2016 EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 'Levison Wood has breathed new life into adventure travel.' Michael Palin 'Levison Wood is a great adventurer and a wonderful storyteller.' Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'Britain's best-loved adventurer... he looks like a man who will stare danger in the face and soak up a lot of pain without complaint.' The Times Following in in the footsteps of the great explorers, WALKING THE HIMALAYAS is Levison Wood's enthralling account of cr...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-01-04 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 0,99 €

Cesare Maestri, il ragno delle Dolomiti, uno fra i più grandi alpinisti di tutti i tempi, racconta le sue scalate memorabili e i momenti più importanti della sua esistenza: la storia di uno scalatore cui la montagna ha regalato grandi gioie ma anche inflitto profondi dolori e una riflessione di un uomo e di uno sportivo su se stesso sviluppata nella solitudine delle arrampicate e nel silenzio della notte. Un libro sull'alpinismo che ci parla di vita, di dolore, di morte e del rapporto con le p...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-10-10 6,99 €

ALLE ORIGINI DEL MITO MESSNER: LA STORIA DELLE IMPRESE CHE LO HANNO RESO IL PIÙ GRANDE. Nel 1975 sembrava una follia: salire un ottomila in due senza ossigeno e in stile alpino. In «La vita secondo me» Messner accenna all’impresa su cui ha costruito la sua fama e la sua filosofia di vita: il Gasherbrum I, salito insieme al compagno di cordata Peter Habeler. Ma al resoconto dettagliato e straordinariamente avvincente di questa impresa, inizialmente sbeffeggiata e addirittura osteggiata da tu...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-03-12 13,99 €

In 1999, Conrad Anker found the body of George Mallory on Mount Everest, casting an entirely new light on the mystery of the lost explorer. On 8 June 1924, George Leigh Mallory and Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine were last seen climbing towards the summit of Everest. The clouds closed around them and they were lost to history, leaving the world to wonder whether or not they actually reached the summit - some 29 years before Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay. On 1 May 1999, Conrad Anker, one of the world's...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-08-22 3,99 €

For generations of adventurers, from Mallory to Hilary, Norgay to Krakauer, Mount Everest and the world's greatest peaks have provided the ultimate testing ground. But as the public's fascination with mountaineering reaches an all time high, the question remains - why climb? In High Exposure, legendary rock climber, mountaineer and film-maker David Breashears answers with a captivating and intimate look at his life, during which he has scaled many of the world's highest peaks, including two succ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-01-23 10,99 €

K2 is the second highest mountain in the world, at 8611 metres only a couple of hundred metres lower than Everest. It is one of the most unrelenting and testing of the worlds 8000-metre peaks. Jim Curran came to K2 as a climbing cameraman with an unsuccessful British expedition, but stayed on through the climbing season. This is his account of the dramatic events of that summer, a story of ambitions both achieved and thwarted on a mountain which all high-altitude climbers take the most pride in ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-04-11 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 3,99 €

WINNER OF THE BOARDMAN TASKER PRIZE 2008 Metro magazine recently wrote that Andy Kirkpatrick makes Ray Mears look like Paris Hilton. Words like boldness, adventure and risk were surely coined especially for him. As one of the world's most accomplished mountaineers and big-wall climbers, he goes vertically where other climbers (to say nothing of the general public) fear to tread. For the first time, this cult hero of vertical rock has written a book, in which his thirteen-day ascent of Reticent W...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2008-11-02 9,49 €

Tigers of the Snow is true story of the tragedy and survival on one of the world's most dangerous mountains. In 1922 Himalayan climbers were British gentlemen, and their Sherpa and Tibetan porters were "coolies," unskilled and inexperienced casual laborers. By 1953 Sherpa Tenzing Norgay stood on the summit of Everest, and the coolies had become the "Tigers of the Snow." Jonathan Neale's absorbing book is both a compelling history of the oft-forgotten heroes of mountaineering and a gripping accou...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2002-06-29 10,99 €

In October 1972, Nando Parrado and his rugby club teammates were on a flight from Uruguay to Chile when their plane crashed into a mountain. Miraculously, many of the passengers survived but Nando's mother and sister died and he was unconscious for three days. Stranded more than 11,000 feet up in the wilderness of the Andes, the survivors soon heard that the search for them had been called off - and realise the only food for miles around was the bodies of their dead friends ... In a last despera...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2009-03-01 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 5,49 €

LICENCIA PARA ESCALAR se considera un libro único en el mundo de la escalada. Estamos muy orgullosos de ofrecer por fin una traducción al español. Para muchos, el primer trabajo de Udo Neumann ‘Licencia para escalar’ fue una revelación. Todos los elementos que han hecho de ’Licencia’ una excepción positiva entre los libros de escalada: la escritura divertida, los muchos ejemplos prácticos, el enfoque holístico del fenómeno del rendimiento de la escalada, se incluyen aquí nuevame...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2022-09-12 28,99 €

Über 8000 Meter ist er hoch, der magische Nanga Parbat. Seine mächtige Rupalwand, die mehr als vier Kilometer in die Tiefe fällt, hat Reinhold Messner als Erster durchstiegen. Doch bis heute ruft sie die Erinnerungen an das Jahr 1970 wach, an die dramatischen Geschehnisse, die den Extrembergsteiger nicht loslassen, denn damals musste er fassungslos und ohnmächtig den schrecklichen Tod seines Bruders durch eine Lawine mit ansehen. Drei Jahrzehnte später erinnert er sich – an den Brude...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-09-30 13,99 €

AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'As the title suggests, Waypoints is a rewarding mix of markers, both personal as he reflects on his life and geographical as he leads the reader along the West Highland Way' - The Scotsman 'A deeply personal and warmly entertaining memoir that fans of Sam - and Scotland - will have a joyful time devouring' - Heat 'From both his walk and his career, the common lesson is the power of persistence.' - The Times 'A pleasure for fans of the author...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2022-10-25 Género:Deportes y vida al aire libre 11,99 €

Vivències esfereïdores, apassionants i increïbles de les poques persones que s'han atrevit a enfrentar-se a l'hivern himalaià. L'espectacular operació de rescat d'Élisabeth Revol al Nanga Parbat (8.125 m), el mes de gener de 2018, va posar al descobert una disciplina poc coneguda: l'himalaisme hivernal. Qui són els muntanyencs que es dediquen a aquesta especialitat? Què els motiva a afrontar aquelles condicions inhumanes? Quina és la història d'aquesta pràctica extrema de muntanya? Es...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-02-24 7,49 €

The 1953 American expedition to the second highest peak in the world.

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2020-10-01 18,99 €

Aquesta és una col·lecció d'assajos que tenen com a tema principal els esports de risc i els perills de la natura en estat salvatge. Des d'un terrible allau a l'Everest que va provocar diversos morts fins a un volcà latent que pot destruir mig Seattle; des d'un programa per rehabilitar adolescents enmig de la natura liderat per uns suposats sàdics fins als últims dies del llegendari surfista Mark Foo... Al llarg de les diferents històries, l'autor investiga els motius econòmics, socials ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2020-09-02 9,99 €

George Leigh Mallory és un dels alpinistes anglesos més mítics, conegut sobretot per la seva expedició del 1924 a l'Everest que li va costar la vida i pel gran enigma que segurament no podrem resoldre mai: ell i el seu company Irvine podrien haver estat els primers homes en ascendir al cim més alt de la Terra, molt abans que ho fes Sir Edmund Hillary el 1953. Així mateix, la troballa del seu cos, 75 anys després, a 8.157 metres d'altitud, completava la fascinació per aquest gran escalado...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2020-03-18 11,99 €

Sie kletterten zusammen im Himalaja und Karakorum, im Yosemite-Nationalpark und in den Dolomiten, in Patagonien und der Antarktis – die sympathischen Brüder Alexander Huber und Thomas Huber, auch als »Huberbuam« weltbekannt, gehören mit ihren extremen Routen seit mehr als 25 Jahren zu den Protagonisten der vertikalen Revolution. Doch was die wenigsten wissen: Schon als Kinder waren sie nicht nur Komplizen am Berg, sondern ebenso Rivalen. Feinsinnig lotet der Band aus, wie nahe sie sich ein...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-10-13 13,99 €

If you are planning a climb up Kilimanjaro, then you are in for a real treat. However, being the World's tallest free standing mountain brings its own challenges for which you MUST be prepared. If you take this trip lightly, then you will fail, get injured or even die. At 19,320ft, she will challenge you every step of the way but that effort will be worth it provided you do it safely and that mens getting prepared. This book 'Climbing Kilimanjaro' will give you a simple background of the beautif...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-05-24 2,99 €

A climbing medicine and wilderness first aid guidebook from a team of proven experts Climbing and mountaineering attracts millions of people around the world each year, but produces a unique set of challenges. The threat of danger is ever present, and professional medical help is often far away. Vertical Medicine Resources is a renowned climbing company providing medical training and consultation. In Vertical Aid, they have produced the most complete guide available for managing both emergencies...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-04-18 9,99 €

Highly entertaining, idea-packed, and loaded with practical techniques and strategies, Training for Climbing presents a distillation of thirty years of experience and experimentation by accomplished veteran climber, renowned author, and performance coach Eric J. Horst. This is an illustrated, how-to guide, and the only one climbers will need.

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-07-15 26,99 €

Nie tylko Polacy zmienili wysokogórską wspinaczkę w narodowy sport. Nie tylko oni z ucieczki na najwyższe szczyty Ziemi uczynili sposób na życie. Choć Słoweńcy przegapili klasyczną erę himalajskich podbojów i pierwsze wejścia na ośmiotysięczniki, nadrobili straty na monumentalnych ścianach i granicach. Ich osiągnięcia przeszły na zawsze do historii podboju Himalajów. W swojej kolejnej książce Bernadette McDonald, autorka brawurowej „Ucieczki na szczyt”, przygląda się ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-01-20 7,99 €

The handful of Everest expeditions prior to 1971 had all been nationalistic affairs, with the Nepalese government granting climbing permits through the chief national mountaineering organization of various countries.  As per its name, the 1971 International Himalayan Expedition (IHE) was unambiguously multi-national, conceived at least in part to demonstrate that nationalistic rivalries could be amicably transcended by the cooperation required in the climbing of Everest. This conception was...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-08-17 5,99 €

Over the past 100 years, climbers have been pushing standards in the Canadian Rockies. From long alpine ridges to steep north faces, the Rockies are synonymous with cutting-edge ascents. Peaks such as Robson, Chephren, Kitchener, the Twins and Alberta elude the many and reward the few. Many of the big faces were climbed between the 1960s and 1990, the golden age of alpinism in the Rockies. The men and women who first were part of that set high standards. Future alpinists read old journals and gu...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-03-18 18,99 €

A breathtaking and lavishly illustrated autobiography in essays on Anatoli Boukreev, the late world-famous mountaineer and author of The Climb. When Anatoli Boukreev died on the slopes of Annapurna on Christmas day, 1997, the world lost one of the greatest adventurers of our time. In Above the Clouds , both the man and his incredible climbs on Mt. McKinley, K2, Makalu, Manaslu, and Everest-including his diary entries on the infamous 1996 disaster, written shortly after his return-are immortalize...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-09-08 10,99 €

1865-2015 A 150 ANNI DALLA CONQUISTA DEL CERVINO REINHOLD MESSNER FA RIVIVERE LE EMOZIONI DI UN’IMPRESA STRAORDINARIA. Il 14 luglio 1865 il venticinquenne inglese Edward Whymper, partito da Zermatt, raggiunge per primo la vetta del Cervino-Matterhorn, il «più nobile scoglio» come scriveva il poeta John Ruskin, o la «Gran Becca» come è ancora chiamata nelle valli italiane ai piedi della montagna. Scendendo, tuttavia, in seguito a un incidente la corda che teneva legati i sette scalatori s...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-07-09 10,99 €

This mountain’s revered place in Hindu mythology stems not only from its status as India’s highest peak,  but from the fact that although her 26,643-foot pointed summit can be seen from the distant plains, it is enclosed within a nearly unbroken rampart of imposing mountain ridges. Within this rampart is what is known as the Nanda Devi Sanctuary, a flowering meadow at around 14,000 feet, from which the icy rampart of Nanda Devi soars another two miles.  This journal describes an ex...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-03-30 5,49 €

This is the story of AAME, the American Antarctic Mountaineering Expedition— conceived specifically to attempt the first ascent of the last of the Earth’s seven continental summits to be climbed— the Vinson Massif (later known as Mount Vinson). This peak, at just over 16,000 feet, was climbed in December, 1966 by the entire 10-man AAME team. The Vinson ascent was followed two weeks later by the first ascent of Antarctica’s second highest peak, the considerably more technical Mount Tyree....

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-03-30 5,49 €