Livres les plus populaires en France●Alpinisme

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...

Date de sortie: 2022-10-25 Genre:Sports et plein air 11,99 €

Dans son deuxième ouvrage après Courir ou Mourir, Kilian Jornet livre dans La Frontière Invisible un poignant témoignage sur sa relation avec la montagne, celle pour qui il est né.  A 26 ans, le coureur-skieur catalan se prête à une intense introspection sur sa passion et sur ce qui le fait courir toujours plus haut, toujours plus vite. De sa rencontre traumatisante avec la mort, lors de la traversée du Mont Blanc d'Ouest en Est où il perdra l'un de ses compagnons les plus chers,&#...

Date de sortie: 2013-11-25 9,99 €

"Parce que nous sommes des hommes forgés par nos rêves. Parce que sans nos rêves, nous sommes morts." Après Courir ou Mourir, Kilian Jornet reprend la plume. Avec La Frontière invisible, celui que l’on surnomme "l’ultra-terrestre" livre une réflexion intime et poignante sur son amour des sommets, son besoin de solitude et son attirance pour les défis les plus insensés : records d’ascension du mont Blanc, du Cervin, etc. Grâce à un style très personnel où il mêle harmonieusemen...

Date de sortie: 2014-12-31 6,49 €

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.

Date de sortie: 2012-12-12 4,99 €

« L’apprentissage par le mouvement, Les mouvements enroulés, Volume 3 » est un ouvrage pédagogique et didactique interactif qui fait suite aux deux premiers volumes. Le premier volume posait le cadre d’analyse, le cadre didactique de cette méthode d’apprentissage de la lecture en escalade et du traçage d’itinéraire. Le second volume traitait de l’étude des mouvements conduits. Ce volume 3 traite des mouvements enroulés, deuxième familles de mouvements étudiée. Au ...

Date de sortie: 2016-07-27 7,99 €

Le 3 juin 1950, Maurice Herzog accomplit l’exploit historique d’atteindre un sommet de plus de 8 000 mètres. Gravée dans la conscience collective grâce à son livre au succès planétaire "Annapurna Premier 8000", cette victoire détermine son existence, guidée par une volonté et un courage exceptionnels. De ses souffrances – il revient amputé après avoir frôlé la mort –, il puise une force incroyable et va connaître un destin hors du commun. Cet ancien résistant assume d’é...

Date de sortie: 2011-10-26 14,99 €

28 août 2015. Chamonix. Je m’apprête à prendre le départ de l’UTMB®, une des plus grandes courses d’ultra endurance au monde. Mars 2003. Centre Aquitain du Dos en banlieue bordelaise. Je reprends doucement conscience après une deuxième intervention pour hernie discale en quatre ans. J’ai 33 ans et mon avenir sportif est des plus sombres. Douze ans séparent ces deux dates. Douze ans de vie menés vers le projet insensé et impensable de participer à une course de 170 kilomètres ...

Date de sortie: 2017-04-28 Genre:Sports et plein air 6,99 €

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...

Date de sortie: 2012-07-12 5,99 €

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...

Date de sortie: 2010-02-23 9,49 €

« Conscients de la manne financière que représente "leur" Everest pour l’économie nationale comme pour les opérateurs étrangers, ces "sherpas du nouveau millénaire" refusent désormais d’être traités en simples auxiliaires suiveurs qui risquent leur vie pour bien la gagner. » Le 18 avril 2014 sur le versant népalais de l’Everest, une avalanche tuait seize sherpas qui préparaient la voie pour leurs riches clients amateurs de sensations fortes. C’était la première fois depuis...

Date de sortie: 2019-01-09 Genre:Sports et plein air 6,49 €

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 ...

Date de sortie: 2000-04-25 6,99 €

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...

Date de sortie: 2009-03-01 Genre:Sports et plein air 5,49 €

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 ...

Date de sortie: 2021-09-02 Genre:Sports et plein air 13,99 €

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...

Date de sortie: 2018-10-02 9,49 €

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 ...

Date de sortie: 2013-04-11 Genre:Sports et plein air 3,99 €

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...

Date de sortie: 1999-04-20 10,99 €

In a startling look at the classic Annapurna —the most famous book about mountaineering—David Roberts discloses what really happened on the legendary expedition to the Himalayan peak. In June 1950, a team of mountaineers was the first to conquer an 8,000-meter peak. Maurice Herzog, the leader of the expedition, became a national hero in France, and Annapurna, his account of the historic ascent, has long been regarded as the ultimate tale of courage and cooperation under the harshest of condi...

Date de sortie: 2013-06-11 11,99 €

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...

Date de sortie: 2013-05-20 2,49 €

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award and the Banff Mountain Book Award for Mountain Literature "Gripping, intense…Buried in the Sky will satisfy anyone who loved [Into Thin Air]." —Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe When eleven climbers died on K2 in 2008, two Sherpas survived. Their astonishing tale became the stuff of mountaineering legend. This white-knuckle adventure follows the Sherpas from their remote villages in Nepal to the peak of the world’s most dangerous mountain, recounting one o...

Date de sortie: 2012-06-11 7,99 €

This is the adventure story of the year -- how Conrad Anker found the body of George Mallory on Mount Everest, casting an entirely new light on the mystery of the explorer who may have conquered Everest seventy-five years ago. On June 8, 1924, George Leigh Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine were last seen climbing toward the summit of Mount Everest. Clouds soon closed around them, and they vanished into history. Ever since, mountaineers have wondered whether they reached the summit twenty-nine ye...

Date de sortie: 1999-12-22 9,99 €

Le 29 mai 1953, pour la première fois dans l’histoire des hommes, l’alpiniste Edmund Hillary et le sherpa Tenzig Norgay atteignent le sommet de l’Everest. Cette victoire, les deux héros la partagent avec les membres de l’expédition britannique à laquelle ils sont associés. John Hunt, alpiniste chevronné et militaire anglais, dirigeait cette expédition victorieuse. Dans Victoire sur l’Everest, il relate avec brio et talent les préparatifs et les détails de l’ascension audacie...

Date de sortie: 2014-04-02 19,99 €

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...

Date de sortie: 2012-01-12 7,99 €

K2 is the world's second highest mountain, but its savage reputation is second to none. The loss of Alison Hargreaves and six companions in 1995 was a grim echo of the multiple deaths in 1986 and of earlier disasters which have become part of climbing legend. K2 has always attracted the greatest names in mountaineering. Wiessner, Houston, Bonatti, Diemberger and Bonington are among those whose lives have been permanently scarred by their experiences on it. At the same time some inspiring new rou...

Date de sortie: 2013-04-11 Genre:Sports et plein air 3,99 €

This richly illustrated adventure book tells the gripping story of two Canadian climbing expeditions that captured the attention of the mountaineering world in 1982 and 1986 — written by two climbers who reached Everest’s summit in distinctly different ways.  Combining a powerful yet intimately told story with 150 colour photos, maps, archival video and audio recordings, “Everest: High Expectations” sets a new standard for illustrated ebooks as it chronicles both Canadian expedition...

Date de sortie: 2012-11-09 Genre:Sports et plein air 8,49 €

An expert mountaineer cracks Everest’s most intriguing mystery - did Mallory and Irvine reach the summit before they perished on its slopes? On the 6th June 1924, mountaineers George Mallory and Sandy Irvine perished in their attempt to reach the summit of Everest. Obsessed by uncovering what happened, in 1993 Graham Hoyland became the 15th Englishman to climb Everest. His investigations led to the finding of Mallory’s body; it will be his evidence that will recover Irvine’s. ‘Last Hours...

Date de sortie: 2013-05-23 7,99 €

« Les meilleurs rêves, lorsqu’ils se réalisent, en engendrent de nouveaux que notre imagination n’osait pas approcher auparavant. » Kilian Jornet, légende de l’ultra-trail, « sky runner » à l’assaut des sommets et du ciel, a toujours considéré ses incroyables records comme autant d’étapes dans une quête personnelle d’accomplissement sportif et spirituel. Mont Blanc, Cervin, Elbrouz, Denali, Aconcagua, Everest…, ces sommets parmi les plus hauts du mon...

Date de sortie: 2021-10-06 6,49 €

"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...

Date de sortie: 2020-08-25 10,99 €

LONGLISTED IN THE ADVENTURE TRAVEL CATEGORY OF THE 2017 BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK AWARDS SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER BY THE AUTHOR OF WALKING THE HIMALAYAS , WINNER OF THE 2016 EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 'Levison Wood has breathed new life into adventure travel.' Michael Palin Walking the Americas chronicles Levison Wood's 1,800 mile trek along the spine of the Americas, through eight countries, from Mexico to Colombia, experiencing some of the world's most diverse, bea...

Date de sortie: 2017-02-23 Genre:Sports et plein air 4,49 €

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...

Date de sortie: 2016-01-04 Genre:Sports et plein air 0,99 €

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...

Date de sortie: 2015-03-12 13,99 €

In the heart of the Swiss Alps stand the three majestic peaks of the Bernese Oberland, Europe's most famous mountain range. The highest, at 13,638 feet, is the Jungfrau. Next is the Mönch, at 13,465 feet. But it is the smallest, the Eiger, rising 13,038 feet above sea level, that is by far the deadliest. Called a "living" mountain for its constantly changing conditions-unpredictable weather, disintegrating limestone surfaces, and continuously falling rock and ice-its mile-high north wall is per...

Date de sortie: 2015-01-25 7,49 €

High Crimes is journalist Michael Kodas's gripping account of life on top of the world--where man is every bit as deadly as Mother Nature. In the years following the publication of Into Thin Air , much has changed on Mount Everest. Among all the books documenting the glorious adventures in mountains around the world, none details how the recent infusion of wealthy climbers is drawing crime to the highest place on the planet. The change is caused both by a tremendous boom in traffic, and a new cl...

Date de sortie: 2008-02-05 8,99 €

In national bestseller The Mountain , world-renowned climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs and cowriter David Roberts paint a vivid portrait of obsession, dedication, and human achievement in a true love letter to the world’s highest peak. In The Mountain , veteran world-class climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs—the only American to have climbed all fourteen of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks—trains his sights on Mount Everest in richly detailed accounts of expeditions that are...

Date de sortie: 2013-10-08 13,99 €

"A fascinating tale…Readers who are into high-altitude adventure stories won’t be disappointed." —Associated Press In 1939 the Savage Mountain claimed its first victim. Born into vast wealth yet uneasy with a life of leisure, Dudley Wolfe, of Boston and Rockport, Maine, set out to become the first man to climb K2, the world’s second-highest mountain and, in the opinion of mountaineers, an even more formidable challenge than Mt. Everest. Although close to middle age and inexperienced at h...

Date de sortie: 2011-08-01 7,99 €

In 1937, Mount Lucania was the highest unclimbed peak in North America. Located deep within the Saint Elias mountain range, which straddles the border of Alaska and the Yukon, and surrounded by glacial peaks, Lucania was all but inaccessible. The leader of one failed expedition deemed it "impregnable." But in that year, a pair of daring young climbers would attempt a first ascent, not knowing that their quest would turn into a perilous struggle for survival. Escape from Lucania is their remarkab...

Date de sortie: 2010-05-11 12,99 €

Dans Ascendances Pascal Sancho nous propose d'embarquer aux côtés des équipages des bases et des détachements en montagne de la Sécurité civile et de la Gendarmerie nationale. Des femmes et des hommes qui ont, au fil des générations, acquis une technique d'intervention de très haut niveau. Ils sont considérés par le monde aéronautique comme l'élite des équipages d'appareils à voilure tournante ! Pour la première fois Pascal Sancho fait le récit de ces secours en hélicoptère - ...

Date de sortie: 2022-08-18 14,99 €

"This book will save your life" Pete Whittaker (Wide Boyz) Down is a groundbreaking encyclopedic study of the art of descent. Its purpose is to create a single source for all descent techniques, both the well established and ideal for the novice climber, as well as the cutting edge, high value techniques for experienced and pro climbers. The book was written and illustrated over three years by award winning climber and writer Andy Kirkpatrick (Psychovertical, Cold Wars, 1001 Climbing Tip...

Date de sortie: 2020-07-01 9,99 €

Équilibre, résistance, force et maîtrise de soi, l’escalade est un sport complet et envoûtant. Au plaisir de l’expression corporelle s’ajoutent celui du toucher sensuel des différents grains de la roche, et le privilège d’évoluer en pleine nature. Découvrez les différentes pratiques de l’escalade libre : le bloc, la falaise et la grande voie sportive. Au programme, les gestes et les manœuvres indispensables pour débuter, sans oublier l’acquisition du bagage technique pour ...

Date de sortie: 2021-07-28 9,99 €

Une expédition mixte en duo : Christine de Colombel et David Belden. Un sommet du Karakorum himalayen : le Masherbrum, près de 8 000 mètres. Densités et fragments d’une expérience éclatée. Pas d’oxygène, pas de porteurs, pas de cordes ou de camps fixes équipant la montagne. Seulement une cordée de deux, comme dans les Alpes. Pour la première fois, une femme participe à une entreprise de ce type. Peut-on encore parler d’expédition, lourde ou légère ? Qu’...

Date de sortie: 1981-01-01 6,99 €

K2 is almost 800ft shorter than Everest, yet it’s a far harder climb. Many great mountaineers became obsessed with reaching its summit, not all of them lived to tell of their adventures. Capturing the depth of their obsession, the heart-stopping tension of the climb and delving into the controversy that still surrounds the first ascent, Mick Conefrey delivers the definitive account of the ‘Savage Mountain’. From drug-addicted occultist Aleister Crowley to the brilliant but tortured expedit...

Date de sortie: 2016-05-05 8,99 €

The essential handbook for every beginner, Learning to Climb Indoors is the most complete book available on indoor climbing—now revised and in its third edition!

Date de sortie: 2019-08-01 21,99 €

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

Date de sortie: 1967-01-01 5,99 €

Un recueil de chroniques publiées pendant plus de vingt ans dans les principales revues d'alpinisme. Des hommes, des cimes et des mots… reprend les écrits de Jean-Marie Choffat publiés entre 1993 et 2015 dans les revues du Groupe de Haute Montagne, du Club Alpin Français et de la Fédération Française de la montagne. Portraits, critiques, chroniques, entretiens, récits… emmènent le lecteur sur tous les horizons alpins possibles et imaginables : du Piolet d’Or à l’Annapurna, de l...

Date de sortie: 2018-11-09 3,99 €

Two days east of Lukla was a pleasant yak pasture surrounded by high peaks. When Col. Jim Roberts set out to look for it in 1953, he ended up making the first ascent of Mera Peak and sowing the seeds of Himalayan tourism. Mera Peak has become a popular goal for trekkers and novice mountaineers, but few people climb to its true summit, and fewer still travel beyond it to find the secret yak pasture that sparked Roberts' journey. The yak pasture was the Hongu Valley, a hidden sanctuary of grasslan...

Date de sortie: 2018-07-20 3,49 €

Everest, Shisha Pangma, Annapurna, Cho Oyu, Broad Peak, K2, Manaslu, Lhotse, Makalu, Dhaulagiri: nomi che echeggiano nell’immaginario collettivo come luoghi remoti, quasi inaccessibili. Sono gli Ottomila, le montagne più alte del Pianeta. Marco Confortola ne ha già scalati dieci, e ognuno è stato una storia di fatica e soddisfazioni, rinunce e attimi di pace assoluta, sudore e amicizie ad alta quota con uomini straordinari, da Silvio ‘Gnaro’ Mondinelli a Denis Urubko a Krzysztof Wielick...

Date de sortie: 2018-05-18 18,99 €

This is the tale of Mark Horrell's not-so-nearly ascent of Gasherbrum in Pakistan, of how one man's boredom and frustration was conquered by a gutsy combination of exhaustion, cowardice, and sheer mountaineering incompetence. He made not one, not two, but three intrepid assaults, some of which got quite a distance beyond Base Camp, and overcame many perilous circumstances along the way. The mountaineer Joe Simpson famously crawled for three days with a broken leg, but did he ever have to read An...

Date de sortie: 2018-04-29 3,49 €

« Un viaggio sentimentale alieno da ogni suggestione celebrativa che grazie a una narrazione scorrevole e coinvolgente si distende con efficacia tra storie e paesaggi raccontando l'italia di ieri e quella di oggi » Bell'Italia - Carlo Migliavacca « In ogni sosta si interroga su come la memoria della guerra è vissuta e gestita dando ampio spazio a descrizioni di luoghi, storie individuali di eroismo nella disfatta, canzoni e inevitabilmente anche l'attualità reclama un suo spazio. » Il Sole...

Date de sortie: 2017-05-18 9,99 €

Au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la Yougoslavie connut une période de calme relatif sous la férule de Tito et permettra à l'alpinisme de haut niveau de s'y développer de manière spectaculaire. Grâce au soutien de l'État, les grimpeurs yougoslaves réalisèrent d'impressionnantes ascensions en Himalaya. Ces expéditions étaient largement dominées par les Slovènes, qui avaient pu s'entraîner sur les parois verticales des Alpes juliennes, qui constituent l'essentiel de leur pa...

Date de sortie: 2017-04-10 Genre:Sports et plein air 13,99 €

Mountaineering is not merely walking up hill. It is the art of getting safely up and down a peak where there is no path, and where steps may have to be cut in the ice; it is the art of selecting the best line of ascent under conditions which vary from day to day. Mountaineering as a science took long to perfect. It is more than a century since the first ascent of a big Alpine peak was accomplished, and the early climbers had but little idea of the dangers which they were likely to meet with. The...

Date de sortie: 2016-12-18 3,99 €

Why We Climb is a celebration, in word and image, of those aspects of the climbing life that are most universal, meaningful, and long lasting— the strong connection to partners and nature; the physical and mental mastery required (and how to achieve it); the rewards of exploring oneself and the world through climbing. Through interviews with some of North America’s most notable climbers the book undertakes a quest to find the soul of climbing— asking what compels men and women to dedicate ...

Date de sortie: 2017-01-01 21,99 €