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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.

Releasedatum: 2012-12-12 € 4,99

In het adembenemende boek In de ban van de Barkley vertelt Michiel Panhuysen over De Barkley, een ultramarathon die zo extreem is dat zelden iemand de finish bereikt. Voor de lezers van Jon Krakauer. In de ban van de Barkley van Michiel Panhuysen vertelt over ‘De Barkley’, een begrip in de wereld van de ultralopers. Mythisch, extreem en in nevelen gehuld. De wedstrijd – die plaatsvindt diep in het Frozen Head State Park in de Amerikaanse staat Tennessee – is een van de slopendste ultra...

Releasedatum: 2021-05-07 Genre:Sport en buitenleven € 12,99

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...

Releasedatum: 2016-01-04 Genre:Sport en buitenleven € 0,99

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...

Releasedatum: 2012-07-12 € 5,99

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 ...

Releasedatum: 2000-04-25 € 6,99

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...

Releasedatum: 2013-05-20 € 2,49

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...

Releasedatum: 2022-10-25 Genre:Sport en buitenleven € 11,99

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...

Releasedatum: 2017-02-23 Genre:Sport en buitenleven € 4,49

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...

Releasedatum: 2018-10-02 € 9,49

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...

Releasedatum: 1999-04-20 € 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...

Releasedatum: 2009-03-01 Genre:Sport en buitenleven € 5,49

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...

Releasedatum: 2010-02-23 € 9,49

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 ...

Releasedatum: 2021-09-02 Genre:Sport en buitenleven € 21,99

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...

Releasedatum: 2013-12-03 € 3,49

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...

Releasedatum: 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...

Releasedatum: 2013-07-25 € 3,49

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...

Releasedatum: 2013-03-17 € 3,49

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 ...

Releasedatum: 2013-04-11 Genre:Sport en buitenleven € 3,99

Hoogtekoorts is een cultuurgeschiedenis van de bergsport. Macfarlane laat zien door welke ideeën mensen bergen zijn gaan beschouwen als symbolen van verhevenheid en zuiverheid, anders dan de gevaarlijke en angstaanjagende oorden vol goden en geesten waar ze drie eeuwen eerder nog voor werden gehouden. Ook laat hij zien dat het beeld dat sommige klimmers van bergen hebben een obsessie kan worden die hen de dood in jaagt. Macfarlanes eersteling is, net als zijn andere werk, een boek over de relat...

Releasedatum: 2021-11-11 € 11,99

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...

Releasedatum: 2015-09-08 € 10,99

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...

Releasedatum: 2014-01-23 € 10,99

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...

Releasedatum: 2013-10-08 € 15,99

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...

Releasedatum: 2018-07-20 € 3,49

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...

Releasedatum: 2017-05-24 € 2,99

Een laaglander wordt bergbeklimmer 50 jaar levenservaring gebald in een meeslepend verhaal over liefde en passie voor bergen én voor mensen. Een kwajongen wil acteur worden, of boswachter, maar stoot op het 'geen sprake van' van zijn ouders. Bij toeval komt hij in contact met de bergsport. Het bergvirus sluipt langzaam in zijn hoofd en in zijn hart. Wanneer hij dreigt vast te lopen in een uitzichtloze werksituatie, maakt hij een keuze die een onomkeerbare wending aan zijn leven geeft. In Op weg...

Releasedatum: 2015-03-21 € 11,99

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...

Releasedatum: 2008-02-05 € 8,99

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...

Releasedatum: 2013-03-17 € 3,49

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...

Releasedatum: 2013-03-17 € 3,49

The first book in the World Adventurers Series, Kilimanjaro: One Man's Quest to Go Over the Hill chronicles the author's attempt to summit Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. At forty years old and on the verge of a midlife crisis, he tried to change his life by climbing a mountain. This is his true story of facing Kilimanjaro and other challenges at middle age. This book is for anyone who feels over the hill and needs encouragement to make a life change in the face of difficult o...

Releasedatum: 2012-03-31 € 3,99

This comprehensive book is an excellent planning resource for those who wish to venture into the Scottish mountains. Whether you are planning a walk, scramble, climb or ski tour this larger format guide has all the information the independent mountain lover needs. The guide covers all the mountainous areas of Scotland from south to north, divided into seven regions. Each regional chapter covers individual glens important for mountain-goers, groups of hills that form coherent massifs and individu...

Releasedatum: 2011-03-30 Genre:Sport en buitenleven € 29,99

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...

Releasedatum: 2008-11-02 € 9,49

***NPR Books We Love selection*** “If you’re only going to read one Everest book this decade, make it The Third Pole. . . . A riveting adventure.”— Outside Shivering, exhausted, gasping for oxygen, beyond doubt . . . A hundred-year mystery lured veteran climber Mark Synnott into an unlikely expedition up Mount Everest during the spring 2019 season that came to be known as “the Year Everest Broke.” What he found was a gripping human story of impassioned characters from around the...

Releasedatum: 2021-04-13 € 5,99

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!

Releasedatum: 2019-08-01 € 21,99

Advanced Rock Climbing, written by AMGA Certified Rock Instructor Bob Gaines, covers concepts and topics that pertain to today’s rock climbers looking to take their skills and experience to the next level.

Releasedatum: 2018-05-01 € 24,99

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, ...

Releasedatum: 2014-11-12 € 29,99

Freeriden - das ist metertiefer Pulverschnee, Abenteuer und Adrenalin! Das vorliegende Buch beschreibt reich bebildert und ausführlich die unterschiedlichen Fahrtechniken, die notwendige Ausrüstung, das Risikomanagement und die Verschüttetensuche mit den aktuellen Geräten. Selbstverständlich dient es auch als Nachschlagewerk für alle technischen und inhaltlichen Fragen rund um das Thema Freeride und Variantenfahren.

Releasedatum: 2013-10-30 € 14,99

Jenseits der 4000-Meter-Marke Grenzen verschieben, Neues entdecken - ob Sie eine alpine Hochtour oder eine Expedition zu einem 8000er planen: Mit diesem Buch geht Ihnen nie die Luft aus! Höhenmediziner Klaus Mees hat alle relevanten Aspekte für Unternehmungen in großen Höhen verständlich und anschaulich zusammengestellt, von der Höhenanpassung über die Behandlung häufiger Erkrankungen bis hin zur Wahl des richtigen Kochers. Die perfekte Vorbereitungslektüre für alle, die hoch hinaus wo...

Releasedatum: 2010-11-15 € 14,99

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...

Releasedatum: 2012-11-09 Genre:Sport en buitenleven € 6,99

A resource book covering the finest walks, treks and climbs in the High Pyrenees for 400km between France and Spain, from the Cirque de Lescun, on the edge of the Basque country in the west, to the Carlit massif and the Cerdagne to the east of Andorra. The book is divided into five regional chapters: the Western Valleys; Cirques and Canyons; the Central Pyrenees; Enchanted Mountains; and Andorra and the Eastern High Pyrenees. Intended as a resource book for those planning a range of mountain act...

Releasedatum: 2010-09-09 Genre:Sport en buitenleven € 25,99

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...

Releasedatum: 2022-05-01 € 19,99

"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...

Releasedatum: 2020-07-01 € 9,99

„Mindig most van a legjobb pillanat” Kilian Jornet egész élete arról szól, hogy az emberi teljesítőképesség határait feszegeti. Rengeteg sérülést szenvedett, hatalmas veszélyeknek tette ki magát, és olyan rekordokat ért el, amelyekkel az egész világot ámulatba ejtette. Látszólag könnyedén vitte véghez mindazt, ami addig mindenki más számára lehetetlennek tűnt. De mindez nem a véletlen műve: már gyermekkorától kezdve edzette magát fizikálisan és mentálisan...

Releasedatum: 2021-04-01 € 6,49

In recent years, there has been a huge influx of interest in climbing. Climbing gyms are popping up all over the place and new climbers are taking to the outdoors, but there aren’t enough old timers to pass on all of the necessary knowledge that comes with taking on such a sport. There is more to climbing than just going up a rock. Once you join the sport, you become part of a community, a family, and there are certain unwritten rules that should be adhered to. You wouldn’t want to give your...

Releasedatum: 2020-03-12 € 8,99

"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...

Releasedatum: 2020-08-25 € 18,99

A 8611 méteres K2, a világ második legmagasabb hegycsúcsa 2008-ban tizenegy halálos áldozatot követelt. A hegyen rekedtek közül azonban két serpa csodával határos módon megmenekült. Az amerikai szerzőpáros sodró lendületű és izgalmas könyve - fotók és térképek segítségével - e tragikus napok történetét eleveníti fel elsősorban a serpák és a pakisztáni teherhordók szemszögéből. Miközben megismerkedünk életmódjukkal és kultúrájukkal, azt is megtudjuk,...

Releasedatum: 2019-10-02 € 6,49

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain” Jack Kerouac —- “We’re not professional climbers or world class athletes. This is not a disaster story. None of our team perished in the thin air. But as with every season on Everest, climbers from other teams succumbed to the harsh conditions. Friends made on the hill were hospitalised. Legends like Ueli Steck remain in the Khumbu forever.” Follow...

Releasedatum: 2018-05-23 € 10,99

In April 2012 Mark Horrell travelled to Tibet hoping to become, if not the first person to climb Mount Everest, at least the first Karl Pilkington lookalike to do so. He joined a mountaineering expedition which included an Australian sexagenarian, two Brits whose idea of hydration meant a box of red wine, and a New Zealander who enjoyed reminding his teammates of the perils of altitude sickness and the number of ways they might die on summit day. The media often write about Mount Everest deaths ...

Releasedatum: 2018-04-29 € 3,99

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...

Releasedatum: 2018-02-27 € 7,99

Essential reading for all outdoor enthusiasts who venture into mountainous terrain where avalanches are common. In spite of the increasing sophistication of avalanche hazard forecasting, an alarming number of people die every year in backcountry avalanche accidents. This updated edition of Backcountry Avalanche Safety contains the latest information on avalanche risk and focuses on the following vital topics: • Mountain Weather • Snow and Snowpack • Types of Avalanches • Avalanche Terrai...

Releasedatum: 2017-11-07 € 8,99

This guidebook describes 35 circular walking routes in the Dark Peak - the wilder northern area of the Peak District distinguished by its dark gritstone. The walks range between 4 and 13.5 miles in length (6.5km to 22km), varying in terms of difficulty: some involve steep ascents and descents, uneven ground and pathless terrain, and demand a good level of navigational competence. The book also outlines 5 longer routes (3 linear; 2 circular) of 15.5 to 28 miles (25-45km) for those wishing to expl...

Releasedatum: 2021-08-27 Genre:Sport en buitenleven € 14,99