Mountaineering
epub |eng | 2019-07-24 | Author:David Rose

In these moods of depressed reflection Alison often compared herself to other, apparently more fulfilled, female mountaineers. One of them was Catherine Destivelle, the Frenchwoman she had climbed with years ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-02-22 | Author:James M. Tabor

TOUGH BILL BABCOCK and his team spend this Tuesday, before the storm hits, down on the Muldrow, ferrying eighty-five-pound loads from 8,600 feet to 10,000 feet, making the round-trip in ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-02-03 | Author:Nick Heil [Heil, Nick]

CHAPTER 5 THE NORTHEAST RIDGE By three-thirty on May 14, Bill Crouse was back at Himex’s Camp Four, hunched by a narrow blue cylinder, sucking in deep lungfuls of sweet ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 1995-02-19 | Author:Starkell, Don, 1932-

By Kayak from Cambridge Bay FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1992 (day i) Long Point on Victoria Island to the MacAlpine Islands off Trap Point of the Kent Peninsula - 9:00 a.m. ...
( Category: Sea Kayaking February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-17 | Author:Scott Ellsworth

Eric Shipton slipped back into London in the fall of 1938. The last Everest expedition, of course, had already been deemed a failure, simply because the summit had yet again ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-17 | Author:Chris Bonington [Chris Bonington and Robin Knox-Johnston]

– CHAPTER 6 – DECISION TIME We had been back for nearly twenty-four hours and had spent most of that time in our sleeping bags, but Jim and I had ...
( Category: Narratives February 18,2020 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2020-02-15 | Author:Oxford University Press

( Category: Architecture February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-09 | Author:Frank McLynn [McLynn, Frank]

CHAPTER NINE: THE BAY OF WHALES Continuation of the journal of Helmer Hannsen In the first minutes after anchoring Amundsen was in a state of what can only be called ...
( Category: Historical February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-25 | Author:Mark Horrell [Horrell, Mark]

35. Controversy on Nanga Parbat Wednesday 15 July, 2009 – Gasherbrum Base Camp, Pakistan More information is filtering through to us about the deaths on Nanga Parbat, though much of ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:Jake Jaramillo & Cathy Jaramillo

Terrific Puget Sound view from Montavista Place You won’t tempt fate too long before heading back up the gracefully decrepit Montavista stairs and away from the bluff. You’ll visit more ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-03 | Author:Fergus White [White, Fergus]

May 1 Trek from Base Camp down to Pheriche This is the end of the glacier living for a while. We came here, busted ourselves for a month, and climbed ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing February 16,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-05-26 | Author:Larry Semento

Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence--the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing February 14,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-04-30 | Author:Yvon Chouinard

… even the two best ski instructors in the world couldn’t get me down that mountain without a hundred crashes and head-plants. In the summer of 1984 I went off ...
( Category: Fishing February 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-04 | Author:Sharon Wood

CHAPTER 13 SMALL PLANS TWO DAYS LATER, THE WEATHER CLEARS and Albi and I head up for a lead shift and to spend our first night at Camp Four. On ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing February 5,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Maurice Isserman

They drove ahead, remembering General Hays’s injunction, “always forward,” while leaving a trail of dead and wounded comrades. Much the same thing happened around the base of Mount Belvedere in ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing January 21,2020 )