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Starlight and Storm
Author | : Gaston Rébuffat |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Alps |
ISBN | : UOM:39015001676157 |
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Training for the Uphill Athlete
Author | : Steve House,Scott Johnston,Kilian Jornet |
Publsiher | : Patagonia |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2019-03-12 |
Genre | : SPORTS & RECREATION |
ISBN | : 1938340841 |
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Presents training principles for the multisport mountain athlete who regularly participates in a mix of distance running, ski mountaineering, and other endurance sports that require optimum fitness and customized strength
Solo Faces
Author | : James Salter |
Publsiher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2012-06-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781453243824 |
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A novel about a lonely mountain climber from the author of All That Is: “Beautifully composed . . . will remind readers of Camus and Saint-Exupéry” (The Washington Post). Vernon Rand is a charismatic figure whose great love—whose life, in fact—is climbing. He lives alone in California, where he combats the drudgery of a roofing job with the thrill of climbing in the nearby mountain ranges. Sure of only his talent and nerve, Rand decides to test himself in the French Alps, with their true mountaineering and famed, fearsome peaks. He soon learns that the most perilous moments are, for him, the moments when he feels truly alive. One of the great novels of the outdoors, Solo Faces is as thrilling, beautiful, and immediate as the Alpine peaks that have enthralled climbers for centuries. This ebook features an illustrated biography of James Salter including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
The White Spider
Author | : Heinrich Harrer |
Publsiher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2010-06-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780007347575 |
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A classic of mountaineering literature, this is the story of the harrowing first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the most legendary and terrifying climb in history.
Starlight and Storm
Author | : Gaston Rebuffat |
Publsiher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 1999-09-07 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780375755064 |
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“One of the great climbers of all time . . . who has discovered through the medium of mountains the true perspective of living.” —Sir John Hunt, author of The Conquest of Everest Known for his lyrical writing and his ability to convey not only the dangers of mountaineering but the pure exaltation of the climb, Gaston Rébuffat is among the most well-known and revered Alpinists of all time. He rose to international prominence in 1950 as one of the four principal stalwarts in the first ascent of Annapurna, the highest mountain climbed at that time. Yet his finest feat as a mountaineer was to be the first man to climb all six of the legendary great north faces of the Alps—the Grandes Jorasses, the Piz Badile, the Dru, the Matterhorn, the Cima Grande di Lava-redo, and the Eiger. With this elegant book, first published in 1954, Gaston Rébuffat transformed mountain writing. His insistence on seeing a climb as an act of harmonious communion with the mountain, not a battle waged against it, seemed radical at the time, though Rébuffat’s aesthetic has since won the day. Through storms, avalanches, rock fall, unplanned bivouacs, and even the deaths of companions, we follow the Chamonix guide to the altar of his communion, on dark, icy walls that struck terror into the hearts of Europe’s finest mountaineers. Nor are these deft narratives mere recitations of dangers faced and obstacles overcome, for Rébuffat pays as keen attention to the joys of comradeship won on these faces as he does to the climbs themselves. In our own day of corporate sponsorships, online expeditions, and eco-vacations, the purity of Rébuffat’s vision of the Alps as (in the epithet of the title of another of his books) an “enchanted garden” shines forth in prose as fresh and stylish as any ever lavished on mountaineering.
Book of the Alps
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Author | : Spiegel Stefan,Weber Tobias,Köcher Björn |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2021-08 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 3946719325 |
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The Alps
Author | : Ronald Clark |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2011-10-28 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781448206223 |
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The unrivalled scenery of the Alps attracts increasing numbers of visitors every year, while for those who seek the more active and dangerous pursuits of climbing and skiing, the region offers unique opportunities. Ronald Clark, a distinguished historian of mountaineering, who knows the Alps from end to end, describes the history of the mountains and their most famous peaks. The heroic story of their exploration, first by scientists, then by such early mountaineers as Whymper, Coolidge, Miss Brevoort and their guides, is related with extensive quotations from letters, diaries and contemporary records. With the mountaineers came the pioneer photographers whose cumbersome but fragile equipment had to be manhandled up ice-slopes and across glaciers to enable them to take their photographs, a procedure which necessitated hours of intricate manoeuvring, in freezing weather, to obtain one successful shot. Other chapters discuss the development of the Alps as a mountain health centre, the coming of roads and railways and the growth of the winter sports industry and Mr Clark warns that the mountains, like a Highland deer forest, can carry only a certain number of living creatures without facing disaster.
The High Mountains of the Alps
Author | : Helmut Dumler,Willi P. Burkhardt |
Publsiher | : Mountaineers Books |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105019359160 |
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A comprehensive portrait -- in text and glorious color photos -- of the topography and climbing history of the highest peaks in the Alps. Includes technical advice for popular routes.