Learning to Breathe by Andy Cave

$14.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: very good

Chomolungma - New Zealanders on the North Face of Everest by Graeme Dingle; MIke Perry

$25.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: very good

Total Alpinism by René Desmaison

$25.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: very good

The Last Step - The American Ascent of K2 by Rick Ridgeway; Edward M. Kennedy (Foreword by); James W. Whittaker (Introduction by)

$20.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: good

In September 1978, Rick Ridgeway, Jim Wickwire, Lou Reichardt and John Roskelley stood atop K2, the first Americans ever to achieve this victory. Under the leadership of Jim Whittaker, they and their teammates had spent 67 days on the mountain, nearly all of them above 18,000 feet, where the stresses of high-altitude living, of monotonous food, of confinement in tiny tents for day after day of frustrating storms had worn them down to the core. The Last Step is Rick Ridgeway's inside story of this extraordinary expedition. It's about the people who, battered by the mountain and their isolation, overcame their individual fears, desire, and disappointments to work together to get somebody anybody to the top of K2. It's about the glorious success the team achieved, and about the perilous bivouac Jim Wickwire spent just below the summit without food, oxygen or shelter in temperatures of -40F. ...Show more

Kongur China's Elusive Summit by Chris Bonington

$30.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: very good

First Across the Roof of the World The First Ever Traverse of the Hamalayas 5000 Kilometres from Sikkim to Pakistan by Graeme Dingle & Peter Hillary

$30.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: very good

Harry Ayres - Mountain Guide by Michael Mahoney

$20.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: very good

The Best of "Outside": The Picador Book of Adventure by Mariah Media Inc

$10.00 NZD

Category: Travel | Reading Level: good

Jon Krakauer experiences a deadly week on Everest; Ian Frazier journeys along the flooded Mississippi; Sebastian Junger reports on the perfect storm; Jane Smiley recalls an adolescent adventure in fox-hunting; Annie Proulx rides out in search for fun; Thomas McGuane explains his reasons for hunting; Jam es Salter skis around the world. For more than twenty years the editors of award-winning 'Outside' magazine have been bringing together the best in adventure travel, sports, nature writing and photography. Now they have selected over thirty essays that together comprise some of the finest non-fiction gathered anywhere, essays that take us around the world from the slums of Haiti to the jungles of Peru, from the peaks of the Himalayas to the beaches of Belize, into the heart of the wilderness and into some strange human hearts as well. Paperback ...Show more

Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks - My life in the Death Zone by Nirmal Purja

$15.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: near fine

My comfort zone begins where most individuals quit. As a kid in Nepal, I went barefoot because my family had nothing. That's how I developed the resilience I needed for joining the Gurkhas - one of the most fearless forces in the British Army. Then against all odds, I became the first ever Gurkha soldie r in more than 200 years of history to join the Special Boat Service where I served in the some of the world's most dangerous warzones, kicking down doors to capture enemy gunmen and terrorist bomb makers. But elite combat wasn't enough. I wanted more of a test. That's where my next project came in, something nobody thought possible - to climb all fourteen "death zone" mountains in seven months. Fear became irrelevant because I had belief. In the death zone, I came alive. Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks - My Life In The Death Zone is the inside story of my incredible adventure.   ...Show more

High Adventure by Sir Edmund Hillary

$12.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: very good

Reprinted on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the conquering of Everest, this is the authoritative first-person account of Hillary and Tenzing's conquest. "High Adventure" is regarded as a mountaineering classic, but it is also a thrilling and inspiring story of courage and endurance. First pub lished 1955. ...Show more

Life Is Meeting by John Hunt

$10.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: good

K2, Triumph and Tragedy by Jim Curran

$15.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: good

K2, "The Savage Mountain", is the second highest in the world--and the most difficult. In 1986 it was the scene of both triumphant achievement and the greatest tragedy in the history of mountaineering.