Mystery on Everest - A Photobiography of George Mallory by Audrey Salkeld
$12.00 NZD
Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: very good
A dashing, determined adventurer, Mallory tried to climb Mount Everest three times, dying on his final attempt. His daring exploits--and the mystery of whether he reached the summit before he died--will hold young readers' interest from cover to cover.
Everest - Mountain without Mercy by Broughton Coburn
$35.00 NZD
Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: very good
Less than half a century ago, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first humans to stand atop Mount Everest and gaze outward from the highest point on our planet. Since their historic ascent, scores of other climbing expeditions have attempted these forbidding heights and many have succeeded ...Show more
Frank Smythe - The Six Alpine/Himalayan Climbing Books by Frank Smythe
$30.00 NZD
Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: very good
Everest - Expedition to the Ultimate by Reinhold Messner
$14.00 NZD
Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: good-very good
'Everest by fair means - that is the human dimension, and that is what interests me ... In reaching for the oxygen cylinder, a climber degrades Everest ... a climber who doesn't rely on his own strength and skills, but on apparatus and drugs, deceives himself. In May 1978 Reinhold Messner and Peter Habe ...Show more
Mountain Midsummer - Climbing in Four Continents by Michael Gill
$25.00 NZD
Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: very good
An Enthusiastic Layman's Ascent of Mt Everest by John Gluckman
$14.00 NZD
Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: new
The Death Zone - Clibing Everest through the killer storm by Matt Dickinson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: very good
It seemed like any other season on Mount Everest. Ten expeditions from around the world were preparing for their summit push, gathered together to try for mountaineering's ultimate prize. Twenty-four hours later, eight of those climbers were dead, victims of the most devastating storm ever to hit Everes ...Show more
Annapurna South Face - The Classic Account of Survival by Chris Bonington; Clint Willis (Introduction by)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Mountaineering | Series: Adrenaline Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
In 1970, Chris Bonington and his now-legendary team of mountaineers were the first climbers to tackle a big wall at extreme altitude. Their target was the south face of Nepal's Annapurna: 12,000 feet of steep rock and ice leading to a 26, 454-ft. summit. As serious armchair climbers will tell you, Annap ...Show more
Climbing Days by Dan Richards
$16.00 NZD
Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: very good
In Climbing Days, Dan Richards is on the trail of his great-great-aunt, Dorothy Pilley, a prominent and pioneering mountaineer of the early twentieth century. For years, Dorothy and her husband, I. A. Richards, remained a mystery to Dan, but the chance discovery of her 1935 memoir leads him on a journey ...Show more
Alpine Sports - 55 Years of an Auckland Mountain Club 1929-1984 by Stan Forbes; Ian McNab
$45.00 NZD
Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: very good
A Land Apart - The Mount Cook Alpine region by George Harris; Graeme Hasler
$35.00 NZD
Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: good-very good