Into Thin Air: Personal Account of the Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

$10.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: good

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10,1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus jet liner), twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly to the top, unaware that the sky had begun to roil with clouds... Into Thin Air is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed Outside journalist and author of the bestselling Into the Wild. Taking the reader step by step from Katmandu to the mountain's deadly pinnacle, Krakauer has his readers shaking on the edge of their seat. Beyond the terrors of this account, however, he also peers deeply into the myth of the world's tallest mountain. What is is about Everest that has compelled so many poeple--including himself--to throw caution to the wind, ignore the concerns of loved ones, and willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense? Written with emotional clarity and supported by his unimpeachable reporting, Krakauer's eyewitness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement. From the Paperback edition. ...Show more

The Adventures of a Mountaineer by Frank Smythe

$15.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: good

South Col: One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest 1953 by Wilfrid Noyce

$25.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: good

Journey along the Spine of the Andes by Christopher Portway

$25.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: very good

The Wainwright Letters by Alfred Wainwright; Hunter Davies (ed.)

$25.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: very good

Hunter Davies, Wainwright's biographer, has here collected a selection of letters that range from his early years in Blackburn to his position as Borough Treasurer in Kendal, and cover all aspects of his professional and personal life.

Everest by Walt Unsworth

$25.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: very good

Tenzing: Hero of Everest by Ed Douglas

$15.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: very good

A portrait of the Tibetan-born Sherpa Tenzing Norgay describes his life as an illiterate yak herder, his relationship with Sir Edmund Hillary, and his accomplishments as a mountaineer.

Tenzing and the Sherpas of Everest by Judy and Tashi Tenzing

$12.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: very good

This is the inspiring story of Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, the poor and illiterate man who left his small ancestral village in a remote part of the Himalaya and through grit, courage and sheer determination climbed the world's highest mountain and became a hero around the globe.

People in High Places. Mustangs, Everest and Other Approaches to Tibet by Audrey Salkeld

$14.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: very good

Nanda Devi - The Tragic Expedition by John Roskelley

$14.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Series: Mountaineers Bks. | Reading Level: very good

In 1976, John Roskelley joined an expedition to climb Nanda Devi, a 26,645-foot peak in India's remote northwest frontier. What unfolded during this climb was a story of strong emotion, conflicting ambitions, death and victory, desire and regret. This is the story of Willi Unsoeld, the expedition leader who supported the participation of his young daughter, who was named after the mountain they were climbing. ...Show more

The Beckoning Silence by Joe Simpson

$20.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: very good

Joe Simpson has experienced a life filled with adventure but marred by death. He has endured the painful attrition of climbing friends in accidents, calling into question the perilously exhilarating activity to which he has devoted his life. Probability is inexorably closing in. The tragic loss of a clo se friend forces a momentous decision upon him. It is time to turn his back on the mountains that he has loved. Never more alive than when most at risk, he has come to see a last climb on the hooded, mile-high North Face of the Eiger as the cathartic finale.In a narrative which takes the reader through extreme experiences, from an avalanche in Bolivia, ice-climbing in the Alps and Colorado and paragliding in Spain -before his final confrontation with the Eiger -Simpson reveals the inner truth of climbing, exploring both the power of the mind and the frailties of the body. The subject of his new book is the siren song of fear and his struggle to come to terms with it. ...Show more

Mountaineering in Scotland and Undiscovered Scotland by W. H. Murray

$20.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Series: Teach Yourself Ser. | Reading Level: very good