The Third Pole - My Everest climb to find the truth about Mallory and Irvine by Mark Synnott

$20.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: near fine

Veteran climber Mark Synnott never planned on climbing Mount Everest, but a hundred-year mystery lured him into an expedition–and an awesome history of passionate adventure, chilling tragedy, and human aspiration unfolded. On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and “Sandy” Irvine set out to stand on the roof of the world, where no one had stood before. They were last seen eight hundred feet shy of Everest’s summit. A century later, we still don’t know whether they achieved their goal, decades before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay did, in 1953. Irvine carried a Kodak camera with him to record their attempt, but it, along with his body, had never been found. Did Mallory and Irvine reach the summit and take a photograph before they fell to their deaths? Mark Synnott made his own ascent up the infamous North Face along with a filmmaker using drone technology higher than any had previously flown. His goal: to find Irvine’s body and the camera he carried that might have held a summit photo on its still-viable film. Synnott’s quest led him from oxygen-deprivation training to archives and museums in England, to Kathmandu, the Tibetan High Plateau, and up the North Face into a storm during a season described as the one that broke Everest. An awful traffic jam of climbers at the very summit resulted in tragic deaths. Sherpas revolted. Chinese government agents turned adversarial. An Indian woman crawled her way to safety and survival. Synnott himself went off the safety rope–if he had slipped, no one would have been able to save him–desperate to solve the mystery. A magnificent story à la The Lost City of Z, The Third Pole conveys the miracle of a mountain the world wants to own, and the first explorers who may have done so. ...Show more

Seven Summits by Dick Bass; Frank Wells; Rick Ridgeway

$14.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: good-very good

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 Thousand Mountains Shining - Stories from New Zealand's Mountain World by Ray Knox (ed.)

$20.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: very good

The Spirit of the Mountains - Alpine Adventures and Reflections by Ron Hay

$35.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: near fine

A Land Apart - The Mount Cook Alpine region by George Harris; Graeme Hasler

$35.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: good-very good

The Mountains of Erewhon by T N Beckett

$45.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: very good

Beyond the Southern Lakes - The explorations of W. G. Grave by Anita Crozier (ed.)

$35.00 NZD

Category: Travel | 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

Life Is Meeting by John Hunt

$10.00 NZD

Category: Mountaineering | Reading Level: good