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Mountaineering Books Under £10 AUTHOR TITLE PUBLISHER EDITION CONDITION DESCRIPTION REFNo PRICE AA Publishing Focus On The Peak District AA Publishing 1997 First Edition 96pp, paperback, VG Includes walk and cycle rides. 49344 £3 Abell Ed My Father's Keep. A Journey Of Ed Abell 2013 First Edition 106pp, paperback, Fine copy The book is a story of hope for 67412 £9 Forgiveness Through The Himalaya. healing of our most complicated family relationships through understanding, compassion, and forgiveness, peace for ourselves despite our inability to save our loved ones from the ravages of addiction, and strength for the arduous yet enriching journey. Abraham Guide To Keswick & The Vale Of G.P. Abraham Ltd 20 page booklet 5890 £8 George D. Derwentwater Abraham Modern Mountaineering Methuen & Co 1948 3rd Edition 198pp, large bump to head of spine, Classic text from the rock climbing 5759 £6 George D. Revised slight slant to spine, Good in Good+ pioneer, covering the Alps, North dw. Wales and The Lake District. Abt Julius Allgau Landshaft Und Menschen Bergverlag Rudolf 1938 First Edition 143pp, inscription, text in German, VG- 10397 £4 Rother in G chipped dw. Aflalo F.G. Behind The Ranges. Parentheses Of Martin Secker 1911 First Edition 284pp, 14 illusts, original green cloth, Aflalo's wide variety of travel 10382 £8 Travel. boards are slightly soiled and marked, experiences. worn spot on spine, G+. Ahluwalia Major Higher Than Everest. Memoirs of a Vikas Publishing 1973 First Edition 188pp, Fair in Fair dw. Autobiography of one of the world's 5743 £9 H.P.S. Mountaineer House most famous mountaineers. -
Irish Successes on K2 Patagonia First Ascent
Autumn 2018 €3.95 UK£3.40 ISSN 0790 8008 Issue 127 Irish successes on K2 Two summit ten years after first Irish ascent Patagonia first ascent All-female team climbs Avellano Tower www.mountaineering.ie Photo: Chris Hill (Tourism Ireland) Chris Hill (Tourism Photo: 2 Irish Mountain Log Autumn 2018 A word from the edItor ISSUE 127 The Irish Mountain Log is the membership magazine of Mountaineering Ireland. The organisation promotes the interests of hillwalkers and climbers in Ireland. Mountaineering Ireland Welcome Mountaineering Ireland Ltd is a company limited by guarantee and elcome! Autumn is here registered in Dublin, No 199053. Registered office: Irish Sport HQ, with a bang. There is a National Sports Campus, nip in the air and the Blanchardstown, Dublin 15, Ireland. leaves on the trees are Tel: (+353 1) 625 1115 assuming that wonderful In the Greater ranges and in the Fax: (+353 1) 625 1116 [email protected] golden-brownW hue. Alps, the effects of climate ❝ www.mountaineering.ie This has been an exciting year so far for change are very evident. Irish mountaineers climbing in the Greater Hot Rock Climbing Wall Ranges (see our report, page 20). In Nepal, In the Greater Ranges and in the Alps, the Tollymore Mountain Centre there were two more Irish ascents of Bryansford, Newcastle effects of climate change are very evident. County Down, BT33 0PT Everest, bringing the total to fifty-nine Climate change is no longer a theoretical Tel: (+44 28) 4372 5354 since the first ascent, twenty-five years possibility, it is happening. As mountaineers, [email protected] ago, by Dawson Stelfox in 1993. -
Catalogue 48: June 2013
Top of the World Books Catalogue 48: June 2013 Mountaineering Fiction. The story of the struggles of a Swiss guide in the French Alps. Neate X134. Pete Schoening Collection – Part 1 Habeler, Peter. The Lonely Victory: Mount Everest ‘78. 1979 Simon & We are most pleased to offer a number of items from the collection of American Schuster, NY, 1st, 8vo, pp.224, 23 color & 50 bw photos, map, white/blue mountaineer Pete Schoening (1927-2004). Pete is best remembered in boards; bookplate Ex Libris Pete Schoening & his name in pencil, dj w/ edge mountaineering circles for performing ‘The Belay’ during the dramatic descent wear, vg-, cloth vg+. #9709, $25.- of K2 by the Third American Karakoram Expedition in 1953. Pete’s heroics The first oxygenless ascent of Everest in 1978 with Messner. This is the US saved six men. However, Pete had many other mountain adventures, before and edition of ‘Everest: Impossible Victory’. Neate H01, SB H01, Yak H06. after K2, including: numerous climbs with Fred Beckey (1948-49), Mount Herrligkoffer, Karl. Nanga Parbat: The Killer Mountain. 1954 Knopf, NY, Saugstad (1st ascent, 1951), Mount Augusta (1st ascent) and King Peak (2nd & 1st, 8vo, pp.xx, 263, viii, 56 bw photos, 6 maps, appendices, blue cloth; book- 3rd ascents, 1952), Gasherburm I/Hidden Peak (1st ascent, 1958), McKinley plate Ex Libris Pete Schoening, dj spine faded, edge wear, vg, cloth bookplate, (1960), Mount Vinson (1st ascent, 1966), Pamirs (1974), Aconcagua (1995), vg. #9744, $35.- Kilimanjaro (1995), Everest (1996), not to mention countless climbs in the Summarizes the early attempts on Nanga Parbat from Mummery in 1895 and Pacific Northwest. -
Bagini Glacier Trek Changabang Base Camp
BAGINI GLACIER TREK CHANGABANG BASE CAMP 7 OCTOBER - 14 OCTOBER 2017 OVERVIEW Imagine hiking in a Himalayan field with the grandiose views of Himalayan peaks like Kalanka, Changabang, Hardeol, Rishi, Trishuli, Hathi, Satminal, Garur and Dunagiri, feeling the oneness with the Himalaya while musing about the lines "Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere! " Bagini Glacier trek passes through some of the most majestic himalayan highlands winding through few of the most intriguing Garhwali villages. The Trek takes you to the base of Changabang - The Shining Mountain, also the title of the book by Peter Boardman considered one of the best Mountain Literature Classics. The book is based on Boardman's and Joe Tasker's successful summit of Changabang difficult west wall in 1976 Standing at an elevation of 6,864m, Changabang was first climbed on the 4th June 1974 , in an Expedition led by Lt. Col Balwant Sandhu and Chris Bonington Himalayan Peaks Visible Kalanka (6,931m) Changabang (6,864m) Hardeol (7,151m) Rishi ( 6,992m) 7 OCT - 14 OCT 2017 Tirsuli (7,074m) Hathi (6,727m) Satminal (6,911m) Dunagiri (7,066m) ITINERARY 7 OCT - 14 OCT 2017 Day1: Haridwar to Joshimath (In Taxi) Day2: Joshimath to Jumma (in Taxi) Walk to Ruing Village (2800m) [3kms Walk] Day3: Ruing to Dronagiri village (3610m) [8kms Walk] Day4: Dronagiri to Lower/Advanced Bagini base camp (4200m) [11 kms Walk ] Day5: Bagini base camp to Bagini Glacier/ChangabangBC back to Bagini Base camp (4500m) [11 kms walk] Day6: Bagini base camp to Dronagiri [8kms walk] Day7: Dronagiri to Jumma [3 kms Walk], Jumma to Joshimath (Taxi) Day 8: Joshimath to Haridwar Overview Key Attractions Region : Uttarakhand Joshimath Duration: 8 Days Dronagiri Difficulty: Moderate Ruing, Jumma Max Altitude: 4500m Bagini Base Camp Approx Trekking Km Changabang in 6 days: 43 Kms Bagini Glacier HOW TO GET THERE? 7 OCT - 14 OCT 2017 We arrange transport for you to get from Haridwar to Joshimath and back. -
Book Reviews 1983
237 Book Reviews 1983 Compiled by Geoffrey Templeman Everest: The Unclimbed Ridge Chris Bonington & Charles Clarke Hodder & Sloughton, 1983, pp 132, photos & maps, £10.95 There is a great samenessabout expedition books but this one, as one knew from the outset, was going to be special: the return ofa British party after forty years and more to the scenes of our endeavours in the twenties and thirties and to a greatly changed Tibet, the story ofan attempt substantially without oxygen on this enormously big and certainly difficult NE ridge, the drama and tragedy of the disappearance and loss of those uniquely experienced and skilful climbers Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker. It is indeed a rewarding and compelling story graphically and movingly told with an alternation ofdescriptive passages by the two authors interlarded with excerpts from Boardman's diaries and some of Tasker's letters and, need one say, magnificently illustrated. I particularly commend, because I am not yet fully habituated to it, the present convention of describing and analysing some at least of the emotional tensions, the fears, the antipathies, the fluctuations offriendship which in my time were glossed over or ignored. This way the characters ofthe protagonists stand out much more clearly though sadly Joe Tasker, partly because he seemingly kept no diary, remains rather enigmatic. Charles Clarke in one ofhis introductory chapters gives a sympathetic account of Tibet and its people as the expedition saw them, with breathtaking photo graphs of interiors in the Potala, but it seems a pity to quote yet again that unrepresentative comment of Mallory's on Tibet as 'a hateful place'. -
Cairngorm Club Library List Oct2020 Edited Kjt30oct2020
Cairngorm Club Library Holding Re-Catalogued at Kings College Special Collections October 2020 To find current Library reference data, availability, etc., search title, author, etc. in the University Catalogue: see www.abdn.ac.uk/library Type / Creator / Imprint title Johnson, Samuel, (London : Strahan & Cadell, 1775.) A journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Taylor, George, (London : the authors, 1776) Taylor and Skinner's survey and maps of the roads of North Britain or Scotland. Boswell, James, (London : Dilly, 1785.) The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL. D. / . Grant, Anne MacVicar, (Edinburgh : Grant, 1803) Poems on various subjects. Bristed, John. (London : Wallis, 1803.) A predestrian tour through part of the Highlands of Scotland, in 1801. Campbell, Alexander, (London : Vernor & Hood, 1804) The Grampians desolate : a poem. Grant, Anne MacVicar, (London : Longman, 1806.) Letters from the mountains; being the real correspondence of a lady between the years 1773 and Keith, George Skene, (Aberdeen : Brown, 1811.) A general view of the agriculture of Aberdeenshire. Robson, George Fennell. (London : The author, 1814) Scenery of the Grampian Mountains; illustrated by forty etchings in the soft ground. Hogg, James, (Edinburgh : Blackwood & Murray, 1819.) The Queen's wake : a legendary poem. Sketches of the character, manners, and present state of the Highlanders of Scotland : with details Stewart, David, (Edinburgh : Constable, 1822.) of the military service of the Highland regiments. The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland, containing descriptions of their scenery and antiquities, with an account of the political history and ancient manners, and of the origin, Macculloch, John, (London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, language, agriculture, economy, music, present condition of the people, &c. -
Joe Tasker Obituary
Joe Tasker 1948-82 by Dick Renshaw Joe was born in Hull in 1948 and five years later moved to Teeside where his father worked as a school caretaker until his retirement. Joe was one of ten children in a very close-knit family from which a strong sense of consideration and thoughtfulness for others seemed to develop. Several members of his family were usually at the airport when Joe left on expedition or returned. Just before leaving on his last expedition to Everest Pete wondered whether Joe, noted for turning up at the last minute, would be on time to meet the press. ‘He will be,’ said someone else. ‘Joe might keep the press of the world waiting but never his family.’ As the eldest of a strong Catholic family, Joe was sent to Ushaw College, a Jesuit seminary, at the age of thirteen. His seven years there were to have a lasting effect on him in many ways. It was there that he started climbing when he was fifteen, in a quarry behind the college, with the encouragement of Father Barker, one of the priests, and in a well-stocked library his imagination was fired by epic adventures in the mountains. He was always grateful for the excellent education he had received and his amazing will power and stoicism may perhaps have been partly due to the somewhat spartan way of life and to the Jesuit ideals of spiritual development through self-denial. He started his training as a priest but at twenty he realised that he did not have the vocation and decided to leave – the hardest decision of his life. -
Australian Mountaineering in the Great Ranges of Asia, 1922–1990
19 Turkeys on ice Jon Muir is one of those people who can truly be described as unforgettable. Red-haired and freckle-faced, he possesses a zany sense of humour, an inexhaustible amount of energy and an unbounded zest for life that never fail to impress people on meeting him. Sorrel Wilby, in her book Beyond the Icefall, described Muir as ‘by far the most interesting guy on the [Australian Bicentennial Everest Expedition] team; irreverent, crazy, uninhibited, good humoured and so intense his eyes were permanently popping out of their freckled sockets’.1 Muir’s Australian Bicentennial Everest Expedition (ABEE) colleague Jim Truscott, in recounting a satirical book review of a mythical volume on the expedition, included a chapter entitled ‘Am I normal— the Ozymandias story (Readers—judge this catalogue of Jon Muir’s weirdness for yourselves)’.2 It is his wild sense of humour, however, that is probably the most prominent trait in Muir’s character. Wilby recalls being kept awake one night during the walk in to the ABEE base camp by ‘Jon’s manic laughter, ringing out from the adjoining room’,3 and, at another point when he led the response to his own joke, ‘even his freckles started shaking with laughter’.4 She concluded, even before the ABEE team had arrived in Kathmandu, that Muir was ‘ready for a strait-jacket—not a climbing harness’.5 1 Wilby, S. 1989, Beyond the Icefall, Childs & Associates, Sydney, ch. 2. 2 Truscott, J. 1989, ‘Satirical book review’, AAA Newsletter, no. 3/89, p. 9. 3 Wilby, Beyond the Icefall, ch. -
Cat 42 Final.P65
Top of the World Books Catalogue 42: November 2010 Mountaineering Bates, Robert H. The Love of Mountains is Best: Climbs and Travels from K2 to Kathmandu. 1994 Randall, Portsmouth, 1st, 8vo, pp.xv, 493, photo Alpinist #32 Autumn 2010. #25559, $9.99 frontis, 8 color & 144 bw photos, 12 maps, 5 sketches, photo eps, dec blue Sarmineto, Foraker, Karakoram, and much more! cloth; inscribed by Bates, dj fine, cloth fine. #9492, $89.- Alexander, Eric. The Summit: Faith Beyond Everest’s Death Zone. 2010 Bob Bates has provided us with a terrific book covering his entire career, from US, 1st, 8vo, pp.223, 72 color & 15 bw photos, drawing, appendix, wraps; the first ascent of Mt. Lucania with Bradford Washburn, to K2 in 1938 and 1953 signed, new. #25611, $14.99 with Charles Houston, to Ulugh Muztagh. This book is a must read, with maps Alexander presents a powerful story of guiding people with disabilities to six of and sketches by Dee Molenaar. the Seven Summits. Here are his accounts of Ama Dablam (2000 with Erik —. Mountain Man: The Story of Belmore Browne - Hunter, Explorer, Weihenmayer), Everest (2001 with Erik Weihenmayer), Elbrus & Mt Cook Artist, Naturalist and Preserver of our Northern Wilderness. 1991 Amwell (2002), Pisco (2003), Kilimanjaro (2004, 2007), Aconcagua & Denali (2005), Press, Clinton, 2nd, 4to, pp.xvii, 424, 33 color illus, 98 bw photos, sketches, 4 and Vinson (2006). Intertwined throughout is Eric’s strong faith in God and life maps, appendix, gilt dec brown cloth, slipcase; slipcase fine, cloth new. lessons gained with his expeditions. #23623, $59.- Ardito, Stefano, ed. -
British Everest Expedition SW Face 1975 Peter Boardman and Ronnie Richards
British Everest expedition SW face 1975 Peter Boardman and Ronnie Richards It was a strange sensation to be lying prostrate with heat at nearly 6700 m, rain apparently floating down through the sultry glaring mist outside. Few people had been in the Cwm by the beginning of September and the old hands ruefully remembered November conditions in 1972, hence the gleeful graffiti on the boudoir walls of our lone Camp 2 superbox, exhorting: 'Climb Everest in September, be at home by October'. Express trains rumbled and roared incessantly from Lhotse above, the W Ridge left and uptse below; all movement on the mountain was out of the question, so we could indulge in continuous brews and lethargic inactivity. One's mind drifted back over the previous few days, traversing terrain made familiar, even legendary in the last 20 years. Base Camp, established on 22 August in its field of rubble, and a familiarisation with successive sections of the Ice-Fall on the following days, as the route through to a site for Camp 1 was prospected and made safe for subsequent traffic. Ice-Fall Sirdar Phurkipa, chief road mender and survivor of countless journeys up the Ice Fall, had shown his approval, white tooth flashing enthusiastically at the unusually benign conditions of the Ice-Fall this time of year. Tottering horrors apparently absent, the main areas of concern were the 'Egg-Shell', a short, flattish area surrounded by huge holes and crevasses, seemingly liable to sudden collapse, and a short distance above, 'Death Valley', hot and a possible channel for big avalanches peeling off the flank of the W Ridge. -
The Modernisation of Elite British Mountaineering
The Modernisation of Elite British Mountaineering: Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation and the Career Climber, 1953-2000 Thomas P. Barcham Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of De Montfort University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Submission date: March 2018 Contents Abstract ................................................................................................................................................... 4 Acknowledgments ................................................................................................................................... 5 Table of Abbreviations and Acronyms .................................................................................................... 6 Table of Figures ....................................................................................................................................... 7 Chapter 1. Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 8 Literature Review ............................................................................................................................ 14 Definitions, Methodology and Structure ........................................................................................ 29 Chapter 2. 1953 to 1969 - Breaking a New Trail: The Early Search for Earnings in a Fast Changing Pursuit .................................................................................................................................................. -
Dissertation
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by OTHES Dissertation Titel der Dissertation The Presentation of the Character of the Climber and Climbing Philosophy in North American and British Texts Verfasserin Lidiya Wukowits angestrebter akademischer Grad Doktor der Philosophie (Dr. phi.) Wien, 2009 Studienkennzahl lt. Studienblatt: A 092 343 Dissertationsgebiet lt. Studienblatt: 343 Anglistik und Amerikanistik Betreuer: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz i Contents Part I Overview Introduction 1 General Aspects 3 Mountains in Literature 10 History of Mountaineering 28 Mountaineering Fiction 38 • The Reasons for Climbing and Writing About It 41 The Presentation of Character. An Outline 43 • Climbing Philosophy 48 • Spiritual Corruption 49 • The Meaning of Climbing 49 Part II The Presentation of the Character of the Climber in Classic Mountaineering Literature Upon That Mountain. Eric Shipton • The Book 51 • The Landscape of Climbing. The Sublime 52 • The Presentation of Character. Climbing Philosophy 53 High Adventure. Edmund Hillary • The Book 58 • The Landscape of Climbing. The Sublime 58 • The Presentation of Character. Climbing Philosophy 60 The Ascent of Rum Doodle. W.E. Bowman • The Novel 62 • The Landscape of Climbing. The Sublime 63 • The Presentation of Character. Climbing Philosophy 64 Part III The Presentation of the Character of the Climber in Modern Climbing Literature Solo Faces. James Salter The Novel 69 The Plot 71 The Landscape of Climbing 73 • The Sublime 77 The Presentation of Character 79 • The Protagonist 80 • Other Climbing Characters 89 • Susceptibility to Superstitions 92 ii Climbing philosophy 94 • Spiritual corruption 96 The Meaning of Climbing 101 The Ascent.