Mountain of Truth
Author : Martin Green
Publisher : Tufts University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 29,5 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN :
Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters
Author : James M. Tabor
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 2008-06-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0393066851
Book Description
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award Grand Prize Winner, Banff Mountain Book Festival "Forever on the Mountain grips even non-climbers with its harrowing scenes of thorny relationships tested by extraordinary circumstances." —Washington Post In 1967, seven young men, members of a twelve-man expedition led by twenty-four-year-old Joe Wilcox, were stranded at 20,000 feet on Alaska’s Mount McKinley in a vicious Arctic storm. Ten days passed while the storm raged, yet no rescue was mounted. All seven perished in what remains the most tragic expedition in American climbing history. Revisiting the event in the tradition of Norman Maclean’s Young Men and Fire, James M. Tabor uncovers elements of controversy, finger-pointing, and cover-up that make this disaster unlike any other.
The Honest Truth
Author : Dan Gemeinhart
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,54 MB
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1910002143
Book Description
Mark has been in and out of hospital his whole life - and he's fed up. So when his cancer returns, he decides he's had enough. Running away with his dog Beau, he sets out to climb a mountain - and it's only when he's left everything behind that Mark realises he has everything to live for.
Hard Truth
Author : Nevada Barr
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 18,85 MB
Release : 2006-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101133872
Book Description
Just days after marrying Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon moves to Colorado to assume her new post as district ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park. When two of three children who'd gone missing from a religious retreat reappear, Anna's investigation brings her face-to-face with a paranoid sect--and with a villain so evil, he'll make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end.
My Side of the Mountain
Author : Jean Craighead George
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 11,19 MB
Release : 2001-05-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0593115007
Book Description
"Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest."—The New York Times Book Review Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods—all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever. “An extraordinary book . . . It will be read year after year.” —The Horn Book
Give Me this Mountain
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 32,67 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN : 9789811454929
Book Description
Imaginary Peaks
Author : Katie Ives
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 22,59 MB
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1594859817
Book Description
Author is a renowned writer in international climbing community Fascinating story of hoax that inspired a quest for a North American Shangri-La Vivid recounting of fabled mountains from across the world Using an infamous deception about a fake mountain range in British Columbia as her jumping-off point, Katie Ives, the well-known editor of Alpinist, explores the lure of blank spaces on the map and the value of the imagination. In Imaginary Peaks she details the cartographical mystery of the Riesenstein Hoax within the larger context of climbing history and the seemingly endless quest for newly discovered peaks and claims of first ascents. Imaginary Peaks is an evocative, thought-provoking tale, immersed in the literature of exploration, study of maps, and basic human desire.
The Seven Storey Mountain
Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Christian Large Print
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802724977
Book Description
One man's search to find his role in the world is revealed in the writer's portrait of his youthful political activism and entry into a Trappist monastery
The Truth about Cat People
Author : Jo Renfro
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 10,93 MB
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781680883411
Book Description
This sweet and funny illustrated gift book uncovers the hairy truth about people who really, really love cats�despite the fur on their clothes, their furniture, and everywhere else. Jo Renfro uses her sense of humor coupled with her adorable illustrations to celebrate cat people and their feline companions who never fail to make them laugh. This book is the perfect gift for cat lovers for Christmas, birthday, or any occasion.
To the Greatest Heights
Author : Vanessa O'Brien
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 152940312X
Book Description
'What a wonderful, honest, refreshing book, full of free-spirited adventure, humour and profound thoughts to provide inspiration to anyone who simply dreams of getting out and doing their own thing' SIR CHRIS BONINGTON 'Ernest Shackleton listed those qualities an explorer should possess over a century ago: optimism, patience, idealism with imagination, and courage. Vanessa's qualities are truly akin to these' ALEXANDRA SHACKLETON When Vanessa O'Brien was made redundant in 2008 as part of the recession, she moved to Hong Kong with her husband for his career and resigned herself to being 'just the wife'. There she was, aged 46, bored, uninspired, unemployed. Was this going to be how she was going to live the rest of her life? One night in the infamous Kee Club, over shots of tequila, a friend suggested O'Brien climb Everest, and that was the start of an epic journey she never looked back from as she climbed Everest, K2 and many other mountains. This is her inspirational story. As O'Brien says, she couldn't explain to her readers how she got to the top of K2 at the age of 52 without being honest about what came before. In To the Greatest Heights, she reveals the trials and tribulations of her difficult childhood, and the result is a life-affirming book that shows how she achieved these climbs in spite of and because of her past. To read To the Greatest Heights is to know that there is a path to overcoming the worst of what happens to us, a path that helps us reach the summit of our lives too, whatever our age.
