This inspirational guidebook is packed with suggestions for all sorts of mountain activities, from gentle family walks to an ascent of Mont Blanc and from graded cycling up to mountain passes to spectacular downhill MTB routes, to offer more than enough ideas for several multi-activity trips with family and friends to this stunning area of the ......
Guidebook to 40 graded walks and scrambles in the Anti-Atlas mountains of southern Morocco. Routes from 5 to 25km, including a summary of a 1 week long-distance trail from the north to the south of the Anti-Atlas. Covers 6 main areas, including Tafroute, Jebel El Kest, Ait Mansour, Ameln Valley, Taskra and Tanalt.
Guidebook to 41 graded scrambles in the Dark Peak and Roaches areas of the Peak District, most of which can be done year round. Includes areas such as Kinder Scout, the Wilderness Gullies and Bleaklow, and features both classic (Wilderness Gully East and Wildboar Clough) and lesser known routes. Link routes, variants and extensions also described.
This book is a wonderful collection of 75 autobiographical short stories from prolific outdoors writer Kev Reynolds, recording his treasured recollections of 50 years of mountain travel and adventure. These tales spread across the Moroccan Atlas, Pyrenees, European Alps, Himalaya and elsewhere leave you by turns amused, reflective and inspired.
To the impartial observer Britain does not appear to have any mountains. Yet the British invented the sport of mountain climbing and for two periods in history British climbers led the world in the pursuit of this beautiful and dangerous obsession. Unjustifiable Risk is the story of the social, economic and cultural conditions that gave rise to ......
In this text, Pat Ament, who climbed with Gill at Horse Tooth Reservoir and Flagstaff Mountain, provides an insight into John Gill, and his evolution into a climbing pioneer.
When Whymper set out from Zermatt for the summit of the Matterhorn on 14 July 1865 on his many attempts, he would both achieve success and failure. Of the seven of his team, only Whymper and two Swiss guides would return alive. Disaster struck on the way back down under circumstances still not fully explained.
Few thought of travelling to the Alps until John Ruskin extolled their rugged beauty in 1842. More than anyone, it was 25-year-old Edward Whymper who imbued them once again with a sense of alarming mystery after his Alpine memoir and first ascent of the Matterhorn.
Designed for quick use by climbers on site, this book shows how to properly place and configure natural anchors, passive chocks, mechanical chocks, fixed gear, knots, belay anchors, toprope anchors and rappel anchors. This field guide is up to date with the essential knowledge every climber can depend on.
This completely revised and updated edition with all new color photos brings together in a single volume the anchoring systems most popular among climbers. Most climbers today learn their craft on artificial climbing walls and on sport routes with fixed protection. Their first efforts to lead on trad routes often come as a rude shock--they find ......
A Lifelong Obsession with Yosemite's Most Iconic Climb
Hans Florine embodies the genius of "and"-collaborative and competitive, fast and safe, audacious and disciplined, visionary and quantitative. The themes that run through Florine's 101 ascents of Yosemite's most iconic route can benefit people who will never climb a rock, indeed anyone inspired by the idea of a passionate, lifelong quest of any ......
100 Classic Summit Routes to Washington's Cascade and Olympic Mountains
This select guide includes detailed, easy to follow directions to climbing 100 of Washington's most visible, historically significant, and interesting mountains with summits over 5,000 feet. From introductory level off-trail summit hikes and scrambles to multi-pitch alpine rock and high volcano climbs, this guide is suitable for beginning ......
An essential guidebook for anyone walking the Tour of Mont Blanc. The 170km circuit typically takes 11 days to walk around the Mont Blanc massif. The TMB is recognised as one of the world's classic trek. The book describes both anti-clockwise and clockwise directions, with variants and information about huts, refuges and facilities en route.
The High Pyrenees from the Cirque de Lescun to the Carlit Massif
An extensive introduction gives all the practical advice
and information needed for planning a trip. It offers a
background to the mountains and their exploration, and
provides a snapshot of the range with sections that help
the reader focus on specific areas of activity, and
suggests where best to exercise that activity. It also
lists all ......
Very informal biography of the legendary rock climber. Originally published as Spirit of the Age, in 1992. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
