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By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Bartholomew: 1992
Seller ID: 2280309
ISBN: 0702821349
Condition: Near Fine
Near fine condition. 1992 Soft Cover. Folded map. This publication covers the Roof of the World on a single large sheet at the scale of 1:3,000,000. Printed in eight colours, it allows subtle depiction of relief and landscape variety in this one of the most remote and sparsely populated mountain regions of the world. It is a detailed map for general reference, student research, and for those with an interest in mountaineering or travel to exotic destinations. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: National Geographic Society: 1988
Seller ID: 2280315
Condition: Very Good
Light stain along edges. 1988 Soft Cover. Folded map. Two-sided map. Close-up of mountain and perspective within local area of Himalayan mountain range. View more info
By: Aldrich, Mildred
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: 1918
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2266164
Condition: Very Good
No jacket, endpapers faintly toned, pencil name on second blank. 1918 Hard Cover. 187 pp. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs. Mildred Aldrich (November 16, 1853[1] – February 19, 1928) was an American journalist and writer. Aldrich moved to Huiry, near Paris, in 1914, only months before the outbreak of the First World War.[2] Her house there overlooked the Marne river valley, and her experiences during the First Battle of the Marne, as detailed in her letters to friends in the U.S., constitute her first book, A Hilltop on the Marne (1915). View more info
By: Breashears, David; Krakauer, Jon
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2269164
ISBN: 0684853612
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Jacket very faintly toned. 1999 Hard Cover. 319 pp. Foreword by John Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air. An IMAX cinematographer and mountaineer describes his participation in an expedition to Everest during the deadly 1996 season, detailing the creation of his IMAX film Everest and the dramatic impact on his life of his experiences in the face of disaster. View more info
By: Child, Greg
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Villard: 2002
Seller ID: 2197958
Condition: Very Good
Includes original jacket. Bright copy.Very Good. 2002 Hard Cover. xiii, 284 pp. Before dawn on August 12, 2000, four of America's best young rock climbers, the oldest of them only twenty-five, were sleeping in their portaledges high on the Yellow Wall, in the Pamir-Alai mountain range of Kyrgyzstan, in central Asia. By daybreak, they would be taken at gunpoint by fanatical militants of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), which operates out of secret bases in Tajikistan and Afghanistan, and which is linked to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network. The desperadoes—themselves barely out of t... View more info
By: Coburn, Broughton; Cahill, Tim; Breashears, David
Price: $15.00
Publisher: National Geographic Society: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2265856
ISBN: 0792270142
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. 1997 Large Hardcover. 256 pp. More than 125 full-color photographs, including spectacular IMAX images, and firsthand accounts by survivors chronicle the fateful 1996 expedition to climb Everest, a trek that ended up claiming eight lives. View more info
By: Cordes, Kelly
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Patagonia: 2014
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2267755
ISBN: 1938340337
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. 2014 Hard Cover. 399, [1] pp. 8vo. Patagonia’s Cerro Torre, considered by many the most beautiful peak in the world, draws the finest and most devoted technical alpinists to its climbing challenges. But controversy has swirled around this ice-capped peak since Cesare Maestri claimed first ascent in 1959. Since then a debate has raged, with world-class climbers attempting to retrace his route but finding only contradictions. This chronicle of hubris, heroism, controversies and epic journeys offers a glimpse into the human condition, and why some pursue extreme endeavors that at... View more info
By: Dickinson, Matt
Price: $10.00
Publisher: HarperCollins: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2265846
ISBN: 0060188065
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. No jacket. 2002 Large Hardcover. 31 pp. Readers can chart a route on an early map of Everest, hold a Tibetan prayer flag like the ones generations of mountaineers have left at Everest's summit, and examine a dossier (complete with survival tips) for commercial clients attempting to climb the mountain. The pre–war attempts, the dangerous conditions, the recent discovery of long–lost climber George Mallory's body are featured, along with the history of the mountain, its geography, and the myths and legends which surround it. View more info
Price: $9.00
Publisher: National Geographic: 2004
Seller ID: 2269158
ISBN: 0792265572
Condition: Near Fine
A very nice copy. 2004 Trade Paperback. xix, 299 pp. A portrait in observance of the first Everest ascent's fiftieth anniversary follows the life of Tibetan-born Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, from his life as an illiterate yak herder to his relationship with Sir Edmund Hillary and his accomplishments as a mountaineer. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Headline: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2267113
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Jacket spine slightly faded. 2000 Hard Cover. xiv, 306 pp. 8vo. A biography of the famous mountain climber, drawing on a wealth of new material. Biographies don't get any better than this. Supremely well researched and documented, erudite, and masterfully written, this book isn't so much about what happened to Mallory in 1924 when he and his climbing partner Irvine disappeared in the mists of Mt. Everest, but rather it seeks the answer to another, almost more fascinating question: who was this man Mallory? This is the book to read to find the answer. View more info
By: Golding, Harry
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited: 1930
Edition: Fourth Edition
Seller ID: 1898469
Condition: Very Good
Fourth edition, circa 1930. Very good copy in well worn jacket. Pencil name & address on front endpaper, gift note and ink stamp on front blank, board edges rubbed, jacket edges heavily worn with loss from corners, split down jacket spine - looks alright under mylar.Fair. 256 pp. Red cloth spine, pictorial paper over boards - color picture plate mounted on front board matches jacket art. Includes 8 color plates and over two hundred two-tone illustrations, many from photographs. A collection of adventure and exploration writing by various authors. Includes: the Antarctic adventures of Rear-Admi... View more info
By: Headley, J.T.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner: 1864
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2266163
Condition: Very Good
Civil War era reprint. Light stain along page-base, book plate on front paste-down endpaper. 1864 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 175 pp. A study of the sacred mountains of the Bible. CONTENTS: Mount Ararat; Mount Moriah; Mount Hor; Mount Pisgah; Mount Horeb; Mount Carmel; Mount Lebanon; Mount Zion; Mount Tabor; Mount of Olives; Mount Calvary; The Mount of God. View more info
By: Hemmleb, Jochen; Johnson, Larry A.; Simonson, Eric R.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2201168
ISBN: 0898866995
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Pages faintly toned. 1999 Large Hardcover. 205 pp. Unravels one of the most puzzling and compelling adventure mysteries of all time. On June 6, 1924, George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Comyn Irvine were only a few hundred feet short of becoming the first men to reach the highest spot on earth when they simply walked into the mist, never to be seen again. Did they reach the summit of Mount Everest - nearly three decades before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay? This is the meticulous report of both the 1924 British Expedition and the 1999 Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition which f... View more info
By: Hemmleb, Jochen; Johnson, Larry A.; Simonson, Eric R.
Price: $12.00
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2265853
ISBN: 0898866995
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Jacket lightly bumped. 1999 Large Hardcover. 205 pp. Unravels one of the most puzzling and compelling adventure mysteries of all time. On June 6, 1924, George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Comyn Irvine were only a few hundred feet short of becoming the first men to reach the highest spot on earth when they simply walked into the mist, never to be seen again. Did they reach the summit of Mount Everest - nearly three decades before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay? This is the meticulous report of both the 1924 British Expedition and the 1999 Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition which... View more info
By: Holzel, Tom; Salkeld, Audrey
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Jonathan Cape: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2266881
ISBN: 0224023624
Condition: Good
First edition. Spine base stained. 1986 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, [2], 322, [2] pp. 8vo. The compelling story of the greatest mystery in mountaineering, first published in 1996, has now been revised in the light of the discovery of Mallory's body on Everest. In 1924 Mallory and Irvine set off from camp, bound for the summit. But they were never seen alive again. Did they conquer the mountain? How did they die? View more info
By: Houston, Charles S.; Bates, Robert H.
Price: $22.00
Publisher: Lyons Press: 2000
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2125149
ISBN: 1585740519
Condition: Near Fine
First paperback printing. Remainder mark on page base. 2000 Trade Paperback. xv, 381 pp. The epic account of the 1938 American expedition to the summit of K2. CONTENTS: Introduction: Randy Wayne White; The Idea: Charles S. Houston, M.D.; Geographical and Historical: Richard L. Burdsall; Biscuits and Boots: Charles S. Houston, M.D.; Into Kashmir: Robert H. Bates; Over the Zoji La: Robert H. Bates; The Indus Trail: Robert H. Bates; To the Last Village: Robert H. Bates; K2 at Last: Robert H. Bates; Preliminary Reconnaissance: William P. House; Up the Godwin-Austen Glacier: William P. House; The A... View more info
By: Hunt, John
Price: $7.00
Publisher: The Mountaineers: 1993
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2265868
ISBN: 0898863619
Condition: Very Good
1993 reissue of 1953 original. Remainder mark, light stain to page-base. xvi, 280 pp. Hunt gives a detailed account of his 1953 ascent to the summit discussing planning and preparation, the motivations behind the attempt, and factors that contributed to the two mens' success. View more info
By: Izzard, Ralph
Price: $20.00
Publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1954
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2204133
Condition: Very Good
First edition. A very nice copy.Quarter inch chip to top edge of jacket spine and to top edge of jacket, a few minor chips to jacket edges. 1954 Hard Cover. 319 pp. For readers of the mountain-climbing fraternity- and circumstances have proved their number to be large- this will be classed as only secondarily a mountain climbing book, for Izzard, while compassing a difficult ascent reached what he calls the foot of Everest and then turned back to sit it out at Katmandu. But other readers who demand less of the mountain aspects and more of straight travelogue, will enjoy the greater part of the... View more info
By: Johnston, Tim
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 2015
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2269889
ISBN: 161620477X
Condition: Near Fine
Ink initials on blurb page. 2015 Trade Paperback. 387 pp. The Rocky Mountains have cast their spell over the Courtlands, who are taking a family vacation before their daughter leaves for college. But when Caitlin and her younger brother, Sean, go out for an early morning run and only Sean returns, the mountains become as terrifying as they are majestic. Written with a precision that captures every emotion, every moment of fear, as each member of the family searches for answers, Descent races like an avalanche toward its heart-pounding conclusion. View more info
By: Krakauer, Jon
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Villard: 1997
Edition: 7th Printing
Seller ID: 2277949
ISBN: 0679457526
Condition: Very Good
7th printing. Small sticker removal mark on front endpaper. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 293 pp. 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 jetliner), 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 o... View more info
By: Landon, Percival; Colonel Younghusband (Introduction)
Price: $95.00
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co.: 1905
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1996828
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Faint stain on top margin of small section of pages, rear endpapers faintly foxed. 1905 Hard Cover. xv, 484 pp. Tall 8vo. Original green cloth with blind-stamped swastika & single rule border on front panel, gilt spine titles & top page ridge. Tipped in color frontispiece, black & white photographic plates throughout. An account of British India's armed expedition to Tibet, designed to effect trade and establish diplomacy, during which British forces subjugated the Tibetans, though this led to few long-term benefits. View more info
By: Le Sueur, Alec
Price: $5.00
Publisher: RDR Books: 2003
Seller ID: 2260238
ISBN: 1571431012
Condition: Very Good
Pages faintly toned. 2003 Trade Paperback. On a par with the best of Bill Bryson and Pico Iyer, Alec Le Sueur's bestselling insider account of life at the world famous Holiday Inn, Lhasa, Tibet (altitude 14,000 feet) pits Communist owners against capitalist manager to create a chain hotel in Shangri-La. Against all odds, heroic Tibetan workers fight with Chinese bosses who turn off the heat in reezing weather when occupancy falls below 20 percent. They struggle against Maoist bureaucrats trying to break up the first Miss Tibet beauty pageant. And they delicately remove the American Express car... View more info
By: Livesay, Ann
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Silver River Books: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2269171
ISBN: 0966281721
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. A paperback original. Faint smudge to top page ridge. 2000 Trade Paperback. 296 pp. A madman, convinced that Buddhism is a heathen religion, sets out to destroy the sanctity of the religion and its most visited sites. Murders at a monastery at the foot of Mount Everest and at the largest Buddhist stupa in Indonesia scare tourists away from these inspiring sites. International investigator Barry Ross is on the case, following the murderer through the Himalayas. This fast-paced mystery allows an in-depth look at Indonesian arts, Nepalese customs, and Buddhism, with the morning mis... View more info
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Bantam Books: 1979
Seller ID: 2207949
Condition: Good
Spine creased, pages lightly toned. 1979 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 350 pp. One September, the writer and explorer Peter Matthiessen set out with field biologist George Schaller to journey 250 miles through the Himalayas to the Crystal Mountain on the Tibetan plateau. They wanted to study the wild blue sheep, the bharal, but also hoped to see the snow leopard, a creature so rarely spotted as to be nearly mythical. The Snow Leopard is not only an exquisite book of natural history but an extraordinary account of an inner journey ; a 'true pilgrimage, a j... View more info
By: Merrick, Henrietta Sands; Younghusband, Francis (Introduction)
Price: $30.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York / The Knickerbocker Press: 1931
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1803609
Condition: Very Good
First edition. No jacket. Minor edge wear, ink dates on front flyleaf. 1931 Hard Cover. xxii, 259 pp. 8vo. Original red cloth, gilt titles. An account of the author's travels in the Himalayan mountains in the early 20th century, when this part of the world was largely unknown to western adventurers. View more info
By: Ohmori, Koichiro; Wickwire, Jim
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Cloudcap: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2265845
ISBN: 0938567373
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. No jacket, pages faintly toned. 1994 Large Hardcover. 45 color photos, maps. The most thorough set of Himalayan aerial photos ever published. A custom-made wide-angle camera recorded views of the Nepal Himalaya. View more info
By: Ruttledge, Hugh
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton: 1947
Seller ID: 2266165
Condition: Very Good
Fifth black jacket edition. Half-inch open tear to jacket rear along spine, jacket edges rubbed, front jacket flap price-clipped. 1947 Small Hard Cover. xii, 254 pp. Includes black-and-white photographs. Hugh Ruttledge (24 October 1884 – 7 November 1961) was an English civil servant and mountaineer who was the leader of two expeditions to Mount Everest in 1933 and 1936. View more info
By: Slakey, Francis
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 2012
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2267549
ISBN: 1439198950
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. A very nice copy. 2012 Hard Cover. 252 pp. A journey to the most extreme points on Earth and deep inside the human spirit. Before Georgetown physics professor Francis Slakey set out to climb the highest mountain on every continent and surf every ocean, he had shut himself off from other people. His lectures were mechanical; his relationships were little more than ways to fill the evenings. But as his journey veered dangerously off course, everything about him began to change. A gripping adventure of the body and mind, To the Last Breath depicts the quest that leads Slakey around... View more info
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By: Tyndall, John
Price: $95.00
Publisher: New York: D. Appleton & Company: 1873
Seller ID: 2012618
Condition: Very Good
No jacket. Ink gift note on front flyleaf with poem by J.O. Roe, a prominent 19th century EENT doctor in Rochester, NY, dated Rochester, N.Y. Dec 25 1873, with another two-line poem on the next blank. Front free endpaper removed, small dealer bookplate on rear endpaper. viii, 473 pp. 8vo. 6-page terminal publisher ad. Engraved frontispiece. A firsthand account of adventures in the Alps, featuring sections on The Matterhorn and Mont Blanc, among others. A description of ice and glaciers, with an account of a voyage to Algeria to view an eclipse, is included also under a separate title page (p. ... View more info
By: Unsworth, Walt
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Grafton: 1991
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2265867
ISBN: 0586206264
Condition: Good
Second printing. Spine and front wrapper creased, pages lightly toned. 1991 Trade Paperback. xvi, 704 pp. This is the definitive history of Everest--the most romantic mountain in the world. It tells the story of the intrepid men and women who risked their lives to reach the ultimate summit. Their tales are the basis of the Everest legend: tales of tragedy and triumph, courage and fear. Here too are first-hand accounts of the early failures, the near unbelievable pettiness and incompetence of some parties, and the commendable altruism and skill of others. Illustrated with breathtaking photograp... View more info
