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By: Aldrich, Mildred
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: 1918
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2266164
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 letter... View more info
By: Allison, Stacy; Carlin, Peter
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2269163
First edition. Light sticker ghosting on jacket rear. 1993 Hard Cover. 282 pp. The first American woman to reach the summit of Everest recounts her ascent, describing the grueling training she endured, the constant danger of the climb, close calls, and the pressing threat of death. Includes black-and-white photographs. View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Lyons & Burford: 1996
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2269170
First printing. A very nice copy. 1996 Trade Paperback. xviii, 342 pp. Describes the author's travel experiences in the Himalayan regions of Nepal, Tibet, and Bhutan, combining adventure, history, and geography of this area. View more info
By: Blanchard, Barry
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Patagonia: 2014
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2267756
First edition. 2014 Hard Cover. 439, [1] pp. 8vo. With heart-pounding descriptions of avalanches and treacherous ascents, Barry Blanchard chronicles his transformation from a poor Native American/white kid from the wrong side of the tracks to one of the most respected alpinists in the world. At thirteen, he learned to rappel when he joined the 1292 Lord Strathcone’s Horse Army Cadets. Soon kicked out for insubordination, he was already hooked on climbing and saw alpini... View more info
By: Boukreev, Anatoli; DeWalt, G. Weston
Price: $10.00
Publisher: St. Martin's Press: 1997
Edition: 3rd Printing
Seller ID: 2267753
3rd printing. 1997 Hard Cover. xi, [5], 255, [1] pp. 8vo. Includes color photographs. As the climbers of the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster vanished into thin air, one man had the courage to bring them down alive... On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by expert leaders attempted to scale the world's largest peak. But things went terribly wrong. Crowded conditions, bad judgement, and a bitter storm stopped many climbers in their tracks. Others were left for dead... View more info
By: Breashears, David; Krakauer, Jon
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2269164
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
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 Tajiki... View more info
By: Coburn, Broughton; Cahill, Tim; Breashears, David
Price: $15.00
Publisher: National Geographic Society: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2265856
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
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, hero... View more info
By: Dickinson, Matt
Price: $10.00
Publisher: HarperCollins: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2265846
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 t... View more info
Price: $9.00
Publisher: National Geographic: 2004
Seller ID: 2269158
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
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 m... View more info
By: Golding, Harry
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited: 1930
Edition: Fourth Edition
Seller ID: 1898469
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 photo... View more info
By: Headley, J.T.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner: 1864
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2266163
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
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... 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
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 Norg... View more info
By: Holzel, Tom; Salkeld, Audrey
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Pimlico: 1996
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 1534205
First paperback printing. 1996 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 326 pp. Several pages of photographs. George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8/9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s. During British Mount Everest Expedition 1924, the third British attempt on the world's highest mountain, Mallory and his climbing partner Andrew Irvine both disappe... View more info
By: Holzel, Tom; Salkeld, Audrey
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Jonathan Cape: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2266881
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
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 ... View more info
By: Hunt, John
Price: $7.00
Publisher: The Mountaineers: 1993
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2265868
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
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. ... View more info
By: Johnson, Russell; Moran, Kerry
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Park Street Press: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2195144
First edition. Ink date and ink message on title page.Jacket toned, sticker adhesive on bottom left front corner of jacket, jacket edges rubbed. 1989 Large Hardcover. 126 pp. The record of a spiritual journey through an extraordinary land, and of the devoted pilgrims who seek to climb Mount Kailas. Two Americans recount their experiences during the sacred pilgrimage to one of the most remote places on Earth. With more than 100 color photographs that capture the awe-inspi... View more info
By: Johnston, Tim
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 2015
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2269889
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 a... View more info
By: Krakauer, Jon
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Villard: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2267752
First edition. 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 th... View more info
By: Landon, Percival; Colonel Younghusband (Introduction)
Price: $95.00
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co.: 1905
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1996828
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 subju... View more info
By: Le Sueur, Alec
Price: $5.00
Publisher: RDR Books: 2003
Seller ID: 2260238
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 M... View more info
By: Livesay, Ann
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Silver River Books: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2269171
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 Himala... View more info
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Bantam Books: 1979
Seller ID: 2207949
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 Leopar... 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
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
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
