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High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places Books
David Breashears has climbed Mt. Everest four times. For this, he is known as a world-class mountaineer. A lengthy career in documentary filmmaking--including the Imax film, Everest--has earned him wi ...
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Alpenbooks Extreme Alpinism Books
Extreme Alpinism Practical techniques for advanced climbers. Focuses on how top alpine climbers approach the world's most difficult routes. Instruction is on the ethos of climbing the hardest routes w ...
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Everest - Mountain Without Mercy: Mountain Without Mercy Books
When David Breashears agreed to climb Mount Everest with an IMAX camera in order to film from the summit, he had no idea that his little expedition would become embroiled in a tragedy that would make ...
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Glacier and Crevasse Rescue Books
Crevasses are one of those things that many of us who climb wish we didn't have to deal with. Unfortunately many people go out and climb while totally unprepared. Indeed they choose to not deal with i ...
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Mountaineers Books Mount Rainier: A Climbing Guide Books
Now climbers can get away from the crowded dog routes and experience a wide array of Rainier's most fun, challenging, and complex routes. Mount Rainier: A Climbing Guide features 39 of the mountain's ...
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Self-Rescue (How to Rock Climb Series) Books
Whether you need to assist your partner past a difficult section of a climb or rappel down a multiple pitch route with an injured climber, you owe it to yourself and your fellow climbers to be prepare ...
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Touch the Top of the World Books
From Publishers WeeklyIn this moving and adventure-packed memoir, Weihenmayer begins with his gradual loss of sight as a very young child. By the time he became fully blind in high school, he had alre ...
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The Beckoning Silence Books
“I had to stand there and watch while the rest of my life was determined by the shaky adhesion of a few millimetres of fractured ice and the dubious friction of a tiny point of metal in a hairline cra ...
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White Spider Books
At 13,025 feet, the Swiss Eiger doesn't approach the height of Everest or Denali, but the sheer rise and difficulty of its 5900-foot north face keeps it in the company of the world's most celebrated p ...
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The Climb Books
The Climb is Russian mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev's account of the harrowing May 1996 Mount Everest attempt, a tragedy that resulted in the deaths of eight people. The book is also Boukreev's rebuttal ...
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