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Climbers who court danger
in the world's highest
places risk far more than
just their own skins.
When tragedy strikes,
what happens to the
people who love them? Why
would anyone choose to
invest in a future with a
high-altitude climber?
What is life like in the
shadow of the mountain?
Such questions have long
been taboo within the
international world of
mountaineering. Now Maria
Coffey breaks this
silence. She recounts
climbers' stories of
near-death experiences,
and gives a voice to the
families and loved ones
of Chris Bonington, Ed
Viesturs, Anatoli
Boukreev and Alex Lowe,
amongst many other famous
names. Her riveting
narrative weaves tales of
adventure with
first-person accounts of
the people left behind,
highlighting the
conflicting beauty,
passion and devastation
of this alluring
obsession.
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WINNER OF THE BOARDMAN
TASKER PRIZE
2008
Metro magazine
recently
wrote
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Joe Simpson was well
equiped to tackle the
unclimbed West Face of
the remote 21, 000 ft
Siula Grande in the
Peruvian Andes with just
his partner, Simon
Yates. In June 1985 they
achieved the summit
before disaster struck. A
few days later, Simon
staggered into Base Camp,
exhausted and
frostbitten, to tell
their non-climbing
companion that Joe was
dead. For three days he
wrestled with guilt as
they prepared to return
home. Then a cry in the
night took them out with
torches, where they
found Joe badly injured,
crawling through the
snowstorm in a delirium.
Far fromcausing Joe's
death, Simon had
paradoxically saved his
friend's life.
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Joe Simpson with just his
partner, Simon Yates
tackled the unclimbed
West Face of the remote
21, 000 ft SIULA GRANDE
in the Peruvian Andes. In
June 1995 they achieved
the summit before
disaster struck. A few
days later, Simon
staggered into Base Camp,
exhausted and
frost-bitten, to tell
their non-climbing
companion that Joe was
dead. For three days he
wrestled with guilt as
they prepared to return
home. Then a cry in the
night took them out
torches, where they
found Joe, badly
injured, crawling
through the snowstorm in
a delirium. Far from
causing Joe's death,
Simon had paradoxically
saved his friend's life.
What happened, and how
they dealt with the
psychological traumas
that resulted when Simon
was forced into the
appalling decision to cut
the rope, makes not only
an epic of survival but a
compelling testament of
friendship.
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Joe Simpson has
experienced a life filled
with adventure but marred
by death. He has endured
the painful attrition of
climbing friends in
accidents, calling into
question the perilously
exhilarating activity to
which he has devoted his
life. Probability is
inexorably closing in.
The tragic loss of a
close friend forces a
momentous decision upon
him. It is time to turn
his back on the mountains
that he has loved. Never
more alive than when most
at risk, he has come to
see a last climb on the
hooded, mile-high North
Face of the Eiger as the
cathartic finale. In a
narrative which takes the
reader through extreme
experiences, from an
avalanche in Bolivia,
ice-climbing in the Alps
and Colorado and
paragliding in Spain -
before his final
confrontation with the
Eiger - Simpson reveals
the inner truth of
climbing, exploring both
the power of the mind and
the frailties of the
body. The subject of his
new book is the siren
song of fear and his
struggle to come to terms
with it.
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Nobody has written more
eloquently about the
human side of high
altitude mountaineering
then Maria Coffey. In
this new edition of
Fragile Edge, she
describes her love affair
with elite British
mountaineer Joe Tasker,
who perished with his
partner Peter Boardman
while attempting
Everest's then unclimbed
Northeast Ridge in 1982.
Coffey relives her
experiences, first
within the hard-partying
mountaineering scene and
then during her long
journey to understanding
and acceptance of the
tragedy that cost her the
man she loved. She gives
us an insider's view of
the life of a world-class
mountaineer and recounts
her deeply moving
pilgrimage with
Boardman's widow across
Tibet; a journey which
retraced Tasker and
Boardman's steps to their
abandoned Advance Base
Camp at 21, 000 feet on
Everest.
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The Long Routes:
Mountaineering Rock
Climbs in Snowdonia and
the Lake District is a
collection of some of the
finest climbs on our high
mountain cliffs. The
routes described in this
book have been chosen
because they represent a
full-blown mountaineering
experience, where the
length of the climb, the
situation of the
mountain, the sense of
exposure and the element
of adventure count for
more than sheer technical
challenge.Typically
graded between
'difficult' and 'severe',
the routes tend to
follow the logical line
up a cliff and onto a
mountain's summit. They
all represent long and
committing trips, but
fall within the
capabilities of the
average weekend climber
or mountaineer, and
provide the natural next
step for the adventurous
scrambler. The Long
Routes outlines 45
classic climbs,
including Pinnacle Rib on
Tryfan, Dow Crag's
Gordon and Craig's route,
Great Gable's, Needle's
Ridge, and Red Wall and
Longland's Continuation
on Lliwedd. It also looks
at the best way of
approaching the routes,
examining the skills,
techniques and equipment
needed to undertake them.
Each route description is
enhanced by a photograph
of the cliff, along with
a crag diagram and topo,
and the book contains a
portfolio of fine
photographs showing
climbers in action on
these routes.
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When Chris Townsend
reached the summit of Ben
Hope in Sutherland, he
walked his way into the
record books. After 118
days in which he had
covered more than 1, 700
miles and climber over
575, 000 feet, he had
completed the first
single continuous journey
of all 277 Munros and 240
Tops in the Scottish
Highlands.This is the
story of that remarkable
walk from the start on
Ben More on the Isle of
Mull through to the
finish, the equivalent
of climbing Mount Everest
18 times. For the author,
the real enjoyment of
the walk was not in
counting up the summits
or the miles but in
spending week after week
in the hills and living
in the wilds. In THE
MUNROS AND TOPS, Chris
Townsend recalls the joys
of observing the birds
and animals, the trees
and flowers, the
changing shapes of the
hills and the play of
light on their slopes. He
writes about the
complexities of
route-finding and the
challenge of rugged
terrain and of coping
with often atrocious
weather conditions.
Illustrated with
photographs taken during
the walk, this is a
stirring account of a
unique achievement.
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Following the success of
EPIC: STORIES OF SURVIVAL
FROM THE WORLD'S HIGHEST
PEAKS, Adrenaline Books
returns with HIGH:
STORIES OF SURVIVAL FROM
EVEREST AND K2. The first
anthology devote
exculusively to climbing
on the world's two
highest and best-known
mountains, High spans
the years 1933 through
1996. Editor Clint Willis
has gathered the
best-written and most
exciting prose about
mountaineering's ultimate
challenges by the
century's most
accomplished writers -
from Jon Krakauer to
David Roberts to Chris
Bonnington. When Matt
Dickinson tells what it's
like for an amateur to
climb a swaying aluminium
ladder high on Everest's
North Col route, we
understand his fear. When
Jim Haverl waits high on
K2's Abruzzi Ridge for
sunrise over China to
slow the bitter wind and
warm his extremities, we
know he is cold. When
Maria Coffey mourns the
loss of her beloved, who
died on Everest's
unclimbed North Ridge,
we grieve with her. And
when Doug Scott summits
Everest via the
horrendously difficult
Southwest face and later
writes of the moment,
`All the world lay before
us..., ' it lies before
us as well.
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The enthralling account,
by the leader of the
French expedition, of
the first conquest of
Annapurna - at that time,
and at more than 8000
metres, the highest
mountain ever climbed.
It is a story of
breathtaking courage and
determination against
appalling odds. In
records of
mountaineering, in tales
of human endeavour,
there is nothing so
unforgettable as the
account of the descent by
the triumphant but
frost-bitten men, after
the monsoon had broken,
through the flooded
valleys of
Nepal.
As well as
an introduction by Joe
Simpson, this new
edition includes 16 pages
of photographs, which
provide a remarkable
visual record of this
legendary
expedition.
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Epic is a collection of
fifteen memorable
accounts of legend-making
expeditions to the
world's most famous
peaks, often in the
world's worst possible
conditions. Clint Willis
has gathered the most
exciting climbing
literature of the modern
age into one
cliff-hanging volume.
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CLIMB: STORIES OF
SURVIVAL FROM ROCK, SNOW
AND ICE offers the
world's best writing
about mountaineering in
all its forms - from the
rigours and risks of high
altitude climbing on
Everest to the challenges
of scaling E1 Captain's
3, 000 vertical feet.
Like it's predecessors in
the Adrenaline series,
CLIMB examines its
subject though the eyes
of gifted writers with
great stories to tell.
Many of the selections in
CLIMB are about danger
and its consequences In
it you can read about >
The three fatal
mountaineering accidents
David Roberts witnessed
before he had turned 22 >
A crevasse fall that has
haunted Jim Wickwire for
18 years > The confusion
and drama of an attempt
to rescue climbers on the
Grand Teton in a story by
pete Sinclair These
stories reveal climbing's
allure as well as its
terrible risks. Legendary
Yosemite veteran John
Long recalls the joys of
climbing the world's
hardest rock routes in
the company of friends
whose boldness scares
even him. Scotsmen Hamish
MacInnes, Tom Patey and
Andrew Greig aal feature,
too in stories from the
Eiger's dreaded North
face, Mustagh Tower in
the Karakoram and the
Alps.
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Together with Chris
Bonington and other
distinguished British
climbers, Stephen
Venables was high on the
unclimbed and sacred
mountain of Panch Chuli
when, at 1am on a dark
Himalayan night, his
abseil failed and he fell
catastrophically,
somersaulting from rock
to rock and landing,
seriously-wounded, at
the end of a rope
suspended above a
50-degree icefield. This
is the story of his
arduous and almost
miraculous survival, and
of the brilliant,
committed teamwork which
brought him to safety.
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'A classic of its kind...
His vivid, high powered
but never overdramatised
account of the ascent
still reads splendidly'
The Irish
Times
In
1950, no mountain higher
than 8, 000 meters had
ever been climbed.
Maurice Herzog and other
members of the French
Alpine Club resolved to
try. This is the
enthralling story of the
first conquest of
Annapurna and the
harrowing descent. With
breathtaking courage and
grit manifest on every
page, Annapurna
is one of the greatest
adventure stories ever
told.
As well as
an introduction by Joe
Simpson, this new
edition includes 16 pages
of photographs, which
provide a remarkable
visual record of this
legendary
expedition.
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The enthralling account,
by the leader of the
French expedition, of
the first conquest of
Annapurna - at that time,
and at more than 8000
metres, the highest
mountain ever climbed.
It is a story of
breathtaking courage and
determination against
appalling odds. In
records of
mountaineering, in tales
of human endeavour,
there is nothing so
unforgettable as the
account of the descent by
the triumphant but
frost-bitten men, after
the monsoon had broken,
through the flooded
valleys of
Nepal.
As well as
an introduction by Joe
Simpson, this new
edition includes 16 pages
of photographs, which
provide a remarkable
visual record of this
legendary
expedition.
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In 1992, an Indian
climber was left to die
on the South Col of Mount
Everest by other climbers
who watched his feebly
waving hand from their
tent. He was filmed in
his last hours for a
television feature. Why
did onlookers not hold
the dying man's hand and
comfort him? The answer
appals Joe Simpson, who
was himself left for dead
in a cervasse in Peru in
1985 - 'because it might
compromise their summit
bid'. It is an ethical
question that Joe is
forced to confront as he
climbs a hazardous route
on Pumori. Now that
Everest has become the
playground of the rich,
where commercial
operators offer guided
tours to the top,
camping admist the
detritus and unburied
corpses of previous less
fortunate climbers, Joe
wonders if the noble
instincts that once
characterised
mountaineering have been
irrevocably displaced -
as in politics, in
business, in the media
and in other facets of
society.
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Graham Forbes loved to
play guitar, whether it
was with local rock
groups in village halls
or touring the big stages
of the world with the
Incredible String Band.
But, like so many
others, he enjoyed the
lifestyle too much: the
gigs, groupies and
booze. At the age of 27,
he found himself more
than a little bewildered
back in Glasgow, ears
ringing, completely
unemployable, with an
empty bottle of tequila
in one hand and a huge
overdraft in the other.
The party was over.Just
when it looked like there
could be only one
outcome, Graham noticed
there were hills nearby
and decided to go for a
walk. It began a journey
that transformed him
totally. It took him from
poverty to building one
of the most successful
small companies in
Scotland and bluffing his
way onto the Board of
Directors of a national
public limited company,
hoping that the next
meeting wouldn't be in a
hotel he had wrecked.
Rock and Roll Mountains
weaves in and out of wild
sex, drugs and rock
tours to glowing sunsets
on some of the most
beautiful summits in the
world There has never
been another book like
this about mountains and
their power to heal, and
how lessons learned
clinging to frozen ice
faces can be used in
running a company and to
win a battle against
alcoholism. It is a book
about extreme sport,
fear and survival - but
without the gung-ho
heroics of mountaineering
writers. It exposes the
mountain mafia, the
bearded fleece dwellers
who are determined to
keep the Scottish
Highlands to themselves.
It tells tales of crazy
climbers, drunken
dockers and mad musicians
and shows how alike they
are. This book is for
anyone who loves the
great music of the '70s -
you can almost hear rock
music explode from the
pages - and for anyone,
like Graham, who has
looked in the mirror and
faced failure. More
importantly, it is very,
very funny.
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A book of adventure,
wisdom and spiritual
enlightenment.
Touching My
Father's
Soul
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The joys, the risks and
the motivations of
mountain climbing are at
the heart of Malcolm
Slesser's remarkable
book. This
autobiographical account
spans 64 years of
mountain exploration in
every continent, during
which both attituded and
technology have undergone
vast changes. It is a
story of the joy of
discovery shared with
friends in high
places.Mountain climbing,
like life itself, is
not without risk. Unlike
most sports, climbing is
the solution to a very
personal equation. The
decision to go on or
return lies with the
climber and is influenced
by his or her awareness
of the risk. In that
awareness lies safety and
the ability to navigate
the cliffs above and the
chasms at your feet. Good
judgement comes from
experience. And
experience comes from
poor judgement. Most
survive to a reasonable
age; some brilliant
climbers like Herman Buhl
and Dougal Haston have
perished through a
momentary lapse of
judgement. Too many die
young, failing to
apprecfiate that safety
lies in the awareness of
danger. The motivation
for mountain climbing is
not risk. It is the joy
of exploration of the
vertical, whether it be
a virgin summit, lonely
precipice or simply a new
line or familiar rock
face.
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