The definitive guidebook to climbing Aconcagua in South America. At 6962m, Aconcagua is the highest peak outside the Himalayas & is accessible to both trekkers & mountaineers. The book covers two popular trekking routes: the Normal (Horcones Valley) route & the Vacas Valley (Polish Glacier) route. It also

Includes:: trekking routes up Tupungato, the Maipo Volcano, & other acclimatisation treks, with suggestions for things to see & do around Mendoza & Santiago City. The guide provides a wealth of practical & indispensable information for those taking on the challenge of Aconcagua. There is information on travel to South America & to the start of the trek, & essential know-how on preparing for high-altitude mountaineering, including advice on equipment, coping with altitude, & strategies for acclimatisation. It gives expert advice on permits, food & water, hiring guides & mules, & staying healthy. With maps & colour photos & supplemented by background information on the mountain, its history, geology, wildlife & local culture, this is a comprehensive & must-read guide for anyone considering tackling Aconcagua.

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A map of the region of Aconcagua. Contour lines are at an interval of 500 metres, roads & paths are marked, peaks with height in metres, glaciers & ridges are shown. The cartography is based on Argentinian Military Survey sources which have been updated in 2002 by Servei General d' Informaci ...

Aconcagua area at 1:50, 000 on a durable, waterproof & tear-resistant, contoured & GPS compatible map from terra Quest, providing coverage of the Aconcagua Provincial Park with access from the road linking Punta de Vascas, Los Penitentes, Puente del Inca & the Cristo Redentor Tunnel crossing to Chile. The map divides the area north/south with a good overlap between the sides, extending north to Cerro La Mano on the northern boundary of the park, & south of the road to include Cerro Panitentes. Topography is vividly presented by contours at 25m intervals, enhanced by relief shading & graphics for glaciers & moraine. An overprint highlights the approach routes to Aconcagua, indicating main trails & difficult passages. Mountain huts & bivouac places are marked, as well as hotels & restaurants in the local settlements, medical help, tourist information, etc. Latitude & longitude grid is drawn at intervals of 1’. Map legend

Includes:: English. The map is laminated in a format similar to the old cloth-dissected maps so that sections of it can be easily folded back without damage.

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Aconcagua
- A Climbing Guide is an essential book for all those wanting to understand the many unique challenges of the highest
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Discover the cuisine of a secret part of southernmost Tuscany, a sliver of land known as La Costa D` Argento
- the silver coast.
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How do the places we live in & visit shape our lives & memories? What does it mean to reside in different locations across the span of a life? In richly textured portraits of places seen from within, Nicholas Howe contemplates how places create & gather their stories & how, in turn, a sense of place locates the stories of our own lives. Howe begins with one of the finest descriptions ever written of Buffalo, that city on an inland sea where he grew up. He gives us a fresh Paris, viewed from the river below. & he depicts Oklahoma as a site of open lands & dislocation
- a place of coming & going. Howe then turns to Chartres, a traditional location of pilgrimage, to ask what other sites might still be capable of compelling visitors in secular time. He portrays Berlin as a scene of twentieth-century history
- & a city that helped him make sense of his American life. Finally, he writes about Columbus, Ohio, as home. Vividly rendering the places he has known, Howe meditates on the weight of home, the temptations of the metropolis, the fact of dislocation, the unraveling of history, the desire to remake ourselves through voyage, & the wonder of the familiar. In ways that too often elude travel writers, it is place that holds our imagination, that inspires much of our art & literature. ” Across an Inland Sea” evokes the various senses of place that can fill & haunt a life
- & ultimately give life its form & meaning.


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This is a true ` Boys` Own` adventure story of how three English schoolboys spent the summer of 1863 trekking through the Swiss & Italian Alps before conquering Mont Blanc. It is an utterly unique journal written by one of that party who would go on the become one of the great mountain & travel writers of the Victorian era & make a huge contribution to the Royal Geographic Society & the Alpine Club. His name was Douglas William Freshfield. Douglas William Freshfield was born on Sunday, 27 April 1845 in London, the only son of Henry Ray Freshfield & Jane Quinton Crawford. After being educated at Eton College & University College, Oxford, he followed his father into the legal profession & was called to the bar in 1870. One of the features of his privileged childhood was the opportunity to travel with his parents & enjoy long summer holidays abroad. At the age of eight he had his first experience of the Swiss Alps undertaking a journey from Basel to Chamonix. Eventually, in 1863, he was ready to undertake an Alpine adventure of his own planning. This volume, which he arranged to have printed privately in 1865 was his first work of mountain literature & also his rarest. It is his journal of that trek made from the southern shores of Lake Geneva, in the company of two schoolfriends, through the Swiss Alps & into northern Italy during the summer of 1863. Freshfield was only 18 when he made the trip, & in the narrative of the journal can be found the beginnings of the style & observational genius that was to serve him well over the course of his writing career. The reader is engaged at once with the three young men as they begin their adventure & is bowled along as an unseen travelling companion through the high routes & passes, the valleys & gorges until making the summit with them on Mont Blanc. It is an engaging & informative journal of how privileged young Englishmen once spent their leisure time & reveals a lifestyle long gone now but still worthy of reminiscence. ...

The island of Crete was home to Europe`s earliest civilization. Since the time of the Minoans, 4000 years ago, it has served as a crossroads where the Eastern & Western worlds have met & exchanged skills & ideas, materials & artefacts. At Knossos, with its gigantic palace complex where the legendary Minos was king & where Theseus slew the Minotaur, we find one of the world`s wondrous historical sites. From successive waves of rulers
- the Greeks, Romans, Arabs & the Empires of Byzantium, Venice & Ottomans
- Crete has aquired layered strata of history unlike any other l&. It is this heritage
- as well as the astonishing natural beauty of the place
- that has drawn visitors from around the world. Their writings are collected in this illustrated book, which is the first of three works together spanning the great island from east to west.



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