Mt Etna & its environs at 1:50, 000 on a double-sided map from LAC in their Global Map imprint, with plenty of information for all types of recreational activities: hiking, climbing, biking, caving, canoeing, paragliding, diving, etc. The map is double-sided, with a very generous overlap between the sides, & covers an area from Moio Alcantara north of Mt Etna (so including Taormina & Giardini-Naxos) to beyond Catania, with an inset extending the coverage along the coast to include the Riserva Naturale Oasi del Simeto. Topography is presented by contours with relief shading. Bold colouring shows lava fields, indicating dates of eruptions, & many smaller individual peaks & craters are named. Boundaries of Parco dell’ Etna & other protected areas are marked. Road network indicates routes closed to motorized traffic & local railway lines are shown with stations. The map is annotated with extensive information for various recreational pursuits: • hiking trails graded into easy, moderate & difficult, with brief descriptions of 12 selected routes• alpine itineraries, also graded according to the degree of difficulty• climbing sites• lava caves graded into easy & difficult to access• 23 mountain bike trails, listed in a table showing their length, ascent, etc.• 17 diving sites with brief descriptions• 4 paragliding sites, also with brief descriptions• Kayaking & rafting routes, graded according to difficulty & indicating obstructions, dangerous points, etc.• alpine & cross country ski routes• also marked are mountain refuges, beaches, bird watching sites, notable trees, etc. The map has a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend & all the text are in Italian & English. ...

Mount Etna & Taormina at 1:175, 000 in Touring Club Italiano’ series of Smart Maps, printed on light waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper, with a street plan of central Taormina, annotated with several sights, plus more recommendations of places worth visiting. Coverage extends to the northern coastline of Sicily including Messina & the connections to the mainl&, & southwards past Catania. Cartography is from TCI’s excellent regional series at 1:200, 000, enlarged here to 1:175, 000 & with an additional overprint to highlight the publishers’ recommendations. On the reverse are notes about local festivals, beaches, spas, protected nature areas, gastronomic specialities, etc, or, since all the text is in Italian only: natura e ambiente, arte e cultura, manifestazioni, sapori e ambiente, & tempo libero. Map legend & all the text are in Italian only. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Morphotectonic map of the Mount Etna area at 1:75, 000 published by Litografia Artistica Cartografica & prepared by the Geology Department of the University of Catania. Extensive text explaining the use of colours & symbols on the map is in Italian & English. The base map has contours at 50m intervals & shows local towns & villages, including Catania, with the network of connecting roads & tracks. The map also

Includes:: a cross-section profile of Mount Etna showing different vents & an inset with a physical map of the area.

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Mount Everest on a visually stunning map published by the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research, with its reverse side showing ...

Mount Everest in a series of maps of Nepal published by the German & Austrian Alpine Clubs as part of their coverage of areas outside Europe. The map, edited in 1957 & last printed in 1999 has contours at 20m intervals, with all peak & spot heights given both in metres & feet. Fewer names of peaks, ridges, glaciers, settlements, etc. are shown than on other maps of this area. The map covers primarily the Nepali side of the Everest massif, extending south to Pangboche & from Changri La in the west to Gangshung Glacier in the east. The Nepal
- Tibet border is not marked. Margin ticks give latitude & longitude at intervals of 5
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` Whether these mountains are climbed or not, smaller expeditions are a step in the right direction.` It`s 1938, the British have thrown everything they`ve got at Everest but they`ve still not reached the summit. War in Europe seems inevitable; the Empire is shrinking. Still reeling from failure in 1936, the British are granted one more permit by the Tibetans, one more chance to climb the mountain. Only limited resources are available, so can a small team be assembled & succeed where larger teams have failed? H.W. Tilman is the obvious choice to lead a select team made up of some of the greatest British mountaineers history has ever known, including Eric Shipton, Frank Smythe & Noel Odell. Indeed, Tilman favours this lightweight approach. He carries oxygen but doesn`t trust it or think it ethical to use it himself, & refuses to take luxuries on the expedition, although he does regret leaving a case of champagne behind for most of his time on the mountain. On the mountain, the team is cold, the weather very wintery. It is with amazing fortitude that they establish a camp six at all, thanks in part to a Sherpa going by the family name of Tensing. Tilman carries to the high camp, but exhausted he retreats, leaving Smythe & Shipton to settle in for the night. He records in his diary, ` Frank & Eric going well-think they may do it.` But the monsoon is fast approaching.. . In Mount Everest 1938, first published in 1948, Tilman writes that it is difficult to give the layman much idea of the actual difficulties of the last 2, 000 feet of Everest. He returns to the high camp &, in exceptional style, they try for the ridge, the route to the summit & those immense difficulties of the few remaining feet. ...

Mount Everest on a double-sided wall map from the National Geographic, produced to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first ascent, combining on one side a spectacular panorama model highlighting three historical expedition routes, plus on the reverse a map of the Sagarmatha National Park, aerial views of the peak, etc. On one side is a spectacular photo-like panorama of the Everest area produced from digital data: 5m contour lines & aerial stereo-photographs combined to provide a three dimensional model. Coverage extends south-west to the 1953 & the present day Base Camps; from the peak of Mt Everest the map stretches beyond the North Col & Changtse, & on the other side Lhotse & Nuptse are included. Contour lines are drawn at 100m intervals; heights for peaks & passes are both in meters & feet. An overprint shows the routes of the British 1953 expedition when Sir Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay first reaches the summit, of the 1963 US expedition when James Whittacker become the first American to climb Mt. Everest, & of the Chinese expedition which in 1960 became the first to reach the summit from the north side. On the reverse side is a map of the Sagarmatha National Park at 1:90, 000 with finely drawn relief shading & colouring providing an excellent representation of the mountainous terrain. Coverage extends south to Lukla & the map shows settlements & various places of interest as well as trekking routes to the Everest Base Camp, Gokyo Lakes, the Island Peak & the Nangpa Glacier & Pass. Surrounding panels & text provide more information: aerial photos of the southern & the northern approaches overprinted with various expedition routes, a map showing the increase in the number of visitors to the area, notes & drawings about the Tibetan borderlands & sherpas homel&, etc. ...

Exclusive to Stanfords. Members in camp during the 1924 Mount Everest Expedition, photographed by John Noel, 1924. In the back row (left to right)
- Andrew Irvine, George Mallory, Edward Norton, Noel Odell & John Macdonald. In the front row (left to right)
- Edward Shebbeare, Geoffrey Bruce, Howard Somervell & Bentley Beetham. This photograph was taken during the Mount Everest Expedition aimed at reaching the summit from the North Side. Printed on matte archival quality photographic paper & cardboard mounted. About this range: Exclusive to Stanfords, the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) has selected a range of vintage photographs of travel & exploration. The images are from the Society

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One of a range of items specially created for Stanfords, this delightful A5 notebook is based on the National Geographic Society’s map of Mount Everest. The cartography on display is beautifully detailed & when printed on a notebook, makes a superb gift for any time of year. The notebook has 192 blank pages on 80gsm & a flexible hard cover. ...

Mount Fuji, alas in Japanese, on an excellent map from Mapple providing topographic coverage at 1:50, 000/1:25, 000/1:10, 000 with hiking routes annotated in detail with ascent & descent times, plus maps of other nearby hiking areas. The map is printed on light, waterproof & tear resistant plastic paper. On one side a topographic map with contours at 20m intervals & altitude colouring covers Mount Fuji & the area mainly to the north of it, including Lake Yamanakako, Lake Motusuko & Lake Saiko, with coverage extended further north beyond Lake Kawaguchiko by one of the panels on the reverse side. Hiking routes are highlighted & annotated with ascent & descent times shown in detail for sections of the routes. On the reverse approaches to the summit of Mount Fuji from the north, east & south are shown enlarged to 1:25, 000, with the summit area itself presented at 1:10, 000. Also provided is a circular diagram showing names of other mountains & localities visible from the summit of Mount Fuji. Another panel at 1:50, 000 shows hiking routes around Mount Ashitakayama to the south of Mount Fuji. A further panel provides a road map at 1:300, 000 of the surrounding area indicating which sections of it are covered by the more detailed maps described above. The three maps at 1:50, 000 have latitude at longitude lines at intervals of 1 ...