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Author : Bob Villarreal
Publisher : Abbott Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781458213235
The author describes his mountain climbing adventures in the high Andes, beginning in his forties, completing over 30 climbs, many of them alone.
Author : Bob Villarreal
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781665557122
In this book, the author describes his climbing adventures prior to his solo mountaineering days. He began with mountains in Ecuador guided by American Alpine Institute, culminating in a climb of the highest peak in the country, Chimborazo (20,564 feet), in 1989. Because of its height and its proximity to the Equator, it is the highest mountain on Earth when measured from sea level and closest to the Sun when measured from the Earth's core. The next year, he went to Bolivia with the same company and climbed peaks there, the most notable, Illimani (21,122 feet). In 1991, he journeyed to Argentina to attempt the highest mountain in the Andes, Aconcagua (22,841 feet), by the difficult Polish Glacier Direct route, once more with AAI. After that expedition, he felt he had the skills to try things on his own, and he tells of certain of those climbs in his, "Clawing for the Stars. A Solo Climber in the Highest Andes".
Author : Bob Villarreal
Publisher : Abbott Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781458213211
When most altitude climbers reach their mid-forties, they slow down—but for Bob Villarreal, these years marked the beginning of his climbing career rather than the end. At forty, he took a rock-climbing class, but it wasn’t what he was looking for. In a moment of pure and life-changing serendipity, an article about climbing the Andes lit a new fire within him, and an obsession was born. At that point, Bob retired from business and took up mountain climbing. He lost his heart to the staggering, raw, and wild beauty of the High Andes, returning there time and time again to challenge himself, almost always on his own. In defiance of the basic rules of wilderness exploration, Bob traveled solo, well aware that calamity was only one loose rock away and that his survival was never guaranteed. One might wonder why anyone – especially someone in middle age -- would climb alone in the Andes even once, let alone nineteen times (out of thirty total climbs). It’s a question that Villarreal himself can’t adequately answer. Was he in search of adventure, danger, or deeper meaning in his life—and did he ever find his elusive purpose on the mountain? This memoir recalls his perilous adventures on famous Andean peaks as well as mountains in the remotest parts of the Andes along the lengthy border between Chile and Argentina.
Author : Bob Villarreal
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781665528023
A date known to most in the Western World is 1492, when the discovery of the Americas by Columbus closed out the Middle Ages and set the stage for the modern history of the New World. Many military expeditions of but a few hundred men sent forth by the King left Spain for the new territories. During these momentous times, one of these adventurers, Pedro de Mérida, became a conquistador and chronicler of the New World, one who would leave a vibrant record of his exploits in Chile and Peru for us. The Adventure Chronicles of Conquistador Pedro de Mérida is an unforgettable travel adventure back to a remote land and age when the search for gold and power dominated men’s actions as historical events shook the foundation of the mighty Inca Empire.
Author : Alfred Byrd Graf
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 1224 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : House plants
ISBN : UCSC:32106010107743
The third book in Dr. Graf's renowned series of pictorial encyclopedias on ornamental plants in horticulture, this book present, in a kaleidoscope of eight thousand color photographs, more than ten thousand ornamental and fruited plants and trees, including herbaceous perennials and annuals, cacti and other succulents, flowering shrubs and trees, water plants, climbers and creepers, bamboos and grasses, fruits and berries, and exotic plants for indoors, for every climate worldwide. Each entry includes a description of the plant's native habitat and its climatic preferences, including its USDA zone.
Author : J. Esteban Hernández Bermejo,J. León
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251032173
About neglected crops of the American continent. Published in collaboration with the Botanical Garden of Cord�ba (Spain) as part of the Etnobot�nica92 Programme (Andalusia, 1992)
Author : Emily Dickinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UCSD:31822010790632
Author : Joe Simpson
Publisher : Direct Authors
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780957519305
The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer’s harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the summer of 1985, two young, headstrong mountaineers set off to conquer an unclimbed route. They had triumphantly reached the summit, when a horrific accident mid-descent forced one friend to leave another for dead. Ambition, morality, fear and camaraderie are explored in this electronic edition of the mountaineering classic, with never before seen colour photographs taken during the trip itself.
Author : George Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Gardening
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118228340
Author : George Nicholson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Gardening
ISBN : UCAL:$C22380
Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791041807239
We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation? Mrs. Aldwinkle, an English aristocrat of a certain age, has purchased a mansion in the Italian countryside. She wishes to bring a salon of intellectual luminaries into her orbit, and to that end she invites a strange cast of characters to spend time with her in her palazzo: Irene, her young niece; Ms. Thriplow, a governess-turned-novelist; Mr. Calamy, a handsome young man of great privilege and even greater ennui; Mr. Cardan, a worldly gentleman whose main talent seems to be the enjoyment of life; Hovenden, a young motorcar-obsessed lord with a speech impediment; and Mr. Falx, a socialist leader. To this unlikely cast is soon added Mr. Chelifer, an author with an especially florid, overwrought style that is wasted on his day job as editor of The Rabbit Fancier’s Gazette, and the Elvers, a scheming brother who is the guardian of his mentally-challenged sister. As this unlikely group mingles, they discuss a great many grand topics: love, art, language, life, culture. Yet very early on the reader comes to realize that behind the pompousness of their elaborate discussions lies nothing but vacuity—these characters are a satire of the self-important intellectuals of Huxley’s era. His skewering of their intellectual barrenness continues as the group moves on to a trip around the surrounding country, in a satire of the Grand Tour tradition. The party brings their English snobbery out in full force as they traipse around Rome, sure of nothing else except in their belief that Italy is culturally superior simply because it’s Italy. As the vacation winds down, we’re left with a biting lampoon of the elites who suppose themselves to be at the height of art and culture—the kinds of personalities that arise in every generation, sure of their own greatness but unable to actually contribute anything to the world of art and culture that they feel is so important.
Author : Stephen Lord,Jean Bell
Publisher : Trailblazer Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Bicycle
ISBN : 1873756895
A new guide for anyone planning (or dreaming) about taking their bike on a long-distance adventure, this comprehensive manual will make that dream a reality whether it's riding the Karakoram Highway, cycling in Tibet or pedalling from Patagonia to Alaska.
Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : London G. Routledge 1884.
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : HARVARD:HWKJ1Z
Author : Graham Bowley
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062002907
New York Times Bestseller “A refreshingly unadorned account of the true brutality of climbing K2, where heroes emerge and egos are stripped down, and the only thing achieving immortality is the cold ruthless mountain.” — Norman Ollestad, author of Crazy for the Storm In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, New York Times journalist Graham Bowley re-creates one of the most dramatic tales of death and survival in mountaineering history—the 2008 K2 ascent that claimed the lives of eleven climbers In the tradition of Into Thin Air and Touching the Void, No Way Down is the harrowing account of the worst mountain climbing disaster on K2, second to Everest in height. . . but second to no peak in terms of danger. On August 1, 2008, no fewer than eight international teams of mountain climbers—some experienced, others less prepared—ascended K2, the world's second-highest mountain, with the last group reaching the summit at 8 p.m. Then disaster struck. A huge ice chunk came loose above a deadly three-hundred-foot avalanche-prone gully, destroying the fixed guide ropes. More than a dozen climbers—many without oxygen and some with no headlamps—faced the nearly impossible task of descending in the blackness with no guideline and no protection. Over the course of the chaotic night, some would miraculously make it back. Others would not. From tragic deaths to unbelievable stories of heroism and survival, No Way Down is an amazing feat of storytelling and adventure writing, and, in the words of explorer and author Sir Ranulph Fiennes, “the closest you can come to being on the summit of K2 on that fateful day.”
Author : Paul Rosolie
Publisher : Random House
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781448170562
Madre de Dios – ‘Mother of God’ – is a place where the Andean Cloud Forest intermingles with the steaming tropical jungle at the head of the Amazon river. Here can be found the greatest proliferation of living species that has ever existed on Earth, ever. And it is a place which is now under grave threat. Paul Rosolie has travelled to the very heart of this wilderness in search of rare flora and fauna. His adventures – with giant anacondas, huge cayman, the mighty jaguar and one very small anteater – are by turn thrilling, terrifying and revelatory. Paul crosses some of the world’s harshest terrain and encounters some of its most extreme weather conditions. He battles with life-threatening tropical diseases and the extreme mental challenges presented by being alone in the heart of the jungle. Mother of God is an astonishing tale of adventure and survival, set in one of the world’s few remaining truly wild places. It’s a story of nature, red in tooth and claw, and how we must both respect its awesome power and protect its extraordinary glory.