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Author : Norman Collie
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734041013
Reproduction of the original: Climbing on the Himalaya and Other Mountain Ranges by Norman Collie
Author : Stephen Venables,Clint Willis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1560253738
A compelling account, presented by an accomplished climber who was the first Briton to reach the top of Everest without oxygen, details two climbs in Kashmir, which helped form today's small-sized, elite mountaineering expeditions, and reveals how a skillful, bold, and creative mountaineer can overcome and survive disastrous situations. Original.
Author : Harish Kapadia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Hiking
ISBN : 1859746705
Authored by India's guru of Himalayan exploration, this essential guide book covers 25 sensational treks and 12 inspirational climbing peaks in the mountains stretching from the Siwalik Hills to isolated Ladakh near the high, dry Tibetan plateau.
Author : J Norman Collie
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1498141234
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1902 Edition.
Author : Ed Douglas
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393882469
A magisterial history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures, and adventures among the world’s highest mountains. For centuries, the unique and astonishing geography of the Himalaya has attracted those in search of spiritual and literal elevation: pilgrims, adventurers, and mountaineers seeking to test themselves among the world’s most spectacular and challenging peaks. But far from being wild and barren, the Himalaya has been home to a diversity of indigenous and local cultures, a crucible of world religions, a crossroads for trade, and a meeting point and conflict zone for empires past and present. In this landmark work, nearly two decades in the making, Ed Douglas makes a thrilling case for the Himalaya’s importance in global history and offers a soaring account of life at the "roof of the world." Spanning millennia, from the earliest inhabitants to the present conflicts over Tibet and Everest, Himalaya explores history, culture, climate, geography, and politics. Douglas profiles the great kings of Kathmandu and Nepal; he describes the architects who built the towering white Stupas that distinguish Himalayan architecture; and he traces the flourishing evolution of Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism that brought Himalayan spirituality to the world. He also depicts with great drama the story of how the East India Company grappled for dominance with China’s emperors, how India fought Mao’s Communists, and how mass tourism and ecological transformation are obscuring the bloody legacy of the Cold War. Himalaya is history written on the grandest yet also the most human scale—encompassing geology and genetics, botany and art, and bursting with stories of courage and resourcefulness.
Author : Mick Fowler
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781906148713
On Thin Ice is Mick Fowler's second set of climbing memoirs, following Vertical Pleasure. Here, the celebrated mountaineer records his expeditions since 1990. Despite work and family commitments, he has maintained a regular series of 'big trips' to challenging objectives around the world with a sequence of major successes: Taweche (1995, with Pat Littlejohn), Changabang (1997, with Steve Sustad, Andy Cave and Brendan Murphy), Arwa Tower (1999, with Sustad), Mount Kennedy (2000, with Cave), Siguniang (2002, with Paul Ramsden). Siguniang's hard ice climbing on a fabulous face in deepest China was so admired by the international climbing community that it won the US 'Golden Piton' and the French 'Piolet d'Or', both awards given for the finest alpine achievements in the world during that year. The author describes his travels in the great traditions, with engaging modesty and wit, but the climbs themselves are frequently so dramatic that the anxiety and tension forces its way to the surface to be matched by a corresponding relief and triumph when success and safe descent is achieved. Mick Fowler has thus become Britain's most successful exponent of high-standard lightweight mountaineering in the greater ranges. At 48 he is already something of an elder statesman of a cadre of international activists. They are steadily ticking off the most challenging lines in the world - a 'golden age' of super-alpinism that is now in full swing. How this influences activities on the 8000m peaks where the dangers (rarefied air, weather severity and sheer scale) are greater is an open question. History suggests that as major challenges on the lower peaks are steadily mastered the focus will return to technical challenges offered at the higher altitudes. Whether the results will exceed achievements such as the Kurtyka/Schauer (Gasherbrum 4) and the Bohigas/Lucas (Annapurna 1) remains to be seen. The combination of exotic travel with major climbs provides the ultimate adrenalin-soaked holiday experience that Mick Fowler has mastered to the full. We are transported from the cliffs of Jordan, to remote peaks in deepest Asia, via Taweche and Changabang in the Himalaya, with jaunts to the Andes and Alaska thrown in for good measure. That Fowler has organised this routine for years, while holding down a conventional nine-to-five job with the Inland Revenue, has constantly amazed his peers. In this, his second book, he has also mastered the skills of amusing travel-writing to entertain us as a preliminary to the finale of a titanic struggle on each of his fiendishly demanding climbs.
Author : J. NORMAN. COLLIE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033315478
Author : Sir William Martin Conway
Publisher : London, T. Ficher Unwin
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Himalaya Mountains
ISBN : NYPL:33433009042700
Author : Norman Collie
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-24
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9791041982882
"Embark on an exhilarating journey to the awe-inspiring heights of the Himalaya and beyond with Norman Collie in 'Climbing on the Himalaya and Other Mountain Ranges.' Penned with passion and expertise, this mountaineering narrative, crafted in the early 20th century, shares Collie's thrilling adventures scaling some of the world's most challenging peaks. As Collie conquers towering summits, braving treacherous terrains and unpredictable weather, he unfolds tales of resilience, camaraderie, and the breathtaking beauty that only mountain landscapes can offer. 'Climbing on the Himalaya and Other Mountain Ranges' is more than a mountaineering chronicle; it's a testament to the indomitable spirit of those who seek to touch the sky. Join Collie on this literary ascent where each page reveals a new chapter of high-altitude adventure, making 'Climbing on the Himalaya and Other Mountain Ranges' a must-read for enthusiasts of mountaineering and the allure of Earth's loftiest peaks."
Author : Maurice Isserman,Stewart Angas Weaver,Dee Molenaar
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780300164206
In the first comprehensive history of Himalayan mountaineering in 50 years, the authors offer detailed, original accounts of the most significant climbs since the 1890s, and they compellingly evoke the social and cultural worlds that gave rise to those expeditions.
Author : Doug Scott
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015029273664
This stunning pictorial record of Scott's remarkable climbing career covers more than 26 visits to the most fabled regions of the Greater Himalayan range, including the Hindu Kush, Tibet, the Karakoram, Ladakh, and Bhutan--with descriptions of each region's geographical and sociological perspectives. 400 color photographs.
Author : Doug Scott
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781912560202
Kangchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world and a notoriously difficult and dangerous mountain to climb. First climbed from the west in 1955 by a British team comprising Joe Brown, George Band, Tony Streather and Norman Hardie, it waited over twenty years for a second ascent. The third ascent, from the north, followed in 1979 by a four-man team including the visionary British alpinist Doug Scott. Completed before his death in 2020, and edited by Catherine Moorehead, Kangchenjunga is Doug Scott's final book. Scott explores the mountain and its varied people – the mountain sits on the border between Nepal and Sikkim in north-east India – before going on to look at Western approaches and early climbing attempts on the mountain. Kangchenjunga was in fact long believed to be the highest mountain in the world, until in the nineteenth century it was demonstrated that Peak XV – Everest – was taller. Out of respect for the beliefs of the Sikkim, no climber has ever set foot on the very top of Kangchenjunga, the sacred summit. Scott's own relationship with the mountain began in 1978, three years after his first British ascent of Everest with Dougal Haston. The assembled team featured some of the greatest mountaineers in history: Scott, Joe Tasker, Peter Boardman and Georges Bettembourg. The plan was for a stripped-down expedition the following spring – minimal Sherpa support, no radios, largely self-financed. It was the first time a mountain of this scale had been attempted by a new and difficult route without the use of oxygen, and with such a small team. Scott, Tasker and Boardman summited on 16 May 1979, further cementing their legends in this golden era. Kangchenjunga is Doug Scott's tribute to this sacred mountain, a paean for a Himalayan giant, written by a giant of Himalayan climbing.
Author : Elizabeth Hawley,Richard Salisbury
Publisher : Amer Alpine Club
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0930410998
The historical archives of Elizabeth Hawley-for more than 40 years the meticulous chronicler of mountaineering expeditions in Nepal-are now available on this searchable CD.
Author : Norman 1859-1942 Collie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1361342021
Author : Gerry Galligan
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781909461048
Gerry Galligan's first book is a bold and expansive travel diary recounting his assembling of a small team of Irish mountaineers and their attempts on unclimbed mountains and unexplored valleys in the remote corners of the Indian Himalaya. Getting there, the team see the hardships of the sub-continent, while in the mountains they experience storms, dangers and failure before ultimately, success and contentment. But it is when Gerry returns to the mountains alone and his subsequent experiences overlanding across Asia and Europe back to Ireland that we start to get a glimpse of the big, wide world out there. A world of temples, festivals, holy cows, Kalashnikovs, donkey herders, corruption, opportunists, stoners and sages. Gerry gives us an insight into the day-to-day lives of mountain peoples, the dysfunctional functionality of India. He finds charm and tolerance in Pakistan and a surprising openness in today's Iran. We travel across rural Turkey and work our way back to the efficient and affluent West, where right on cue Gerry meets his first breakdown on a German train. Climbing Ramabang; One man's understanding of mountains, myth and mayhem.