Mountaineering Essays

Author : Michael T. H. Sadler,Julian S. Huxley,Norman Egerton Young,Hugh Kingsmill Lunn,H. E. G. Tyndale,N. T. Huxley,H. R. Pope,Arnold H. M. Lunn
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547632641

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Oxford Mountaineering Essays by Michael T. H. Sadler,Julian S. Huxley,Norman Egerton Young,Hugh Kingsmill Lunn,H. E. G. Tyndale,N. T. Huxley,H. R. Pope,Arnold H. M. Lunn Pdf

"Oxford Mountaineering Essays" by Michael T. H. Sadler, Julian S. Huxley, Norman Egerton Young, Hugh Kingsmill Lunn, H. E. G. Tyndale, N. T. Huxley, H. R. Pope, Arnold H. M. Lunn. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Armand Edwards Singer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015013455392

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Essays on the Literature of Mountaineering by Armand Edwards Singer Pdf

Author : John Muir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011840266

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Mountaineering Essays by John Muir Pdf

This volume contains eleven mountain adventures, from the high Sierras in California to first ascents in Alaska. In each John Muir, who founded the Sierra Club in 1892, maintains a careful and subtle balance between the physical and symbolic aspects of ascending or observing the sublimity of his surroundings. Mountains are for him a source of discovery, not merely of new geography, but also of the inner human, and they represent a supreme test and an affirmation of the human spirit.

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0898861187

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Moments of Doubt and Other Mountaineering Writings by David Roberts Pdf

Moments of Doubt is a collection of 20 essays and articles on mountaineering and adventure by David Roberts, selected from the published works of two decades. It showcases one of the most highly regarded writers in the field.

Author : Arnold H Lunn
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022020315

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Oxford Mountaineering Essays by Arnold H Lunn Pdf

A collection of essays about mountaineering written by Arnold H. Lunn, an accomplished skier and mountaineer who founded the Alpine Ski Club. Lunn writes about his own experiences climbing in the Alps as well as the history and culture of mountain climbing. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in mountaineering and the outdoors. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Ed Douglas
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781911342496

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The Magician's Glass by Ed Douglas Pdf

'How much risk is worth taking for so beautiful a prize?' The Magician's Glass by award-winning writer Ed Douglas is a collection of eight recent essays on some of the biggest stories and best-known personalities in the world of climbing. In the title essay, he writes about failure on Annapurna III in 1981, one of the boldest attempts in Himalayan mountaineering on one of the most beautiful lines – a line that remains unclimbed to this day. Douglas writes about bitter controversies, like that surrounding Ueli Steck's disputed solo ascent of of the south face of Annapurna, the fate of Toni Egger on Cerro Torre in 1959 – when Cesare Maestri claimed the pair had made the first ascent, and the rise and fall of Slovenian ace Tomaz Humar. There are profiles of two stars of the 1980s: the much-loved German Kurt Albert, the father of the 'redpoint', and the enigmatic rock star Patrick Edlinger, a national hero in his native France who lost his way. In Crazy Wisdom, Douglas offers fresh perspectives on the impact mountaineering has on local communities and the role climbers play in the developing world. The final essay explores the relationship between art and alpinism as a way of understanding why it is that people climb mountains.

Author : Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn,Arnold Lunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Alps
ISBN : PRNC:32101072325234

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Oxford Mountaineering Essays by Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn,Arnold Lunn Pdf

Author : Adam Watson
Publisher : Paragon Publishing
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781782224600

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Essays on lone trips, mountain-craft and other hill topics by Adam Watson Pdf

This book begins with a thought-provoking article now reprinted, criticising the increasing influence of politically-correct organisations and politicians who desire to control freewill and mountaineering. Then comes a chapter with a critique of several writers on the Cairngorms in comparison with the original Seton Gordon. After the author published a review in 1977 on ‘The wildlife potential of the Cairngorms region’, he came under unwarranted attack by two influential private landowners who misrepresented what he wrote and even included a threat. A wider public should be aware of this. There follows an essay on biologist Professor Vero C. Wynne-Edwards, and another on the history of the research station near Banchory, established for studying at first red grouse and then ecological problems of mountain, moorland, woodland and fresh-water. The last chapter – the most important one and occupying a third of the book – gives the author’s lifetime view of the value of lone trips in climbing, ski-mountaineering and mountain-craft.

Author : Jill Neate
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0938567047

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Mountaineering Literature by Jill Neate Pdf

Long established as a standard reference work worldwide, this is a thorough bibliography of all mountaineering books that are of practical use to climbers or for reading pleasure or historical interest. Documenting more than 2000 books of mountaineering literature, it also includes nearly 900 climber's guidebooks, a sampling of more than 400 works of mountaineering fiction, plus journals and bibliographies.

Author : Jim Perrin
Publisher : Neil Wilson Publishing Ltd
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1903238986

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The Climbing Essays by Jim Perrin Pdf

Recognised as one of Britain's mountain writers, this collection brings together the best of author's essays and articles on climbing. It is selected from four decades of describing and commenting on the experience of rock-climbing and the characters of the climbing community.

Author : Victor Saunders
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781912560684

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Structured Chaos by Victor Saunders Pdf

'Mountains have given structure to my adult life. I suppose they have also given me purpose, though I still can't guess what that purpose might be. And although I have glimpsed the view from the mountaintop and I still have some memory of what direction life is meant to be going in, I usually lose sight of the wood for the trees. In other words, I, like most of us, have lived a life of structured chaos.' Structured Chaos is Victor Saunders' follow-up to Elusive Summits (winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize in 1990), No Place to Fall and Himalaya: The Tribulations of Vic & Mick. He reflects on his early childhood in Malaya and his first experiences of climbing as a student, and describes his progression from scaling canal-side walls in Camden to expeditions in the Himalaya and Karakoram. Following climbs on K2 and Nanga Parbat, he leaves his career as an architect and moves to Chamonix to become a mountain guide. He later makes the first ascent of Chamshen in the Saser Kangri massif, and reunites with old friend Mick Fowler to climb the north face of Sersank. This is not just a tale of mountaineering triumphs, but also an account of rescues, tragedies and failures. Telling his story with humour and warmth, Saunders spans the decades from youthful awkwardness to concerns about age-related forgetfulness, ranging from 'Where did I put my keys?' to 'Is this the right mountain?' Structured Chaos is a testament to the value of friendship and the things that really matter in life: being in the right place at the right time with the right people, and making the most of the view.

Author : Terry Gifford
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780820327969

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Reconnecting with John Muir by Terry Gifford Pdf

Advancing for the first time the concept of "post-pastoral practice," Reconnecting with John Muir springs from Terry Gifford's understanding of the great naturalist as an exemplar of integrated, environmentally conscious knowing and writing. Just as the discourses of science and the arts were closer in Muir's day--in part, arguably, because of Muir--it is time we learned from ecology to recognize how integrated our own lives are as readers, students, scholars, teachers, and writers. When we defy the institutional separations, purposely straying from narrow career tracks, the activities of reading, scholarship, teaching, and writing can inform each other in a holistic "post-pastoral" professional practice. Healing the separations of culture and nature represents the next way forward from the current crossroads in the now established field of ecocriticism. The mountain environment provides a common ground for the diverse modes of engagement and mediation Gifford discusses. By attempting to understand the meaning of Muir's assertion that "going to the mountains is going home," Gifford points us toward a practice of integrated reading, scholarship, teaching, and writing that is adequate to our environmental crisis.

Author : Tom Patey
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0898865425

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One Man's Mountains by Tom Patey Pdf

The first American edition of a mountaineering classic: stories, satire, and verse by the legendary Scottish climber.

Author : Mikel Vause
Publisher : Mountain N 'Air Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : UOM:39015050131435

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Rock and Roses by Mikel Vause Pdf

Author : LIT Verlag
Publisher : LIT Verlag
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783643966353

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Aldous Huxley Annual by LIT Verlag Pdf

Volume 22 opens with two little-known Huxley writings, "A Lunndon Mountaineering Essay" (1914), edited by Gerhard Wagner, and Huxley's contributions in French at the Paris 1933 congress on the future of the European spirit, edited and translated into English by James Sexton. This section is followed by a further selection of papers from the Seventh International Aldous Huxley Symposium held at Toulon in October 2021, many of them devoted to a variety of neglected Huxley issues or to the second part of the Huxley Forum, entitled "Aldous Huxley's Controversial Philosophical Theories." An overview of the conference programme can be consulted on the Internet via https://sites.univ-tln.fr/huxley-toulon/en/program/. The volume closes with further articles on Huxley's concept of the ultimate revolution, on an aficionado's life-long personal experience with Huxley's works, and on Huxley's many-sided response to Charles Dickens.