Author : Jim Perrin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Mountaineering
ISBN : OCLC:1280851823
The Climbing Essays
Jim Perrin
The Climbing Essays
The Climbing Essays Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The Climbing Essays book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
The Climbing Essays
Jim Perrin
Author : Jim Perrin
Publisher : Neil Wilson Publishing Ltd
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1903238986
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.
The Magician's Glass
Ed Douglas
Author : Ed Douglas
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781911342496
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.
Essays on the Literature of Mountaineering
Armand Edwards Singer
Author : Armand Edwards Singer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015013455392
Essays on the Literature of Mountaineering by Armand Edwards Singer Pdf
Women Who Dare
Chris Noble
Author : Chris Noble
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493007189
Women Who Dare by Chris Noble Pdf
A celebration of feminine beauty, athleticism, wisdom, and skill—Women Who Dare profiles twenty of America’s most inspiring women climbers ranging from legends like Lynn Hill to the rising stars of today, with stunning color photography by veteran adventure photographer Chris Noble.
Climbing - Philosophy for Everyone
Stephen E. Schmid
Author : Stephen E. Schmid
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781444341461
Climbing - Philosophy for Everyone by Stephen E. Schmid Pdf
Climbing - Philosophy for Everyone presents a collection of intellectually stimulating new essays that address the philosophical issues relating to risk, ethics, and other aspects of climbing that are of interest to everyone from novice climbers to seasoned mountaineers. Represents the first collection of essays to exclusively address the many philosophical aspects of climbing Includes essays that challenge commonly accepted views of climbing and climbing ethics Written accessibly, this book will appeal to everyone from novice climbers to seasoned mountaineers Includes a foreword written by Hans Florine Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, 2010
More Than It Hurts
Emily Small
Author : Emily Small
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0645032115
More Than It Hurts by Emily Small Pdf
Fourteen climbers and mountaineers tell their inspiring, insightful, hilarious, heart-warming and adrenaline filled stories of adventure and misadventure in Australia and beyond.
On the Ridge Between Life and Death
David Roberts
Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781416548768
On the Ridge Between Life and Death by David Roberts Pdf
What compels mountain climbers to take the risks that they do? Is it the thrill in the physical accomplishment, in managing to defy the odds, or both -- and why do they continue to do what they do in the face of such great danger? In On the Ridge Between Life and Death, David Roberts confronts these questions head-on as he recounts the exhilarating highs and desperate lows of his climbing career. By the time he was twenty-two, Roberts had already been involved in three fatal mountain climbing accidents and had escaped death himself by the sheerest of luck. And yet, as he acknowledges, few things have brought him more joy than climbing. In a famous essay on the subject written more than twenty years ago, Roberts judged climbing to be "worth the risk." He continues to climb to this day, and several of his challenging routes in Alaska have never been climbed since. But in reassessing the emotional costs to himself and to loved ones, he reaches a different conclusion, one that is sure to cause controversy not only in climbing circles, but among adventurers of all kinds. Candid and unflinching, On the Ridge Between Life and Death is a compelling examination of the risks we take in order to feel more alive.
The Hard Truth
Kris Hampton
Author : Kris Hampton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1734103604
The Hard Truth by Kris Hampton Pdf
A no nonsense examination of what it takes to not only climb stronger, but to be a better climber.
One Man's Mountains
Tom Patey
Author : Tom Patey
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0898865425
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.
Extreme Horizons
David Pickford
Author : David Pickford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1399956469
Extreme Horizons by David Pickford Pdf
A Feeling for Rock
Sarah-Jane Dobner
Author : Sarah-Jane Dobner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1838400419
A Feeling for Rock by Sarah-Jane Dobner Pdf
A Feeling for Rock is a visceral exploration of rock climbing as a passion and a lifestyle. Through a medley of poetry, cartoons, essays, interviews, weavings, photographs and technical tips, it conveys the experience of being bamboozled by a route, connecting with the landscape or flicking through a guidebook. In addition, the book ventures into ethical regions of gender bias and privilege and questions our relations with each other and the rock. Chapters are headed by different feelings - Love, Curiosity, Astonishment, Pain, Lust, Fear, Wonder, Companionship and so on - which lie at the core of a climbing life. A Feeling for Rock is perfect for dipping into or a more immersive read. Being full of pictures and soft to the touch, it is also rather a beautiful item to hold in your hands. "Rock climbing has shaped my body, my bookshelves, my boyfriends, my community, my employment, my home, my holidays, the clothes I wear, the vehicle I drive, how I spend my money and what happens when I die. I am a product of the rock. The dynamic is visceral, spiritual, intellectual and emotional - no area of me untouched by this curious hobby."
Climbing Fitz Roy, 1968
Yvon Chouinard,Dick Dorworth,Chris Jones,Lito Tejada-Flores
Author : Yvon Chouinard,Dick Dorworth,Chris Jones,Lito Tejada-Flores
Publisher : Patagonia
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781938340185
Climbing Fitz Roy, 1968 by Yvon Chouinard,Dick Dorworth,Chris Jones,Lito Tejada-Flores Pdf
This book features rare, once-thought-lost photos of the 1968 first ascent of the California Route on Cerro Fitz Roy, the third ascent of the mountain. With accompanying retrospective essays. Climbing Fitz Roy,1968, presents photo documentation of the climb, places it in the social and climbing context of the times, and reflects how this momentous trip influenced the lives of those involved, and in a greater context, the lives of so many others.
Meditations on the Peaks
Julius Evola
Author : Julius Evola
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998-02-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781620550380
Meditations on the Peaks by Julius Evola Pdf
Evola articulates the close relationship between the physical rigors of mountain climbing and the ascent of the initiate toward self-transcendence. Julius Evola, a leading exponent of esoteric thought, was also an ardent mountain climber who personally scaled the peaks of the Tyrols, Alps, and Dolomites. For Evola the physical conquest of a mountain, with all the courage, self-transcendence and mental lucidity that it entails, becomes an inseparable and complementary part of spiritual awakening. It is no coincidence that many ancient cultures chose mountains as the abodes of their gods and considered the rigorous ascent of peaks as the task of heroes and initiates. In modern times, which tend to suffocate the heroic with naked self interest, the mountain still forms part of the profound dimension of spirit where the soul finds within itself more than what it thought itself to be. In Meditations on the Peaks, Evola combines recollections of his own experiences with reflections on other inspirational men and women who shared his view of the transcendent greatness of mountains.
Everything I Loved More
Dakota Walz
Author : Dakota Walz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733414606
Everything I Loved More by Dakota Walz Pdf
Everything I Loved More is a roller-coaster collection of true short stories that follow a young man searching for sincere adventure along the tops of freight trains and mountain ranges. The danger can be nausea-inducing while he hangs on a single flexing hold of sandstone hundreds of feet off the ground or attempts to skirt the sexual advances of a meth smoking trucker while hitchhiking through the middle of nowhere. Between the many gripping scenes, his debasing humor acknowledges the foolish romance of it all.Beyond each singular exciting and hapless adventure, an important journey is told between the tales: the journey of a young man attempting to combat mental health issues with a potent dose of unabashed recklessness - and just how well it almost works.
