Author : Zell Miller
Publisher : Cherokee Pub
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : 0877971161
The Mountains Within Me
Zell Miller
The Mountains Within
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In The Mountains
Ned Morgan
Author : Ned Morgan
Publisher : Aster
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1783253223
In The Mountains by Ned Morgan Pdf
An exploration of the health and wellbeing benefits of spending time at altitude. Mountains have forever been steeped in poetry, symbolism and mystery, inspiring everyone from the explorers who wish to scale every peak to those who are more interested in the journey or the view. These rooftops of the world encourage determination, resilience, fitness of the body, ingenuity, creativity and awe - all of which are, in their own ways, "good for us". As the world's populations become increasingly urbanised, the need for a healthy relationship with nature is becoming more and more important, both from a psychological wellbeing and physical health point of view. In the Mountains is an awe-inspiring book that takes us on a journey to reveal the health and wellbeing benefits of spending time at altitude, and also teaches how we can be inspired by the research to bring elements of a mountain lifestyle into our everyday, increasingly urbanized, lives.
Into the Mountains
Maggie Stier,Ron McAdow
Author : Maggie Stier,Ron McAdow
Publisher : Appalachian Mountain Club
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89081205643
Into the Mountains by Maggie Stier,Ron McAdow Pdf
The armchair dreamer's companion -- a graceful and fascinating history of New England's fifteen most celebrated mountains, with information on people, places legends, and lore.
Men for the Mountains
Sid Marty
Author : Sid Marty
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780771056727
Men for the Mountains by Sid Marty Pdf
As a park warden in the national parks of Canada's Rocky Mountains, Sid Marty came to know that beautiful and treacherous landscape as few men or women do. He was a mountain climber, rescue team member, firefighter, wildlife custodian, and adviser to tourists, adventurers, and people passing through. At all times, he was an acute observer of human and animal behaviour. In these pages he records with wry wit and bitter insight true stories of heroism and folly drawn from life in the high country. Marty writes vividly about a land and a way of life that are increasingly endangered. The visceral energy of his prose compels attention. This is a compulsive, alarming, and often hilarious read.
A Path into the Mountains
Caleb Swift Carter
Author : Caleb Swift Carter
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824893095
A Path into the Mountains by Caleb Swift Carter Pdf
Shugendō has been an object of fascination among scholars and the general public, yet its historical development remains an enigma. This book offers a provocative reexamination of the social, economic, and spiritual terrain from which this mountain religious system arose. Caleb Carter traces Shugendō through the mountains of Togakushi (Nagano Prefecture), while situating it within the religious landscape of medieval and early modern Japan. His is the first major study to view Shugendō as a self-conscious religious system—something that was historically emergent but conceptually distinct from the prevailing Buddhist orders of medieval Japan. Beyond Shugendō, his work rethinks a range of issues in the history of Japanese religions, including exclusionary policies toward women, the formation of Shintō, and religion at the social and geographical margins of the Japanese archipelago. Carter takes a new tack in the study of religions by tracking three recurrent and intersecting elements—institution, ritual, and narrative. Examination of origin accounts, temple records, gazetteers, and iconography from Togakushi demonstrates how practitioners implemented storytelling, new rituals and festivals, and institutional measures to merge Shugendō with their mountain’s culture while establishing social legitimacy and economic security. Indicative of early modern trends, the case of Mount Togakushi reveals how Shugendō moved from a patchwork of regional communities into a translocal system of national scope, eventually becoming Japan’s signature mountain religion.
Mountains in My Heart
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
Author : Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781594858574
Mountains in My Heart by Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner Pdf
• First woman—and only the fourth climber ever—to summit all fourteen 8,000-meter peaks without supplemental oxygen or high-altitude porters • Though the two climbers are friends, Kaltenbrunner’s path to high places has been very different from Edurne Pasaban’s record-breaking feat • Positive, uplifting account of a remarkable athlete Effusive, charismatic, tough, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner is one of the world’s most successful high-altitude mountaineers and the first woman to climb all fourteen 8,000-meter peaks without supplemental oxygen——and she also eschews high-altitude porters. Mountains in My Heart covers her early years learning to climb in Austria, her personal life, her training as an oncology nurse, and her ever-present passion for mountains, especially the Himalaya. Her love of being in the mountains shines through in her writing: For Gerlinde the important thing was not the race to be the first woman to climb the 8,000-meter peaks, but rather to experience the mountains and climb them in her self-sufficient style. Self-sufficiency did not, however, mean climbing without her husband, Ralf Dujmovits; in 2009, Lhotse became her twelfth and his fourteenth 8,000-meter peak! Kaltenbrunner shares the challenges, dangers, and euphoria of her high-altitude climbs, detailing medical emergencies and her own feelings about being high in the mountains. Her writing is honest, captivating, and unrestrained.
Mountains of the Mind
Robert Macfarlane
Author : Robert Macfarlane
Publisher : Granta
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781847081575
Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane Pdf
WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride. In this ground-breaking, classic work, Robert Macfarlane takes us up into the mountains: to experience their shattering beauty, the fear and risk of adventure, and to explore the strange impulses that have for centuries lead us to the world's highest places.
Back Over the Mountains
Jane Marshall
Author : Jane Marshall
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9789384544379
Back Over the Mountains by Jane Marshall Pdf
A narrative with a deep philosophical insights hidden in every nook and corner of every sentence… Back Over the Mountains is the true story of unexpected friendship between a Buddhist monk seeking to establish himself far from his homeland, and a writer clinging to the remnants of fading borderland culture. When she unexpectedly meets exiled Tibetan Buddhist monk Kushok Lobsang Dhamchoe, she begins a journey that not only leads her to remote corners of the Himalayas, but into the realm of memory, loss, and acceptance. From the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet to the secret valley of Tsum, Nepal, Marshall first follows in the footsteps of her teacher before finding the courage to seek out her own spiritual path. While trying to mend Kushok’s broken past, she discovers she’s healing her own, too. Jane Marshall has created a beautiful narrative with deep philosophical insights hidden in every nook and corner of every sentence. Mountain pebbles, people, wind, and longing are all carefully knitted together to form an inspirational memoir of her travels to Nepal in search for inner peace. This book comes across as transparent, emotional, and enlightening. It is bound to resonate and act as a brightly lit pathway for the ever-searching, travelling soul.
Navigation in the Mountains
Carlo Forte
Author : Carlo Forte
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780954151188
Navigation in the Mountains by Carlo Forte Pdf
Navigation in the Mountains - The Definitive Guide for Hill Walkers, Mountaineers & Leaders is the official navigation book for all Mountain Training schemes. Packed with essential information and techniques, this handbook is split into sections including: all aspects of mountain navigation; the additional techniques required in winter; adaptations in navigation techniques for use overseas; the use of GPS; digital mapping; and the teaching of navigation. This book is the reference tool for all walkers who wish to maintain or improve their navigation techniques as well as containing specific ideas for anyone wanting to help teach and lead others. Its functional design with easy reference colour coded pages, striking illustrations that complement the text and inspiring photographs make this book an indispensable guide. It is the fourth in a series of manuals and has been written and compiled by Carlo Forte, the Chief Instructor at the National Mountain Centre, Plas y Brenin, and it is published by Mountain Training UK.
The Mountains Within
Ram Thakur
Author : Ram Thakur
Publisher : BFC Publications
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789355090829
The Mountains Within by Ram Thakur Pdf
The story of ‘The Mountains Within’ is prototypical of the people who grew into first-ever consciousness of their own identities from the obscurity of innumerable socio-cultural microcosms that had existed at the subterranean level for centuries and millennia over the length and breadth of India before the Independence. The story moves from present to past to future with the main protagonist’s grand-daughter setting out to reconstruct the life story of her grand-father she admires. The story is contemporary and relevant to a whole lot of Indians who finished their journeys of existence at the beginning of the new millennium. As they sit back, vacuous and dazed after the ‘retirement’, they cannot help ruminating over the past vis-à-vis their own lives. No matter how objective their self-appraisal, they cannot escape being dubbed a generation of ineffectual crusaders who fell from grace by succumbing to hypocrisies both personal and collective. They cannot exonerate themselves from the stigma of making a mess of a newly liberated country through moral turpitude and lack of individual will. They cannot face up to the younger generation of today and convince them they had no role to play in the fabrication of myths such ‘Mera Bharat Mahaan’. There are no Nuremberg Trials for the crimes we commit within our minds and souls. However, if history is continuity between the past and the present, then ‘The Mountains Within’ does leave some doors open for Nuremberg Trials of the mind and the souls for these Indians.
The Mountain Is You
Brianna Wiest
Author : Brianna Wiest
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : SELF-HELP
ISBN : 1949759229
The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest Pdf
THIS IS A BOOK ABOUT SELF-SABOTAGE. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it-for good. Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile. But by extracting crucial insight from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence by better understanding our brains and bodies, releasing past experiences at a cellular level, and learning to act as our highest potential future selves, we can step out of our own way and into our potential. For centuries, the mountain has been used as a metaphor for the big challenges we face, especially ones that seem impossible to overcome. To scale our mountains, we actually have to do the deep internal work of excavating trauma, building resilience, and adjusting how we show up for the climb. In the end, it is not the mountain we master, but ourselves.
Rain in the Mountains
Ruskin Bond
Author : Ruskin Bond
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184754469
Rain in the Mountains by Ruskin Bond Pdf
Rain in the Mountains brings together some of Ruskin Bond’s most beautiful works from his years spent in the foothills of the Himalayas in the town of Mussoorie. Through vivid images and lucid writing, Bond evokes the everyday sights and sounds, and captures the essence of mountain life. The musings on his natural habitat, in both prose and poetry, offer a view of that simple and affable world. Some of his writings featured in the book are ‘Once Upon a Mountain Time’, ‘Sounds I Like to Hear’, ‘How Far Is the River’ and ‘After the Monsoon’. Rain in the Mountains will transport the reader into the quiet world of the mountains, lit with an eternal charm.
Minarets in the Mountains
Tharik Hussain
Author : Tharik Hussain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1784778281
Minarets in the Mountains by Tharik Hussain Pdf
Travel writing about Muslim Europe. A journey around Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans, home to the largest indigenous Muslim population in Europe, following the footsteps of Evliya Celebi through Serbia, Bosnia, Albania, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro. A book that begins to decolonise European history.
Lost in the Mountains
Tony Monte
Author : Tony Monte
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781491730126
Lost in the Mountains by Tony Monte Pdf
In 1828, Shawn Skip Sullivan is somewhere around fourteen years old when the Indians attack his familys homestead and kill both his mother and father. Warned by the barking dogs, Skips mother forced him to hide in the cabins false floor. Though Skip is unharmed, his journey is just beginning. After burying his parents, Skip knows he cant stay at the cabin alone forever. He remembers that theres a small settlement with a trading post about thirty miles away, but he hasnt been there since he was seven years old. With just a small backpack filled with the items the Indians didnt scavenge, Skips sets off for the nearest civilization. He soon finds himself alone and lost in the mountainsuntil he meets an old trapper called Big Jim, who teaches him how to survive. Together, the two navigate the wilderness while fending off attackers both human and beast. Skip comes of an age while learning tough lessons about the world and the nature around him.
Woman Running in the Mountains
Yuko Tsushima
Author : Yuko Tsushima
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681375977
Woman Running in the Mountains by Yuko Tsushima Pdf
Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master. Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko Odaka departs on foot for the hospital to give birth to a baby boy. Her pregnancy, the result of a brief affair with a married man, is a source of sorrow and shame to her abusive parents. For Takiko, however, it is a cause for reverie. Her baby, she imagines, will be hers and hers alone, a challenge that she also hopes will free her. Takiko’s first year as a mother is filled with the intense bodily pleasures and pains that come from caring for a newborn. At first she seeks refuge in the company of other women—in the hospital, in her son’s nursery—but as the baby grows, her life becomes less circumscribed as she explores Tokyo, then ventures beyond the city into the countryside, toward a mountain that captures her imagination and desire for a wilder freedom.