This gripping memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history. No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks recounts Ed Viesturs' stunning quest of climbing's holy grail: to stand atop the...
This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.
One Mountain Thousand Summits explores the untold story of tragedy and True Heroism on K2.
Winner of The National Outdoor Book Award, The Savage Summit is about the life and death of the first women who climbed K2. Though not as tall as Everest, this mountain is far more dangerous. This book shares the true stories of only 6 women who have...
The true story of one man's miraculous survival after a mountaineering mishap high in the Andes of South America.
This is the terrifying story of what really happened that fateful day at the top of the world on May 10, 1996, during what would be the deadliest season in the history of Mount Everest. A breathtaking, step-by-step first-person narrative.
Hailed as a classic by climbers, Yankee Rock & Ice is the most comprehensive and entertaining history ever written about climbing in the northeastern United States.
150 years of misadventure on Mount Washington and the Presidential Range - long regarded as one of the dangerous mountains in North America (over 140 fatalities).
To the Ends of the Earth: Adventures of an Expedition Photographer is the first significant collection of work by leading expedition photographer, Gordon Wiltsie. This is a stunningly beautiful hardcover book to be enjoyed over time; open to any page...