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The Fear Bubble
- Harness Fear and Live Without Limits
- By: Ant Middleton
- Narrated by: Ant Middleton
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
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Ant Middleton is no stranger to fear: as a point man in the Special Forces, he confronted fear on a daily basis, never knowing what lay behind the next corner, or the next closed door....
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nothing good here, move on
- By Andrew on 12-11-19
By: Ant Middleton
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Touching the Void
- By: Joe Simpson
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Daniel Weyman
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Before climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were able to reach the unclimbed West Face of the remote Siula Grande, disaster struck....
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Don't listen whilst driving!
- By Andrew Matthews on 10-06-15
By: Joe Simpson
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Alive
- The Story of the Andes Survivors
- By: Piers Paul Read
- Narrated by: Paul Ansdell
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes....
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couldn’t finish listening to, returned title...
- By BenGee333 on 17-10-19
By: Piers Paul Read
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- My Life’s Journey to the Top of Everest
- By: Ben Fogle, Marina Fogle
- Narrated by: Ben Fogle
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In April 2018, seasoned adventurer Ben Fogle and Olympic cycling gold medallist Victoria Pendleton, along with mountaineer Kenton Cool, took on their most exhausting challenge yet – climbing Everest for the British Red Cross to highlight the environmental challenges mountains face....
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My favourite book ever!
- By Stephen on 20-07-19
By: Ben Fogle, and others
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Cairngorm John
- A Life in Mountain Rescue
- By: John Allen
- Narrated by: David Monteath
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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The Cairngorm mountains in Scotland are a magnet for climbers and walkers. John Allen spent more than thirty years in the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team saving the lost and injured....
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Fascinating story of John’s life in mountain rescue
- By Fast feet on 08-03-24
By: John Allen
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Wild Winter
- In Search of Nature in Scotland's Mountain Landscape
- By: John D. Burns
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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In Wild Winter, John D. Burns, best-selling author of The Last Hillwalker and Bothy Tales, sets out to rediscover Scotland’s mountains, remote places and wildlife in the darkest and stormiest months....
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A light but thought-provoking listen
- By Amazon Customer on 28-03-22
By: John D. Burns
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The Fear Bubble
- Harness Fear and Live Without Limits
- By: Ant Middleton
- Narrated by: Ant Middleton
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Ant Middleton is no stranger to fear: as a point man in the Special Forces, he confronted fear on a daily basis, never knowing what lay behind the next corner, or the next closed door....
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nothing good here, move on
- By Andrew on 12-11-19
By: Ant Middleton
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Touching the Void
- By: Joe Simpson
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Daniel Weyman
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Before climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were able to reach the unclimbed West Face of the remote Siula Grande, disaster struck....
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Don't listen whilst driving!
- By Andrew Matthews on 10-06-15
By: Joe Simpson
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Alive
- The Story of the Andes Survivors
- By: Piers Paul Read
- Narrated by: Paul Ansdell
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes....
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couldn’t finish listening to, returned title...
- By BenGee333 on 17-10-19
By: Piers Paul Read
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- My Life’s Journey to the Top of Everest
- By: Ben Fogle, Marina Fogle
- Narrated by: Ben Fogle
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In April 2018, seasoned adventurer Ben Fogle and Olympic cycling gold medallist Victoria Pendleton, along with mountaineer Kenton Cool, took on their most exhausting challenge yet – climbing Everest for the British Red Cross to highlight the environmental challenges mountains face....
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My favourite book ever!
- By Stephen on 20-07-19
By: Ben Fogle, and others
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Cairngorm John
- A Life in Mountain Rescue
- By: John Allen
- Narrated by: David Monteath
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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The Cairngorm mountains in Scotland are a magnet for climbers and walkers. John Allen spent more than thirty years in the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team saving the lost and injured....
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Fascinating story of John’s life in mountain rescue
- By Fast feet on 08-03-24
By: John Allen
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Wild Winter
- In Search of Nature in Scotland's Mountain Landscape
- By: John D. Burns
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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In Wild Winter, John D. Burns, best-selling author of The Last Hillwalker and Bothy Tales, sets out to rediscover Scotland’s mountains, remote places and wildlife in the darkest and stormiest months....
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A light but thought-provoking listen
- By Amazon Customer on 28-03-22
By: John D. Burns
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Seven Steps from Snowdon to Everest
- A Hill Walker's Journey to the Top of the World
- By: Mark Horrell
- Narrated by: Philip Battley
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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He had been an ordinary hiker who had only read books about mountaineering. When he signed up for an organized trek in Nepal with a group of elderly ladies, little did he know that ten years later he would be attempting to climb the world's highest mountain....
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Funny and educational
- By Anonymous User on 15-07-21
By: Mark Horrell
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Savage Arena
- By: Joe Tasker
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
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Savage Arena is both moving and exciting, an inspirational tale of the adventuring spirit which follows its own path, endlessly seeking new challenges, climbs and difficulties to overcome. It is not reaching the summit which counts, it is the journey to it....
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Gripping stories from the mountains
- By Hayley on 09-10-19
By: Joe Tasker
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Everest 1953
- The Epic Story of the First Ascent
- By: Mick Conefrey
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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On the morning of 2 June 1953, the day of Queen Elizabeth's coronation, the first news ebbed through to the British public of a magnificent achievement: Everest had finally been conquered....
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Man! That story is epic!
- By carrosvoss on 12-09-14
By: Mick Conefrey
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Eiger Dreams
- Ventures Among Men and Mountains
- By: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Philip Franklin
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a stirring, vivid book about one of the most compelling and dangerous of all human pursuits....
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Step by step excitement
- By Amazon Customer on 16-06-19
By: Jon Krakauer
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No Shortcuts to the Top
- Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
- By: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Are you an 8000 m mountain nerd?
- By Emma on 04-02-07
By: Ed Viesturs, and others
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The Next Everest
- Surviving the Mountain's Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again
- By: Jim Davidson
- Narrated by: Jim Davidson, Tim Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet....
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Great book
- By Luke on 13-07-23
By: Jim Davidson
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The Last Blue Mountain
- The Great Karakoram Climbing Tragedy
- By: Ralph Barker
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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The Last Blue Mountain is the heart-rending true story of the 1957 expedition to Mount Haramosh in the Karakoram range in Pakistan. With the summit beyond reach, four young climbers are about to return to camp....
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You feel as if you are doing this journey
- By Allan on 03-01-21
By: Ralph Barker
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Up and About
- The Hard Road to Everest
- By: Doug Scott
- Narrated by: Saethon Williams
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
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At dusk on 24 September 1975, Doug Scott and Dougal Haston became the first Britons to reach the summit of Everest as lead climbers on Chris Bonington's epic expedition to the mountain's immense south-west face....
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what an amazing listen
- By travel18 on 13-12-23
By: Doug Scott
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The Shining Mountain
- By: Peter Boardman
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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"It’s a preposterous plan. Still, if you do get up it, it’ll be the hardest thing that’s been done in the Himalayas," said Chris Bonington when Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker presented him with a plan to tackle the unscaled west wall of Changabang - the Shining Mountain - in 1976....
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Excellent
- By Mrs Susan J Fraser-Smith on 01-10-20
By: Peter Boardman
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To the Edges of the Earth
- 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration
- By: Edward J. Larson
- Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, an entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time, when three expeditions simultaneously raced to the top, bottom, and heights of the world....
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Very thorough and entertaining
- By Amazon Customer on 09-08-21
By: Edward J. Larson
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127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Movie Tie- In)
- By: Aron Ralston
- Narrated by: Aron Ralston
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
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Yet with the new morning came an epiphany: if he could use the rocks vise-like hold to break his arm bones, his blunted pocketknife could serve as a surgeons blade....
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Excellent Story
- By Kate on 19-09-16
By: Aron Ralston
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Bothy Tales
- Footsteps in the Scottish Hills
- By: John D. Burns
- Narrated by: John D. Burns
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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I can move only with the aid of barrels of anti-inflammatory gel, sticking plasters, and real ale anesthetic. Martin and I descend from hours of walking to the small town of Middleton-in-Teesdale....
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Really enjoyable
- By H on 13-04-21
By: John D. Burns
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K2
- Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
- By: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering, with good reason....
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Excellent history of climbing K to
- By LtCol RD Rtrd on 24-01-16
By: Ed Viesturs, and others
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High Risk
- Climbing to Extinction
- By: Brian Hall
- Narrated by: Sam Stafford
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
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Through the seventies and into the mid-eighties, a cohort of young climbers challenged the siege mentality of their seniors on high mountains in the Greater Ranges with fast moving, lightweight expeditions run on a shoestring. Brian Hall was one of them....
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excellent
- By Black Rod on 14-10-22
By: Brian Hall
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Wanderers
- A History of Women Walking
- By: Kerri Andrews, Kathleen Jamie - Foreword by
- Narrated by: Lauren Baldwin
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps....
By: Kerri Andrews, and others
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Ghosts of K2
- By: Mick Conefrey
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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At 28,251 feet, K2 might be almost 800 feet shorter than Everest, but it’s a far harder climb. It will kill you on the way up and the way down....
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The story behind the story - very good
- By Andrew on 04-11-15
By: Mick Conefrey
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Everest the Cruel Way
- By: Joe Tasker
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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On 30 January, 1981 Joe Tasker and Ade Burgess stood at 24,000 feet on the west ridge of Mount Everest. Below them were their companions, some exhausted, some crippled by illness, all virtually incapacitated. Further progress seemed impossible....
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People Will Climb Mountains
- By SocialGoose on 28-09-19
By: Joe Tasker
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The Last Great Mountain
- The First Ascent of Kangchenjunga
- By: Mick Conefrey
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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The Last Great Mountain tells the story of the first ascent of Kangchenjunga the third highest but reputedly the hardest mountain in the world. It was an astonishing achievement for a British team led by Everest veteran Charles Evans....
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Strong book and narration, very poor editing
- By Kderbyshire on 05-09-21
By: Mick Conefrey
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Call-Out
- A Climber's Tales of Mountain Rescue in Scotland
- By: Hamish MacInnes
- Narrated by: James Gibson
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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Call-Out is the definitive collection of tales about early mountain rescue in the Highlands of Scotland from Hamish MacInnes - Everest pioneer and arguably the most famous Scottish mountaineer of the 21st century....
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Terrific book, some horrendous pronunciation !
- By mrs j paterson on 15-10-23
By: Hamish MacInnes
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The Last Hillwalker
- A Sideways Look at Forty Years in Britain's Mountains
- By: John D Burns
- Narrated by: John D Burns
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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John Burns takes you on a journey of more than 40 years from the hills of Britain to adventures in the Rocky Mountains of the US and Canada. This is an audiobook about the people who love mountains and whose journeys amongst them enrich their lives....
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A real account of a journey from novice onwards...
- By Joanne Barton on 06-09-18
By: John D Burns
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Horseback Riding + Rock Climbing for Beginners
- 2 in 1 Adventure Value Set Your Complete Set to Becoming a Professional in Horse Riding and Rock Climbing
- By: Sam A. Connelly
- Narrated by: KC Wayman, Simon Maeder
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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There is a misconception that rock climbing is only for tough, macho guys and adventure junkies. Rock climbing certainly requires a lot of strength and energy, but this can be acquired by anyone willing to learn and dedicate some of their free time to it....
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ignite your passion
- By Anonymous on 17-03-24
By: Sam A. Connelly
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Everest - Himmel, Hölle, Himalaja
- Ein Vortrag
- By: Reinhold Messner
- Narrated by: Reinhold Messner
- Length: 2 hrs
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Folgen Sie Reinhold Messner - zumindest im Geiste - auf den höchsten Berg der Welt...
By: Reinhold Messner
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The Mountain
- My Time on Everest
- By: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts - contributor
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Veteran world-class climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs—the only American to have climbed all fourteen of the world's 8,000-meter peaks—trains his sights on Mount Everest in richly detailed accounts of expeditions that are by turns personal, harrowing, deadly, and inspiring....
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Totally Misleading
- By Peter Page on 20-12-23
By: Ed Viesturs, and others
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The Black Ridge
- Amongst the Cuillin of Skye
- By: Simon Ingram
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 24 hrs and 32 mins
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Rising a kilometre out of the storm-scoured waters around Scotland’s Isle of Skye is a dark battlement of pinnacles and ridgelines: the Cuillin....
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Honest, accurate and passionate.
- By Luke on 25-09-21
By: Simon Ingram