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There is but one aim: the summit, the summit of Mount Everest. What starts with a trouble-free trek into the Nepalese highlands explodes into a gripping tale of hardship, peril, and adversity. Pushed beyond their physical and mental limits, climbers drop by the wayside. Their primal instincts for survival battle with their dogged resolve to drag themselves to the top of the world. But the focus remains: battle to the summit, and if successful, somehow get back down again. 

Peaks and Lamas is one of the classic early 20th-century accounts of travelling in the Himalayas on the borders of Tibet. It describes two journeys in the 1930s, one physically active and one more of spiritual investigation. It starts as the title suggests, as a mountaineering adventure, when a group of English climbers set out to climb unconquered peaks in the Himalayas. The audiobook ends with a warning of the deleterious effect of Western culture on traditional art and values and an idealistic polemic on education.

Over the course of a decade, authors Nandini Purandare and Deepa Balsavar conducted a series of interviews with Sherpas from Darjeeling, as well as their family members, descendants, friends, and contemporary climbers. Headstrap weaves a vivid tapestry of this particular Sherpa community, giving them the recognition in mountaineering literature that they deserve.

気力、体力、経験──。己の最適解を見出せ！ 極地探検家による比類なき人生論。 植村直己、長谷川恒男、星野道夫──名だたる冒険家やクライマーが、なぜか同じ年齢で命を落とす。背後にあるのは、歳とともに落ちる体力と上がっていく経験値とのギャップ、すなわち「魔の領域」だ。

Legendary alpinist Barry Blanchard returns to the thin places where weather, will, and luck decide everything—and the consequences echo for years. Blanchard, in his inimitable, heart-pounding, and brutally honest style, continues reminiscing about the life he introduced readers to in The...

Matt Dawson is a six-time world-record-holding endurance and adventure athlete who, within a twelve-month period, climbed the highest peak on every continent, skied to the South Pole, trekked solo and unsupported across the Mojave Desert and Death Valley, and rowed across the Atlantic Ocean. Performing in the planet’s harshest environments, he learned that his greatest obstacles don’t originate in the outside world, but within himself. That life doesn’t have to be a relentless battle against his deepest fears and shortcomings.

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES MONTHLY BESTSELLER One of the 10 Best Books of March, Paste Magazine A deeply reported insider perspective of Alex Honnold’s historic achievement and the culture and history of climbing. “One of the most compelling accounts of a climb and the...

»Die Berge mögen das Ziel sein, aber die wahre Reise findet in uns selbst statt.« Lukas Wörle hat einen Traum: Einen Achttausender ohne künstlichen Sauerstoff und ohne die Unterstützung eines Höhenträgers zu bezwingen und dann vom Gipfel mit dem Gleitschirm ins Tal zu fliegen. Mehr...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A harrowing, moving memoir of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes—and one man’s quest to lead them all home “In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us what it took—and what it...

Get inspired and motivated to hike with the I Love Hiking Affirmation Audiobook. Listen to positive affirmations often to get you to look forward to hiking and help you build the habit of hiking and exercising. Think about how much you enjoy hiking, and plan hikes that bring you joy and fill your soul.

Travel to the top of the world’s highest mountains with this this riveting and uplifting memoir that “is a rare mix of heart-stopping adventure and powerful self-reflection” (Johanna Garton, author of Edge of the Map) by Vanessa O’Brien, record-breaking American British explorer. Long...

“In climbing the Seven Summits, Silvia Vasquez-Lavado did nothing less than take back her own life—one brave step at a time. She will inspire untold numbers of souls with this story, for her victory is a win on behalf of all of us.”—Elizabeth Gilbert This audiobook is read by the author...

北アルプスの最奥部・黒部原流域のフロンティアとして、長く山小屋(三俣山荘、雲ノ平山荘、水晶小屋、湯俣山荘)の経営に携わってきた伊藤正一と、遠山富士弥、遠山林平、鬼窪善一郎、倉繁勝太郎ら…

Reinhold Messner, oltre che grande scalatore, è anche un attento e impegnato comunicatore del mondo dell'alpinismo, consapevole che la grande sfida, oggi, più che nelle altezze e nei record, sta nel rispetto della montagna e nello spirito con cui la si vive. Nella grande impresa, l'anima di un luogo e il confronto sincero, autentico con se stessi contano di più della bandierina su una vetta. Nella rubrica che tiene periodicamente su "La Gazzetta dello Sport", Messner ha raccontato i protagonisti e gioito dei traguardi dell'alpinismo contemporaneo.

Este libro va más allá de las montañas. Más allá de la complejidad de plantearse un reto y de llevarlo hasta el final. Más allá de personas habituadas a la naturaleza y de las que que sueñan con dar ese salto. Donde quiere hurgar el libro es en la necesaria obligación que tenemos de PASAR A LA ACCIÓN.

"The Only Blasphemy" is an essay from mountaineer legend John Long chronicling his solo ascent at Joshua Tree National Park's Half Dome with climber extraordinaire and childhood friend John Bachar.

In "The Green Arch," mountaineer and author John Long offers vivid descriptions of ascending the west face of Tahquitz Rock—a granite, 8,846-foot-tall rock formation located on the high western slope of the San Jacinto mountain range in Southern California—as a teenager with his childhood climbing friends.

Tom Ballard fu "figlio della montagna" nel senso più profondo del termine. Non è un'ardita metafora, ma la sintesi di un rapporto che è stato prima genetico e poi animato da una passione esclusiva, irrefrenabile, assoluta. Era figlio di Alison Hargreaves, "la più forte delle donne alpiniste", secondo Reinhold Messner. E anche una delle più controverse: aveva scalato l'Eiger tre mesi prima di dare alla luce Tom, sollevando un vespaio di polemiche.

Bayern hat die Zugspitze, Hessen die Wasserkuppe, aber hat Hamburg einen höchsten Berg? Ja, und zwar den Hasselbrack, 116,2 Meter hoch! Der Radiomoderator und Journalist Achim Bogdahn hat sich auf eine Reise quer durch Deutschland gemacht und die höchsten Berge aller 16 Bundesländer erklommen. Begleitet wird er auf seinen Wanderungen von bekannten Persönlichkeiten aus der jeweiligen Region, darunter Margot Käßmann, Rocko Schamoni und Manuel Andrack.

Denne bog, skrevet af en dansk bjergbestiger, beretter om menneskets utrættelige stræben efter at komme til tops. Onsdag den 14. december 2005 kl. 22.30 nåede den danske bjergbestiger Søren Gudmann toppen af bjerget Vinson på Antarktis. Det var 193 dage efter at han havde stået på toppen af Mount Everest i Himalaya. På godt seks måneder havde han besteget det højeste bjerg på hvert af jordens syv kontinenter. Og var dermed blevet den første dansker, der havde taget de syv tinder.