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Peaks and Lamas: A Classic Book on Mountaineering, Buddhism and Tibet
ISBN: 9781593760588 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Several years ago, Wendell Berry recommended we read Marco Pallis' Peaks and Lamas. He had obtained a copy of this out of print and elusive title, and upon reading it wrote saying, "I have a very high opinion of it." He praised the writing on travel and mountaineering, but he was specially drawn to the writing about Buddhism, the chapters on Tibetan Art, and went on "this is the best book, in my limited reading, in connecting a form of Buddhism with its sustaining culture. It would be useful to anybody interested in what a traditional culture is or might be, and how such a culture...
Several years ago, Wendell Berry recommended we read Marco Pallis' Peaks and Lamas. He had obtained a copy of this out of print and elusive tit...
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99,52 zł |
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Journey to the Top of Africa
ISBN: 9781599268392 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Journey To The Top Of Africa, Patrick Mages tells a fascinating story of a night crossing of the Amboselli Game Reserve in Kenya, a five day climb of the fabled 19,300 foot Mt. Kilimanjaro and a four wheel drive descent into the Ngorongoro Crater, a long-extinct volcano and home to most species of African wildlife. If you've never climbed a mountain this is an ideal book for the armchair mountaineer. Patrick explains what it takes both mentally and physically to ascend the highest mountain in Africa. He laces the entire adventure with humor, fact, fiction, sensitive observations and many...
In Journey To The Top Of Africa, Patrick Mages tells a fascinating story of a night crossing of the Amboselli Game Reserve in Kenya, a five day climb ...
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95,36 zł |
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Journey to the Top of Africa
ISBN: 9781599268408 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Journey To The Top Of Africa, Patrick Mages tells a fascinating story of a night crossing of the Amboselli Game Reserve in Kenya, a five day climb of the fabled 19,300 foot Mt. Kilimanjaro and a four wheel drive descent into the Ngorongoro Crater, a long-extinct volcano and home to most species of African wildlife. If you've never climbed a mountain this is an ideal book for the armchair mountaineer. Patrick explains what it takes both mentally and physically to ascend the highest mountain in Africa. He laces the entire adventure with humor, fact, fiction, sensitive observations and many...
In Journey To The Top Of Africa, Patrick Mages tells a fascinating story of a night crossing of the Amboselli Game Reserve in Kenya, a five day climb ...
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145,66 zł |
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Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters
ISBN: 9780393331967 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1967, seven young men, members of a twelve-man expedition led by twenty-four-year-old Joe Wilcox, were stranded on Alaska's Mount McKinley in a vicious arctic storm. All seven perished on what remains the most tragic expedition in American climbing history. Revisiting the event in the tradition of Norman Maclean's Young Men and Fire, James M. Tabor uncovers elements of controversy, finger-pointing, and cover-up that combine to make this disaster unlike any other.
In 1967, seven young men, members of a twelve-man expedition led by twenty-four-year-old Joe Wilcox, were stranded on Alaska's Mount McKinley in a vic...
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81,85 zł |
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High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2
ISBN: 9781560252009 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this pioneering anthology, Clint Willis presents 75 years of great writing -- from Neil O'Dell to Jon Krakauer -- on the fabled peaks. Here are stories of two British expeditions to Everest in the 1920s; a piece on the 1939 K2 attempt that claimed four climbers' lives; a firsthand account by the Sherpa who reached the summit of Everest in 1953 with Edmund Hillary; the story of the first successful American assault on K2 in 1978; a British photographer's view of the calamitous 1996 storm on Everest; and many more -- a cornucopia of mountaineering thrills for adventurous readers.
In this pioneering anthology, Clint Willis presents 75 years of great writing -- from Neil O'Dell to Jon Krakauer -- on the fabled peaks. Here are st...
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139,81 zł |
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Crack Climbing!
ISBN: 9780762745913 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addictive but usually legal, crack climbing has become hugely popular in recent years. A form of free climbing where the climber ascends a rock wall by jamming hands and feet into cracks and pulling upward, this sport has specific techniques and strategies that are clearly demonstrated and explained in this handy guide. Through an exquisite blend of text, photos, and illustrations, Crack Climbing explores in-depth the wide range of techniques required to successfully climb cracks. Starting with an overview of the unique crack types found at the world s most famous climbing areas, the authors...
Addictive but usually legal, crack climbing has become hugely popular in recent years. A form of free climbing where the climber ascends a rock wall b...
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81,85 zł |
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Where The Mountain Casts Its Shadow : The Personal Costs of Climbing
ISBN: 9780099436089 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Climbers who court danger in the world's highest places risk far more than just their own skins. The author recounts climbers' stories of near-death experiences, and gives a voice to the families and loved ones of Chris Bonnington, Ed Viesturs, Anatoli Boukreev and Alex Lowe, amongst many other famous names.
Climbers who court danger in the world's highest places risk far more than just their own skins. The author recounts climbers' stories of near-death e...
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87,31 zł |
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Sport Climbing +: The Positive Approach to Improve Your Climbing
ISBN: 9781873341865 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presented from a coaching perspective, this rock climbing instructional book helps you learn how to succeed at one of the toughest sports. Containing inspirational photos and funny illustrations, it focuses on the improvements that climbers can make immedi
Presented from a coaching perspective, this rock climbing instructional book helps you learn how to succeed at one of the toughest sports. Containing ...
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101,10 zł |
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Northern England
ISBN: 9781873341711 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although lacking the extravagantly draped grandeur of the spectacular Edges of the Peak District, there are many fine crags and hidden classics here waiting for the diligent explorer. This guidebook will help climbers get the most from this extensive area.
Although lacking the extravagantly draped grandeur of the spectacular Edges of the Peak District, there are many fine crags and hidden classics here w...
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106,18 zł |
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Trad Climbing +
ISBN: 9781873341919 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focuses on modern traditional climbing from a British perspective. This book offers a balance of safety-focused ropework and protection skills with useful tactical and psychological ideas that drive the individual to succeed.
Focuses on modern traditional climbing from a British perspective. This book offers a balance of safety-focused ropework and protection skills with us...
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101,10 zł |
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Glacier Mountaineering: An Illustrated Guide To Glacier Travel And Crevasse Rescue
ISBN: 9780762748624 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Glacier Mountaineering provides the knowledge and skills needed to safely and self-sufficiently navigate over glacier terrain. Hundreds of hilarious and helpful illustrations by Mike Clelland complement the clear and concise text by Andy Tyson. Providing critical instruction for anyone planning to travel over glacier country from the Cascades to the Rockies to Denali this book will guide and entertain readers through glacier anatomy, equipment, route finding, and rescue techniques."
Glacier Mountaineering provides the knowledge and skills needed to safely and self-sufficiently navigate over glacier terrain. Hundreds of hilarious a...
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70,93 zł |
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High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed
ISBN: 9781401309848 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. High Crimes is journalist Michael Kodas's gripping account of life on top of the world--where man is every bit as deadly as Mother Nature. In the years following the publication of Into Thin Air, much has changed on Mount Everest. Among all the books documenting the glorious adventures in mountains around the world, none details how the recent infusion of wealthy climbers is drawing crime to the highest place on the planet. The change is caused both by a tremendous boom in traffic, and a new class of parasitic and predatory adventurer. It's likely that Jon Krakauer...
High Crimes is journalist Michael Kodas's gripping account of life on top of the world--where man is every bit as deadly as Mother Nature.
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136,54 zł |
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Rock Climbing
ISBN: 9780736068024 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rock climbing has been growing in popularity since the 1930s, and it's no wonder. This exciting activity lets you spend time in the outdoors while challenging yourself both physically and mentally and bonding with friends and family. With the increasing availability of a variety of climbing venues, including indoor climbing gyms, it's easier than ever to try rock climbing. Rock Climbing is the perfect book for anyone who wants to develop the skills. Rock Climbing will help you explore one of the world's fastest-growing activities safely and successfully. The experts at... Rock climbing has been growing in popularity since the 1930s, and it's no wonder. This exciting activity lets you spend time in the outdoors while ... |
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82,94 zł |
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The Mammoth Book of On The Edge
ISBN: 9781845299248 / Angielski / Miękka / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Probing the furthest reaches of human daring and endurance, here are some of the great first-hand accounts of extreme mountaineering, from legendary names
Probing the furthest reaches of human daring and endurance, here are some of the great first-hand accounts of extreme mountaineering, from legendary n...
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200,52 zł |
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Climbing Games
ISBN: 9781906095161 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looks at which specific aspects of climbing and methods of coaching are important - together with some aspects of sports science.
Looks at which specific aspects of climbing and methods of coaching are important - together with some aspects of sports science.
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50,63 zł |
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Western Grit
ISBN: 9781873341223 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a climbing guidebook for those interested in the huge variety of cliffs that are scattered up the western side of the Peak District and the Pennines.
This is a climbing guidebook for those interested in the huge variety of cliffs that are scattered up the western side of the Peak District and the Pe...
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111,25 zł |
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In the Shadow of Denali: Life And Death On Alaska's Mt. Mckinley, First Edition
ISBN: 9781599217949 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A classic in the genre of mountain literature--with a new preface by the author Rising more than 20,000 feet into the Alaskan sky is Denali, the tallest mountain in North America. In this collection of exhilarating and stunning narratives, Jonathan Waterman paints a startlingly intimate portrait of the white leviathan and brings to vivid life men and women whose fates have entwined on its sheer icy peak.
A classic in the genre of mountain literature--with a new preface by the author Rising more than 20,000 feet into the Alaskan sky is Denali, the talle...
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70,93 zł |
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The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mount Everest
ISBN: 9781841192116 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An account of the day that Conrad Anker found the body of George Mallory on Mount Everest. Anker and Roberts assess the clues provided by the body, its position and the possibility that Mallory had successfully climbed the immensely difficult Second Step.
An account of the day that Conrad Anker found the body of George Mallory on Mount Everest. Anker and Roberts assess the clues provided by the body, it...
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55,70 zł |
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Halfway to Heaven: My White-Knuckled--And Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High
ISBN: 9781416567004 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fat, forty-four, father of three sons, and facing a vasectomy, Mark Obmascik would never have guessed that his next move would be up a 14,000-foot mountain. But when his twelve-year-old son gets bitten by the climbing bug at summer camp, Obmascik can't resist the opportunity for some high-altitude father-son bonding by hiking a peak together. After their first joint climb, Obmascik, addled by the thin air, decides to keep his head in the clouds and try to scale all fifty-four of Colorado's 14,000-foot mountains, known as the Fourteeners--and to do it in less than one year. The...
Fat, forty-four, father of three sons, and facing a vasectomy, Mark Obmascik would never have guessed that his next move would be up a 14,000-foot mou...
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82,35 zł |
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Maximum Climbing: Mental Training For Peak Performance And Optimal Experience, First Edition
ISBN: 9780762755325 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The definitive resource to brain-training for climbing by an internationally recognized expert As physical as climbing is, it is even more mental. Ultimately, people climb with their minds hands and feet are merely extensions of their thoughts and will. Becoming a master climber requires that you first master your mind. In Maximum Climbing, America's best-selling author on climbing performance presents a climber's guide to the software of the brain one that will prove invaluable whether one's preference is bouldering, sport climbing, traditional climbing, alpine climbing, or mountaineering....
The definitive resource to brain-training for climbing by an internationally recognized expert As physical as climbing is, it is even more mental. Ult...
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98,23 zł |
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