Kategoria BISAC: Sports & Recreation >> Mountaineering

Scrambles are for people who need to be on a mountain top, but don't need a rope to get there

- An out-of-print guidebook completely redone and brought back by reader demand
- 80 challenging, but non-technical, ascents in Washington, plus 5 traverses

Alpine scrambling is a form of nontechnical mountaineering that falls somewhere between high altitude hiking and rock climbing. Ropes and other aids typically are not needed. This new, fully revised second edition features 85 routes, including 25...

After losing her father and brother to an avalanche on the worlds second highest mountain, Sequoia Schmidt watches a video on social media that is catalyst for a trip that would change her life forever. Join Sequoia in this inspiring autobiographical adventure of her courageous trek as she leaves behind the safe, familiar surroundings of her home and travels across continents to a remote corner of the planet to "respect the mountain and the climbers who came before" her. She discovers a whole new world, both inside and outside of herself, on this Journey of Heart.

New Jack City Sport Climbing Guide is a comprehensive guidebook with route information, topo and area details for New Jack City in the Lucerne Valley, California. Hand drawn topo information over actual crag photos with detailed route descriptions and ratings make navigating NJC as simple as possible.

All route information, topos and descriptions have been reviewed for accuracy by area developers Jack Marshall, Sam Owings, Louie Anderson, Geoff Fullerton and others. Over 60 previously unpublished and undocumented routes on numerous new crags have been included with up to date...

The Next Horizon, the second volume in Chris Bonington's autobiography after I Chose to Climb, picks up his story from 1962 and relates his subsequent adventures as a mountaineer, photographer, journalist and expedition leader alongside eminent climbers including Doug Scott and Don Whillans, throughout an extraordinary decade of adversity, thrill and discovery.

The book opens with a journey to Chile to climb the Central Tower of Paine. Bonington...

Roger Robinson has been Denali mountaineering for over forty years and has worked as a ranger for most of this time. Robinson has climbed Denali, at 20,310 feet, numerous times, leading patrols on the mountain, organizing clean climb efforts on the mountain, meeting the best climbers in the world, and leading rescues that saved lives. Year after year, Robinson has studied the mountain and its climbers, its people, and he has experienced a series of adventures on one of the best-known and formidable mountains in the world, a mountain that for many is the symbol of Alaska, the 49th state....