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A Place Among Giants: 22 Seasons at Denali Basecamp
ISBN: 9781962603065 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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89,26 zł |
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High Cols and Deep Canyons: Ordinary Adventures in Extraordinary Places
ISBN: 9781038302885 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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104,96 zł |
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High Cols and Deep Canyons: Ordinary Adventures in Extraordinary Places
ISBN: 9781038302892 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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167,96 zł |
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Woman's Place Is at the Top
ISBN: 9781250403803 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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79,80 zł |
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Staying on Guard: A Spiritual Encounter of Miracles and Gratitude to Discover Life's Purpose
ISBN: 9781636183558 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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125,96 zł |
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Moving the Needle: How An Average Climber Can Do The Hardest Route In The World
ISBN: 9780956428158 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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164,60 zł |
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Secrets of the Snow: Visual Clues to Avalanche and Ski Conditions
ISBN: 9780295981512 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The surface of fallen snow--its contours and texture--can tell the interested observer much about the forces that shaped it and about its stability and what it is likely to do. Will it be good for skiing or for packing as a snowball? Will it slide? Is it dangerous? Secrets of the Snow is an overview of the easily visible aspects of snow in the alpine mountain landscape, serving as a companion volume to the author's Field Guide to Snow Crystals, which examines snow at the microscopic level. Describing visual snow features and textures arising from climate, wind-drift,... The surface of fallen snow--its contours and texture--can tell the interested observer much about the forces that shaped it and about its stability... |
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65,44 zł |
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Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard
ISBN: 9780375754548 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Apsley Cherry-Garrard was one of the youngest members of Robert Falcon Scott's legendary expedition to Antarctica, the last man sent out to meet Captain Scott and his men in February 1912, when they were expected to return victorious any day from the South Pole. He embarked on his own epic journey into the Antarctic winter to collect eggs of the Emperor penguin. It was dark all the time, his teeth shattered, and the tent blew away in the cold. "But we kept our tempers," he wrote, "even with God."
After serving in the First World War, with zealous encouragement from his neighbor George... Apsley Cherry-Garrard was one of the youngest members of Robert Falcon Scott's legendary expedition to Antarctica, the last man sent out to meet Capta...
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79,80 zł |
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
ISBN: 9780380003211 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature head-on at its most furious and inhospitable. And to survive, they were forced to do what would have once been unthinkable ... This is their story -- one of the most astonishing true adventures of the twentieth century. On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original pass... |
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41,96 zł |
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Dying Alive on Rinjani, Lombok, Indonesia
ISBN: 9780595318872 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Having spent the last twenty years as a workaholic, the daughter of the author finally persuaded her father to undertake a three-day climb of the Rinjani mountain in Indonesia. Little did the author know of the challenge ahead as he had envisaged a casual three-day trek. Although there were rumours that climbing Rinjani was a real, dangerous challenge, the expedition left on a rather lighthearted note. The author departed only in a tee shirt and jeans and training shoes choosing not to heed the warnings of the more experienced. Borne in the North of England, he had maintained the belief that...
Having spent the last twenty years as a workaholic, the daughter of the author finally persuaded her father to undertake a three-day climb of the Rinj...
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58,59 zł |
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
ISBN: 9780679457527 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six hours later and 3,000 feet lower, in 70-knot winds and blinding snow, Krakauer collapsed in his tent, freezing, hallucinating from exhaustion and hypoxia, but safe. The following morning, he learned...
When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from ...
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126,00 zł |
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All Elevations Unknown: An Adventure in the Heart of Borneo
ISBN: 9780767907750 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sam Lightner, Jr., combines two tales of adventure, one historic and the other modern-day in his page-turner . . . With its rich sense of place and history, "All Elevations Unknown" offers a surprisingly fresh twist to an adventure-climbing tale. "Climbing "Magazine
In the spring of 1999, armed with little more than a description from a book and a map labeled all elevations unknown, Sam Lightner and his German rock-climbing buddy, Volker, found themselves deep in the jungles of Borneo on a mission to climb a mountain that was only rumored to exist. What little they knew about the mountain... Sam Lightner, Jr., combines two tales of adventure, one historic and the other modern-day in his page-turner . . . With its rich sense of place and hi...
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79,80 zł |
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Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
ISBN: 9780803277830 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A bona fide classic, originally published in 1872, Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada is still exciting reading. It describes the perils and pleasures experienced by Clarence King (1842-1901) while conducting the first geological survey of California in the 1860s. His language was equal to the marvels he found, and here with unfading brilliance are his accounts of scaling such mountains as Tyndall, Shasta, and Whitney. The chapters on the Yosemite Valley and surrounding High Sierras were written while he was surveying the boundaries of a newly designated national park. There are also...
A bona fide classic, originally published in 1872, Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada is still exciting reading. It describes the perils and pleasure...
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79,80 zł |
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Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains
ISBN: 9780805081350 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "One of the best books yet published on climate change . . . The best compact history of the science of global warming I have read."--Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books The world's premier climatologist, Lonnie Thompson has been risking his career and life on the highest and most remote ice caps along the equator, in search of clues to the history of climate change. His most innovative work has taken place on these mountain glaciers, where he collects ice cores that provide detailed information about climate history, reaching back 750,000 years. To... "One of the best books yet published on climate change . . . The best compact history of the science of global warming I have read."--Bill McKib... |
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117,60 zł |
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Making the Climb: What a Novice Climber Learned about Life on Mount Kilimanjaro
ISBN: 9780834123267 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Author Bowling pens a first-person account of his attempt to climb to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro, and the life-changing lessons learned along the way during the nine days it took to reach the peak of Africas tallest mountain and highest free-standing volcano. (Motivation)
Author Bowling pens a first-person account of his attempt to climb to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro, and the life-changing lessons learned along the way ...
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62,96 zł |
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Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
ISBN: 9781400097692 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.
Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and supporters, to an exhibition game in Chile had crashed somewhere deep in the Andes. He soon learned that many were dead or dying among them his own mother and sister. Those who remained were stranded on a lifeless glacier at nearly 12,000 feet above sea level, with no supplies and no means of summoning help. They struggled to endure freezing... In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.
Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he... |
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84,00 zł |
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Medical Problems in High Mountain Environments: A Handbook for Medical Officers
ISBN: 9781410222725 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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61,11 zł |
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Rock Climbing Red Rocks
ISBN: 9781560448976 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Revised and updated this is the best and biggest climbing guide covering Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area near Las Vegas, Nevada.
Revised and updated this is the best and biggest climbing guide covering Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area near Las Vegas, Nevada.
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132,56 zł |
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Rock Climbing the San Luis Valley
ISBN: 9781560449140 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Includes descriptions of more than 400 sport routes in Penitente Canyon, Rock Garden, Witch's Canyon.
Includes descriptions of more than 400 sport routes in Penitente Canyon, Rock Garden, Witch's Canyon.
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63,58 zł |
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Rock Climbing the Flatirons
ISBN: 9781560449188 / Angielski / Miękka / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A perfect companion to Boulder Canyon and recent release, Eldorado Canyon.
A perfect companion to Boulder Canyon and recent release, Eldorado Canyon.
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79,49 zł |
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