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Challenge of K2: a History of the Savage Mountain
ISBN: 9781848842137 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. K2 is a legend - one of the most demanding mountaineering challenges in the world and one of the most treacherous. Extreme, unpredictable weather and the acutely difficult climbing conditions test the technique, endurance and psychological strength of the most experienced mountaineers to the limit and often beyond. Many of the men and women who have sought to reach the summit have failed, often with tragic consequences - over 70 of them have died or disappeared. Yet this, the second highest mountain on Earth, continues to exercise for the world s top mountaineers a special, and all too often...
K2 is a legend - one of the most demanding mountaineering challenges in the world and one of the most treacherous. Extreme, unpredictable weather and ...
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99,42 zł |
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The Mountains of England and Wales: Vol 2 England
ISBN: 9781852845896 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book sets out the 253 mountains in England which reach the height of 2000ft, including the most recently designated summits of Honister Crag & Birks Fell. Illustrated with the authors' sketches and maps, the walker is taken to England's summits in a selection of 58 walks.
This book sets out the 253 mountains in England which reach the height of 2000ft, including the most recently designated summits of Honister Crag & Bi...
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84,30 zł |
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Crystal Horizon: Everest: The first Solo Ascent
ISBN: 9781861261762 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On 20 August 1980 Reinhold Messner reached the summit of Everest - alone and without the use of oxygen. This is an account of his extraordinary achievement. Messner describes his journey through Tibet and identifies with mountaineers who went before him, such as Mallory, Irvine and Wilson.
On 20 August 1980 Reinhold Messner reached the summit of Everest - alone and without the use of oxygen. This is an account of his extraordinary achiev...
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84,50 zł |
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France: Languedoc-Roussillon: Chaulet, Mazet, Actinadas, Le Cirque Des Gens, Les Branches Gorge Du Tarn, Gorge De La Jonte, Le Boffi, Cantobre, Thaurac, Hortus Claret, Russan, Seynes, Mont Gaussier, M
ISBN: 9781873341629 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part of the "Rockfax France" series, this title covers the extensive and fertile climbing area west of the author's previous guide to Haute Provence. Starting in the family-friendly summer holiday destination of the Ardeche, it promises a tour of the very best crags in the region.
Part of the "Rockfax France" series, this title covers the extensive and fertile climbing area west of the author's previous guide to Haute Provence. ...
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124,09 zł |
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Spain: Costa Blanca
ISBN: 9781873341674 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Costa Blanca has long been the best known Hot Rock winter sun venue for climbers. It has easy access, loads of quality accommodation, and an amazing amount of fantastic climbing on everything from roadside boulders to magnificent mountains. This edition features 4,000 routes and a complete new set of crag shots along with action pictures.
The Costa Blanca has long been the best known Hot Rock winter sun venue for climbers. It has easy access, loads of quality accommodation, and an amazi...
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183,76 zł |
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Fontainebleau Fun Bloc: Escalade - Bouldering
ISBN: 9781873665152 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Fun Bloc' is a new guidebook to the concept of Fountainebleau. It outlines the best 24 areas suitable for mixed level groups, as well as providing location maps, boulder plans, photo topos and action photographs.
'Fun Bloc' is a new guidebook to the concept of Fountainebleau. It outlines the best 24 areas suitable for mixed level groups, as well as providing lo...
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179,04 zł |
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Classic Rock: Great British rock climbs
ISBN: 9781898573708 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents a compilation of the best rock climbs in Great Britain. This book comprises 55 chapters by acclaimed climber/writers who describe over 80 of the finest classic rock climbs in Britain. It features the selection from the five main climbing areas: The Peak and Pennines; North Wales; South West England; The Lake District and Scotland.
Presents a compilation of the best rock climbs in Great Britain. This book comprises 55 chapters by acclaimed climber/writers who describe over 80 of ...
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198,68 zł |
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Scrambles & Easy Climbs in the Lake District
ISBN: 9781902017051 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Helps explore the Lake District's rocky places. This book offers advice on how to get started and how to progress; routes that are safe in the wet, and those that should be saved for perfect conditions; and, where to eat, drink and sleep between the ascents.
Helps explore the Lake District's rocky places. This book offers advice on how to get started and how to progress; routes that are safe in the wet, an...
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64,41 zł |
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How to Climb Harder: A Practical Manual, Essential Knowledge for Rock Climbers of All Abilities
ISBN: 9781906095116 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a book for every climber keen to improve their climbing. It includes a progressive series of exercises from simple to more complex movements to practice at your local climbing wall, crag, boulders or at home to improve all aspects of your climbing. The book also offers safety advice.
This is a book for every climber keen to improve their climbing. It includes a progressive series of exercises from simple to more complex movements t...
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79,53 zł |
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Alpine Mountaineering: Essential Knowledge for Budding Alpinists
ISBN: 9781906095307 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers an introduction to Alpine mountaineering. Suitable for those who are planning their first trip to the Alps, this book includes chapters such as: Going Alpine; About the Alps; Objective Dangers; Weather; Kit; Technical Equipment; Protecting Yourself; Speed vs Security; Navigation; Rescue; Planning an Alpine Trip; and, Glacier Travel.
Offers an introduction to Alpine mountaineering. Suitable for those who are planning their first trip to the Alps, this book includes chapters such as...
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99,42 zł |
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Ron Fawcett - Rock Athlete: The story of a climbing legend
ISBN: 9781906148300 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2010 Boardman Tasker Prize. Ron Fawcett is a natural-born climber. In 1969, while still at school in his native Yorkshire, he tied into a climbing rope for the first time and was instantly hooked. From that moment on, it seemed nothing else in his life mattered nearly as much as his next vertical fix. In this book, he tells his story.
Winner of the 2010 Boardman Tasker Prize. Ron Fawcett is a natural-born climber. In 1969, while still at school in his native Yorkshire, he tied into ...
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64,61 zł |
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Cold Wars: Climbing the fine line between risk and reality
ISBN: 9781906148461 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2012 Boardman Tasker Prize. Andy Kirkpatrick has achieved his life's ambition to become one of the world's leading climbers. Pushing himself to new extremes, he embarks on his toughest climbs yet in the depths of winter, but the savagery and danger of these encounters comes at huge personal cost.
Winner of the 2012 Boardman Tasker Prize. Andy Kirkpatrick has achieved his life's ambition to become one of the world's leading climbers. Pushing him...
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64,61 zł |
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Deep Play: Climbing the world's most dangerous routes
ISBN: 9781906148584 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 1997 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, Paul Pritchard's Deep Play is a unique, stylish and timeless commentary reflecting the pressures and rewards of climbing some of the world's hardest and most challenging rock climbs. It is a unique first-hand account of what many consider to be the last great era in British climbing.
Winner of the 1997 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, Paul Pritchard's Deep Play is a unique, stylish and timeless commentary reflecting t...
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64,61 zł |
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Mont Blanc: The Finest Routes
ISBN: 9781906148645 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mont Blanc - The Finest Routes is a collection of the 100 must-do climbing routes in the Mont Blanc Massif. Author Philippe Batoux gives a comprehensive account of each route, outlining its history and giving all the technical information needed to climb it. Each route has written descriptions, photo diagrams and topos, and stunning photos.
Mont Blanc - The Finest Routes is a collection of the 100 must-do climbing routes in the Mont Blanc Massif. Author Philippe Batoux gives a comprehen...
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174,06 zł |
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Scottish Sport Climbs: Scottish Mountaineering Club Climbers' Guide
ISBN: 9781907233159 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by 18 of the leading Scottish sport climbers, this sport climbing guide for Scotland includes 1300 routes, from grades 3 to 9a spread across over 100 crags from the Central Belt to Shetland and Arisaig to Aberdeen. It is illustrated with action photos for each main crag, maps and photo diagrams, and a colour-coded route grading system.
Written by 18 of the leading Scottish sport climbers, this sport climbing guide for Scotland includes 1300 routes, from grades 3 to 9a spread across o...
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174,06 zł |
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Scotland's Mountains Before the Mountaineers
ISBN: 9781908373298 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Outdoor Writers GUld Award for ExcellenceIn this new book on pre-mountaineering ascents and near ascents in the Highlands, we have at last a work which does justice to those who lived and worked, travelled and fought in the Highlands before Walter Scott. PROF. BRUCE LENMANMarvelous account of mountaineering's prehistory... as coulourful as it is thought provoking
Winner of the Outdoor Writers GUld Award for ExcellenceIn this new book on pre-mountaineering ascents and near ascents i...
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49,69 zł |
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High Summits: 370 Famous Peak First Ascents and Other Significant Events in Mountaineering History
ISBN: 9781936449354 / Angielski / Twarda / 716 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Rich and Compelling History of Mountaineering .At Your Fingertips. High Summits is the result of over 30 years of research into the fascinating world of international mountaineering. An essential guide to mountaineering history, this year-by-year account spans all seven continents and dates from 450 B.C. through 2011. In it you ll find everything from the monumental to the hard-to-find-trivia including: The most significant 370 Peak First Ascents as well as over 600 other types of first ascents on mountain faces and ridges. 345 detailed listings of major advancements in mountaineering gear,...
A Rich and Compelling History of Mountaineering .At Your Fingertips. High Summits is the result of over 30 years of research into the fascinating worl...
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303,68 zł |
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The Trek: Adventure and Enlightenment on a Climb to the Summit of Kala Patthar, Above Mount Everest Base Camp in the Himalayas
ISBN: 9780989766111 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Trek takes the fabulously funny and enjoyable book "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson to a much higher altitude. The Trek tells the story of David Schachne's adventure in November, 2004, attempting to summit Kala Patthar, a mountain which towers above Everest Base Camp in the Himalayas. At 18,192 feet above sea level, the summit of Kala Patthar offers successful climbers one of the most amazing views of Mount Everest (29,035 feet) without having to put your life at risk by entering the Khumbu Icefall, or by climbing Mount Lhotse or Mount Nuptse. Raised in Brooklyn, NY, Schachne loved...
The Trek takes the fabulously funny and enjoyable book "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson to a much higher altitude. The Trek tells the story of Dav...
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58,00 zł |
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On the Nose: A Lifelong Obsession with Yosemite's Most Iconic Climb
ISBN: 9781493024988 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Hans Florine embodies the genius of 'and'--collaborative and competitive, fast and safe, audacious and disciplined, visionary and quantitative. The themes that run through Florine's 101 ascents of Yosemite's most iconic route can benefit people who will never climb a rock, indeed anyone inspired by the idea of a passionate, lifelong quest of any type." --Jim Collins, author of Good to Great Hans Florine is a big-wall climbing legend in his own time. He holds the speed record on the Nose route of El Capitan, a 3,000-foot granite cliff in Yosemite Valley that s considered the Everest of the...
"Hans Florine embodies the genius of 'and'--collaborative and competitive, fast and safe, audacious and disciplined, visionary and quantitative. The t...
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100,89 zł |
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McDowell Rock: A Climber's Guide
ISBN: 9780692679692 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. McDowell Rock - A Climber's Guide is the authoritative source on rock climbing in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve of Scottsdale, Arizona. Erik Filsinger has been the key contact between the City and the rock climbing community. He served on the City's Preserve Commission and the Board of the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy. In those positions he assisted the City in developing their rock climbing plan. In McDowell Rock, Erik Filsinger and Cheryl Beaver lay out the key elements of rock climbing in the McDowells - parking lots, trails, climber access routes, overviews of each crag, and the routes...
McDowell Rock - A Climber's Guide is the authoritative source on rock climbing in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve of Scottsdale, Arizona. Erik Filsinger...
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156,28 zł |