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  • 40 Knots and How To Tie Them

    £12.99

    40 Knots and How To Tie Them

    A beautifully presented, practical gift guide to the age-old art of tying knots.

    £12.99
  • After Everest

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    After Everest

    On 29 May 1953 Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary conquered Everest. Before it had claimed the lives of dozens of climbers, including George Leigh Mallory in 1924. Norgay, the descendant of generations of yak herders, was destined to become a llama, but his love for the mountains was that much stronger. He had but one dream, despite seven sherpas dying in 1922, to conquer Everest. For thirty years expeditions had been struggling to scale its fiendishly difficult icy slopes until he and Hillary finally succeeded.

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    £14.99
  • Climbing days

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    Climbing days

    When Dorothy Pilley first began climbing in the 1910s, female mountaineers were seen as a dangerous liability, their achievements ignored, unrecorded or disbelieved. Undeterred, Dorothy proved herself on the vertiginous slopes of Wales, Scotland and the Lake District before tackling rock faces in the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Rockies, Mount Fuji and the Himalayas. Her tireless championing of fellow women climbers and her own trailblazing example helped establish female alpinists as serious mountaineers with impressive records on bravery, skill and endurance. First published in 1935, ‘Climbing Days’ tells a daredevil tale of adventure, near-death slips and rapturous achievement in high places, interleaved with moments highlighting the particular challenges of being a woman in a sport seen as the province of men.

    £12.99
  • Fallen

    £22.00

    Fallen

    Based on diaries, letters, memoirs and thousands of contemporary documents, ‘Fallen’ is both a forensic account of George Mallory’s last expedition to Everest in 1924 and an attempt to get under his skin and separate the man from the myth.

    £22.00
  • Letters from everest

    £18.99

    Letters from everest

    A unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains.

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    £18.99
  • Mountaineering

    £35.00

    Mountaineering

    Mountaineers Books is proud to present the 10th edition of this master guide, commonly referred to as “Freedom.”

    SKU: 9781846894312 Category: Tags: ,
    £35.00
  • The white ladder

    £25.00

    The white ladder

    A riveting journey through the history of mountaineering – before Everest.

    £25.00
  • Without ever reaching the summit

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    Without ever reaching the summit

    Paolo Cognetti marked his 40th birthday with a journey he had always wanted to make: to Dolpo, a remote Himalayan region where Nepal meets Tibet. He took with him two friends, a notebook, mules and guides, and a well-worn copy of ‘The Snow Leopard’. Written in 1978, Matthiessen’s classic was also turning forty, and Cognetti set out to walk in the footsteps of the great adventurer. ‘Without Ever Reaching the Summit’ combines travel journal, secular pilgrimage, literary homage and sublime mountain writing in a short book for readers of Macfarlane, Rebanks and Cognetti’s own bestseller, ‘The Eight Mountains’. An investigation into the author’s physical limits, an ancient mountain culture, and the magnificence of nature, it is an awestruck love letter to one of the most spectacular places on earth.

    £10.99