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Darkness and the Azure

Anne Sauvy is the literary grand mistress of mystery, magic and metamorphosis in the mountains.In her new short story collection she takes her themes from the elegant world of french climbing and skiing, the racy competiveness of Chamonix, and the chic milieu parisian business and academe.Though rooted in a mountain tradition these polished and intriguing tales reach far beyond that specialised world.Sauvy's sharp observations mysterious plot lines suggest a synthesis os De Maupassant and Poe, though hints of Saki and Somerset Maugham can also be detected.

Annapurna

Quite simply the greatest mountainering book ever written.Joe Simpson, from the introduction. Since first publication, when it sold 40,000 copies, Annapurna has acquired classic status.It is the enthralling account, by the leader of the french expedition, of the first conquest of Annapurna, at that time, and more than 8,000 meteres, the highest mountain ever climbeb.

Eiger Dreams

In this collection os his writings on mountaineering, Jon Krakauer spirits the reader to the highest reaches of some of the greatest mountain of the world, K2, MT.McKinley and the Eiger, immersing us int he cuture climbing and intriducing the men and women who spend their lives in a quest to conquer these peaks.

Conquistadors of the useless.

Lionel Terray was the central figure in post war climbing in France-an early repeater of the alpine north face, and innovative expeditioner who played a key role during the first ascents of Annapurna (1950) and Makalu (1955). Terray, born in grenoble in 1921, made his first climbs in 1933.During the war he lived in Chamonix, maried the ski instructor Marianne Perrollaz, bought a farm and formed a climbing partnership with Gaston Rébuffat...

Flammes de pierre

Classic Dolomite climbs

Anew topo guide to over one hundred of the finest rock-climbs in the Dolomites (Italy) with grades ranging from 3 to 7.

Into the Wild

In April 1992 Chris McCanddless, a young man from a well-to-do family, hitchniked to Alaska and walk alone into wildderness.He had given all this saving to charity, abandoned his car and possessions, burnt all the money in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself.Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a hunter...

The Death Zone

Ten expeditions were high on Everst preparing in perfect conditions for their summit push.A day later, eight climbers were dead and more died later, victims of one of the most devasting storms to hit Everest.

Storms of silence

By the author of Touching the Void and This Game of Ghosts.