Libros de: Literatura de Montaña > Montaña (otros idiomas)

2012 Oneworld

In the only book to tell the real story of Everest 1953, Mick Conefrey reveals that what has gone down in history as a supremely well-planned attempt was in fact beset by crises - both ...

2012 Autoedición

Tal i com ens diu el propi autor, aquest es un relat d'uns anys intensos en els que es va dedicar a fer algunes de les ascensions més clàssiques i difícils que porten al Mont ...

2012 Ediciones Desnivel

L’escriptor i alpinista Edu Sallent ens regala una vegada més un relat a vessar de sentiments i de poesia basat en la vida del vuitmilista Òscar Cadiach. Un recorregut que ens revelarà una trajectòria plena ...

2012 Vertebrate Publishing

Described by the Boardman Tasker judges as "one of the most important mountaineering books to be written for many years", Freedom climbers tells the story of the extraordinary Polish adventurers who emerged from under the ...

2012 Jonathan Cape

A thrilling and moving new novel from the acclaimed author of Touching the void. As her hand slips from his grip, Patrick's life is shattered, forever changed. The sound of gravity is a harrowing, dramatic ...

2011 Alpine Club

2011 marca el centenario de la muerte de Edward Whymper, una de las figuras más importantes de la historia del alpinismo. Su ascenso al Matterhorn en 1865, y la muerte de cuatro miembros de su ...

2011 Vertebrate Publishing

In this brilliant sequel to his award-winning debut Psychovertical, mountaineering stand-up 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 ...

2011 Glénat

Durante un cuarto de siglo, Jean-Michel Asselin fue el testigo privilegiado, como periodista, de los "conquistadores de lo inútil" -escaladores, alpinistas- que se agitan sobre las montañas del mundo. En este caso, nos narra una ...

2011 Crowood

El 20 de Agosto de 1980 Reinhold Messner culminó la primera ascensión de la historia al Everest en solitario y sin oxígeno. El relato de su experiencia queda reflejado en esta obra, en la que ...

2011 Bluemosse

On the 1st february 2010 Alistair Sutcliffe suffered a massive brain haemorrhage. The doctors told his wife to say her last goodbyes as he wouldn't survive the night. He did. In this remarkable story Alistair ...

2011 Grafika

This is a humorous and touching account about an ordinary woman with an extraordinary story. Her life and experiences on the Everestmax expedition will inspire, amuse and probably astonish all those who share her journey. ...

2011 Carreg

When just 25 years of age, Edward Whymper crowned a meteoric climbing career with the first ascent of the last great unclimbed summit in the Alps, the Matterhorn. However, this triumph came with a notoriety ...

2011 Granta

Stretching for over 5500 miles, and containing the highest active volcanoes in the world, the largest salt flat, the highest lake, and peaks rivalled in size only by the Himalayas, the Andes impress by statistics ...

2011 Mainstream Publishing

On the night of 10–11 May 1996, eight climbers perished in what remains the worst disaster in Everest’s history. Following the tragedy, numerous accounts were published, with Jon Krakauer’s Into thin air becoming an international ...

2011 Pen & Sword Discovery

This is a fascinating study of the history of Everest climbs describing in some detail the struggle to conquer the mountain and the advances in scientific knowledge that made it possible. Expeditions to the Himalaya ...

2011 Vertebrate Publishing

Norway, 1965. A team of young climbers from the north of England camp at the bottom of the tallest vertical rock face in Europe – the Troll Wall. No one has dared attempt this gigantic ...

2011 Chatto & Windus

Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world’s mountains – holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated beyond the central Himalayas, it is claimed by myth to be the source of the universe created ...

2011 Alpine Avenue

Ninguna montaña del mundo es tan fascinante como el Matterhorn. Desde la primera dramática ascensión de 1865, el drama y los mitos han alimentado el interés y fama de la montaña. Cada año, miles de ...

2011 PAN

El 9 de mayo de 1996, cinco expediciones luchaban por la conquista de la cima del monte Everest. Las condiciones parecían perfectas pero 24 horas después una tormenta cegadora junto con una inexplicable confluencia de ...

2011 Bodley Head

If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles, it ended as a mission of regeneration for ...