Climbing Memoir

One of the inspirations for the major motion picture Everest, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley. This is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended the worst single-season death toll in the peak's history.

Dans Instinct de survie, Gabriel Filippi, l'un des plus grands alpinistes du Canada, décrit le parcours stupéfiant qui l'a amené à affronter la beauté sublime de la nature et la cruelle indifférence du destin. Moments forts, exploits remarquables et pertes dévastatrices ponctuent un récit passionnant qui se déroule sur six continents.

A searching, uplifting memoir by the celebrated, groundbreaking climber: a journey of overcoming where the mountain’s highest peaks can only be reached by traversing the dark crevasses of the soul At twenty-seven, when Melissa Arnot Reid accepted a tank of oxygen just short of the summit of...

The bestselling author of No Shortcuts to the Top and K2 chronicles his three attempts to climb the world's tenth-highest and statistically deadliest peak, Annapurna in the Himalaya, while exploring the dramatic and tragic history of others who have made -- or attempted – the ascent, and what...

In The Mountain, veteran world-class climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs—the only American to have climbed all fourteen of the world's 8,000-meter peaks—trains his sights on Mount Everest in richly detailed accounts of expeditions that are by turns personal, harrowing, deadly, and inspiring.

At 28,251 feet, K2 might be almost 800 feet shorter than Everest, but it’s a far harder climb. It will kill you on the way up and the way down. Mick Conefrey guides us through the early story of the legendary mountain and the extraordinary attempts that led up to its first ascent in 1954 - these are tales of riveting drama and unimaginable tragedy.

This is the story of a courageous young woman who grew up in a home headed by a sexual predator and an abused mother who lost her mind when Christine was only 14, disappearing until she was a mother herself. It recounts the secrets and lies that were designed to protect the darkest family secret of all, which had the effect of making the eight children strangers to each other, and then prisoners of the passions that disordered their lives, and set them against each other. Christine's story is filled with intense dramas and the saga of Christine's climb out of the family wreck.

Tom Ballard fu "figlio della montagna" nel senso più profondo del termine. Non è un'ardita metafora, ma la sintesi di un rapporto che è stato prima genetico e poi animato da una passione esclusiva, irrefrenabile, assoluta. Era figlio di Alison Hargreaves, "la più forte delle donne alpiniste", secondo Reinhold Messner. E anche una delle più controverse: aveva scalato l'Eiger tre mesi prima di dare alla luce Tom, sollevando un vespaio di polemiche.

La vita di Simone Moro è un potentissimo sogno verticale. È una vertigine scatenata da una passione assoluta, divorante. Quella passione che è la forza propulsiva indispensabile per realizzare grandi imprese, per andare oltre. Dopo diversi audiolibri dedicati a singoli momenti ed esperienze - dalla tragedia dell'Annapurna alla storica conquista del Nanga Parbat in inverno, alle attività con l'elicottero -, Simone Moro, avendo appena superato il crinale dei 50 anni, sente ora l'esigenza di ripercorrere il proprio cammino di alpinista.

Il rapporto dell'uomo con la montagna è antichissimo. La montagna, spesso ostile e pericolosa, l'ha protetto dai pericoli, gli ha permesso di cogliere il mondo dall'alto, nel suo insieme, di guardare il cielo e sentirsi più vicino all'infinito. È il luogo in cui l'uomo ritrova sé stesso, spingendosi oltre i propri limiti, nella solitudine delle cime, pur in mezzo ai compagni di cordata. Questo audiolibro è un mosaico di storie di eroi che si sono distinti sulle vette più alte del mondo, realizzando imprese eroiche, salvataggi rischiosi.

2018 Colorado Book Awards finalist in Creative Nonfiction, and National Bestseller and Honorable Mention Award Winner in the Outdoor Literature category of the 2017 National Outdoor Book Awards (NOBA) “A beautiful book about family and finding a way to achieve more than you ever thought...

Una ragazza si laurea in giurisprudenza. Ma il suo futuro le appare una nebbia, il presente bloccato. Trova il coraggio di partire e rinascere, tra le montagne. Una storia vera. Eva ha venticinque anni, si è da poco laureata in Giurisprudenza, ma la legge non è la sua passione. Vive a Roma, con la madre e la nonna, malata di Alzheimer. Le giornate sono confuse, offuscate, il futuro è avvolto da una nebbia e il presente pesa. Si è però, di recente, innamorata. Ma non di una persona fatta di carne e di ossa.

Tres homes i una muntanya; tres homes i una aventura impossible. Una expedició al Nepal més indòmit, el dels horitzons més llunyans i els pics més remots, amb escalades inversemblants, descensos intrèpids, reptes, riscos, perills i decisions a vida o mort.

In early 2003, a young Wall Street investment banker named Bo Parfet set out to accomplish something very few had done before - climbing the highest mountain on every continent. He was not a professional climber, but what began as a casual interest would soon become a lifelong passion and in just over four years, Bo would overcome the odds and conquer all of the mountains - Kilimanjaro, Aconcagua, Denali, Vinson Massif, Elbrus, Carstenz Pyramid, Kosciusko, and Everest - with courage, unbridled passion, and determination.

In 1945, Gwen Moffat deserted from her post as dispatch rider in the Army and went to live rough in Wales and Cornwall, climbing and living on practically nothing. She hitch-hiked her way around, travelling from Skye to Chamonix and many places in between, with all her possessions on her back. When the money ran out, she worked as a forester, went winkle-picking on the Isle of Skye and did a stint as an artist's model. And always there were the mountains, drawing her away from a "proper" job.

Quando nel 1961 pubblica Le mie montagne, il suo primo libro, Walter Bonatti ha da rac- contare oltre un decennio di imprese impossibili, trionfi e sofferenze: dalla scalata sullo sperone Walker (a 19 anni) all’odissea sul Pilone Centrale, passando per il Grand Capucin, il Dru e la fatidica notte all’addiaccio sul K2. Se questo libro segnerà una svolta nella sua vita, sarà anche per il riaccendersi delle braci che covavano proprio sotto la memoria di quell’episodio.

One of the world's greatest mountain climbers and adventurers tells her first-hand leadership stories of coming to grips to life literally on the edge—8000 meters up. "Irresistible ... offers amazing timely, practical lessons and authentic inspiration delivered with candor and spunk."...

The first full-length biography of George Ingle Finch - maverick Australian mountaineer, scientist, concert pianist and father of actor Peter Finch. George Ingle Finch, mountaineer, soldier, scientist, rebellious spirit, boy from the bush, was in his day one of the most famous men in the world. In 1922 he stood at the highest point on Everest, a feat not bettered for 30 years. He invented the predecessor to the puffer jacket and pioneered the use of oxygen in climbing.

From the award-winning author of Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon comes an intimate exploration of Alaska's northernmost mountain range with observations on Indigenous cultures, conservation, and intense cross-country travel, all shaped by respect for the land. Follow author Michael Engelhard through tussock-studded tundra for a remarkable tale of bear encounters and white-knuckled river moments, as well as poetic reflections on a vast, untamed landscape.

Dieses Hörbuch vereint folgende drei phantastische wie auch abenteuerliche Erzählungen von Reinhold Messner...