Climbing & Mountaineering

The elegant and dramatic peaks of the Dolomites, one of the most recently designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites, have long epitomised the ideals o...

William Hutchison Murray (1913 - 1996) was one of Scotland's most distinguished climbers in the years before and after the Second World War. As a p...

In a book that is part memoir and part history, David Roberts looks back at his personal relationship to extreme risk and tries to make sense of wh...

They define landscapes, people risk their lives to climb them, and they can even make their own weather. Mountains often serve as geographic featur...

'He is the David Attenborough of mountaineering . . . Bonington's most personal memoir yet' The Times 'This is a compelling tale of fortitude and e...

This book ties together eight common elements of mountaineering and business management that make the crucial difference between success and failur...

In 1909, while dreaming of the Himalaya, Norwegian mountaineer Alf Bonnevie Bryn and a fellow young climber, the Australian George Ingle Finch, set...

In 1874 George Seatree and Stanley Martin made the first ascent of North Climb, which was the first time the main face of Scafell had been ascended...

This hillwalking and photo-location guidebook features stunning mountain photography that provides inspiration and motivation, as well as being stu...

'A book of heart-stopping bravery and endurance' -- Helen Macdonald'A great read incredible adventures and a dramatic new perspective' -- Chris Pa...

'Man, the only  only  good thing about that climb was that you were tied on to the other end of the rope.'Simon McCartney was a cocky young British...

This second edition of the Rockfax Peak Bouldering guidebook maintains the clarity of the original 1998 book, and combines this with the highly-acc...

Everything changed for Sophie Cairns when she was thirty and a party-loving journalist in China. Her father died so suddenly that she arrived at hi...

On the morning of 2 June 1953, the day of Queen Elizabeths coronation, the first news broke that Everest had finally been conquered. Drawing on fir...