Climbing & Mountaineering

As a young man with a compelling interest in the great outdoors and the natural world Allister (Ashie) Brebner spent his precious weekends in the 1...

The author of the bestselling Fifty Places series returns with a globe-trotting guide to the best and most beautiful places to rock climb around th...

Eisner Nominated 2021 At sixteen, bivouacked on a mountainside beneath a sky filled with stars, Jean-Marc Rochette has already begun measuring hi...

This is the second WIRED guide from award winning FRCC GUIDES. Detailed coverage of all the worthwhile 'sport' climbing venues in the Lake Distric...

This is the inspirational, motivational story of climber Nick Allen, who went from wheelchair-bound with multiple sclerosis to life in the mountain...

From somewhere out in the vast whiteness of the blizzard we hear a cry for help. Instinctively the three of us turn and head across the mountainsid...

No Place to Fall is Victor Saunders follow up to his Boardman Tasker Prize winning debut book Elusive Summits. Covering three expeditions in Nepal,...

'A full and fascinating portrait of one of the great figures of mountaineering.' Michael PalinAt dusk on 24 September 1975, Doug Scott and Dougal ...

Over 9,000 feet up on the top of Mount Roraima is a twenty-five mile square plateau, at the point where Guyanas border meets Venezuela and Brazil. ...

The mountains are crystal under the blue sky, as we climb up our untouched peak. This is why we climb.In this fast-paced, refreshingly honest accou...

''It was Kongur that dominated everything, and was the focus of our gaze and aspirations.''So thought Chris Bonington upon the Chinese Mountaineeri...

The North Face of the Eiger was long notorious as the most dangerous climb in the Swiss Alps, one that had claimed the lives of numerous mountainee...

The start of a love affair: 'I kicked off my shoes and prepared to climb in stocking feet, aware of an enormous sense of occasion as I laid hands o...

A guidebook to 4 treks in Nepals Annapurna region, including Annapurna Circuit and Annapurna Sanctuary, plus 10 other routes covering the Machhapuc...

''The brain is the most important muscle for climbing.'' - Wolfgang GullichMastermind by climbing legend Jerry Moffatt is a guide to mental trainin...

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. N...

From the Wetterhorn in 1854 to the Matterhorn in 1865 from triumph to tragedy the Alps were conquered in a decade. It was what Reverend W.A.B. Co...

Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature.In the summer of 2012, a team of six climbers set out to attempt the first ascent...

A New York Times and Wall Street Journal Nonfiction Bestseller! What happened that night on Dead Mountain?The mystery of Dead Mountain: In Februar...

A life-affirming journey of healing and endurance, of a mother and a daughter, and of how we keep both love and hope alive.''This uplifting memoir ...

On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroy...

In 1923, a reporter asked George Mallory why he wanted to summit Mount Everest. Because it''s there . Today the question why do this? is in...