Climbing & Mountaineering

By the end of the 18th century Mont Blanc had been climbed and man had begun to fly in balloons. In 1849 a balloonist flew over the Alps and a litt...

K2 is almost 800ft shorter than Everest, yet its a far harder climb. Many great mountaineers became obsessed with reaching its summit, not all of t...

This work tells the story of explorations and ascents in the Scottish Highlands in the days before mountaineering became a popular sport - when Jac...

Will undoubtedly become a classic narrative of this scenically magnificent, legend-rich and geologically unique part of Scotland Cameron McNeish, T...

A Walk in the Clouds: 50 Years Among the Mountains is a heartwarming, inspirational, and evocative collection of memories and short stories from Ke...

Edinburgh. 1898. on the cusp of the modern age. Caleb George Cash mountaineer, geographer, antiquarian and teacher stands at the rocky summit of Ar...

Borrowdale is probably the most beautiful valley in the Lake District and offers the rock climber a huge variety of climbing styles often in stunni...

This is the updated 2nd edition, now in full colour. Scrambles & Easy Climbs in the Lake District is about the appreciation of rock, the exhila...

Nearing his sixth decade as a dedicated climber, William Bill Katra describes himself as not a great climber, but a persistent one. In his memoi...

Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong is the epic true account from Gordon Stainforth of a near-death experience on a mountain in Norway in 1969. In t...

The idea of owning anything except the experience is hubris.Unknown Pleasures is a collection of works by the climber and award-winning author Andy...

The idea of writing a book suddenly dawned on Eric Marks as he walked along the South West Coast Path from Minehead in Somerset to St Just in Cornw...

'Me not belong in the mountains? Why, I couldn't go on living without them! My thoughts, my dreams, my whole life were nothing but the mountains!'I...

The true story of the 1972 Andes plane crash and rescue dramatised in Netflix's Society of the SnowIn October 1972, Nando Parrado and his rugby clu...

WINNER OF THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR PRIZE AT THE CROSS BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2017In the spring of 1901 a teenager stood on top of a hill...

An astonishing true story of mountaineering survivalOn 5 January 2003, former Special Forces soldier Ken Jones was caught in a devastating avalanch...