Mountains

The first in-depth ecological treatment of one of the most frequently visited National Battlefield parks in the country Designated as a National Ba...

Family Hiking in the Smokies is specifically geared toward taking children on excursions into the Great Smoky Mountains National Parkthe most visit...

Geraint Thomas's inside guide to twenty-five of the greatest cycling climbs in the world.Cycling fans obsess about climbs and big mountains. They l...

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

Unseen Extremes marks a new milestone in Earth observation and Alpine exploration, presenting thirteen of the world''s great mountains in a ma...

Part natural history, part poetry, Mountains of the Heart is full of hidden gems and less traveled parts of the Appalachian Mountains Stretching al...

A book grows rather like a snow crystal. One doesnt write it from start to finish but, in greater or less degree, all at the same time that is why...

Mountaineering in the Swiss Alps presents a selection of classic routes in the main Swiss climbing areas that have forged Switzerland's reputation ...

Mountaintops have long been seen as sacred places, home to gods and dreams. In one climbing year Peter Boardman visited three very different sacre...

Joe Tasker lies, struck down by illness, in a damp, bug-infested room in the Himalaya, wondering if he will be well enough to climb Dunagiri, his f...

Getting acquainted with local flora and fauna is the perfect way to begin to understand the wonder of nature. The natural environment of Southern A...

'All mountaineers develop differently. Some go higher, some try ever-steeper faces and others specialise in a particular range or region. I am incr...

Mountainous regions are home to only ten percent of the worlds population yet host a strikingly disproportionate share of the worlds conflicts. Mou...

Winner, Mountain Literature (Non-Fiction) Award, Banff Mountain Book Festival 2018Nick Bullock is a climber who lives in a small green van, flittin...

''''It''''s a preposterous plan. Still, if you do get up it, it''''ll be the hardest thing that''''s been done in the Himalayas.''''So spoke Chris ...

Twisted Mountains is a collection of short stories set among the summits of England, Scotland and Wales, from Ben Hope to the South Downs. Each tel...

There are few more beautiful places than Scotlands winter mountains. But even when most of the snow has melted, isolated patches can linger well in...

'Proof that epic adventures are open to everyone, even if you've got a day job.' Alastair Humphreys Nicknamed 'Mountain Man' by the Sunday Telegra...

He appeared, without a word, in the tents entrance, covered in ice. He looked like anyone would after spending over twenty-four hours in a hurrican...

'Magnificent ... this book is unlikely to be surpassed' TelegraphThis is the first major history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, culture...

'What a wonderful, honest, refreshing book, full of free-spirited adventure, humour and profound thoughts to provide inspiration to anyone who simp...

Best known for Our Southern Highlanders (1913) and Camping and Woodcraft (1916), Horace Kephart's keen interest in exploring and documenting the gr...

This collection of essays highlights how given Alpine territories in Austria, Italy, and Switzerland are currently facing challenges imposed by mig...

'One of the greatest mountaineering survival stories never told.' The Sunday Times Some mountains are high; some mountains are hard. Few are both....

More than just a travel guide, The Call of the Mountains is a lyrical testament to the power of the Scottish mountains to offer anyone of reasonabl...

'Outstanding Academic Title' Choice, magazine of the Association of College & Research Libraries, American Library Association.Most mountains o...

Wild Light is a stunning panoramic exploration of the Scottish landscape by photographer Craig Aitchison, winner of the inaugural Scottish Landscap...

He was an Austrian immigrant; she came from Tasmania. He grew up beside the Carinthian Alps; she climbed mountains when few women dared. Their hone...

Outwardly, 'Britain's most experienced teenage Alpinist' is a brave young mountaineer. But he's not experienced at all, at least not in the way he ...

Nowhere in the world do people hold mountains in so much regard as in Japan, writes Fukada Ky?ya in the afterword to this book. Mountains have play...

Nowhere in the world do people hold mountains in so much regard as in Japan, writes Fukada Ky?ya in the afterword to this book. Mountains have play...

Shortlisted - Cross British Sports Book Awards 2015. Grand Prize Winner - Banff Mountain Book Festival 2014. 'The wall was the ambition, the style ...

In early 1978, an extraordinary new invention for rock climbers was featured on the BBC television science show Tomorrow's World. It was called the...

Written with fell walkers and other countryside enthusiasts in mind this thoroughly engaging and absorbing book shows that there is much more to t...