Mountains

'When a man is conscious of the urge to explore, not all the arduous journeyings, the troubles that will beset him and the lack of material gains f...

In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest. They climbed from the south, from Nepal, via the Khumbu Glacier a ...

To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.First published in 1915, Travels in Alaska is the last boo...

''Even the most casual reader among you will by now have worked out that the whole thing is little more than a delightful ruse for having a very go...

Selected Climbs: Mont Blanc & the Aiguilles Rouges presents the best rock climbs in the Mont Blanc range and on the Aiguilles Rouges, from F4 t...

In Mont Blanc Lines, photographer and alpinist Alex Buisse has travelled the Mont Blanc massif to capture images of all the major mountain faces an...

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

When a man plants a tree, he plants himself. Every root is an anchor, over which he rests with grateful interest, and becomes sufficiently calm to ...

FROM THE WINNER OF THE PRIX GONCOURT 2023Described as 'unforgettable' by the Mail on Sunday, A Hundred Million Years and a Day is a pocket-sized ep...

Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra Nevada mountains during the summer of 1973. He returned from that encounter a changed man, awed...

A cultural and literary history of mountains in classical antiquityThe mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor in the histo...

The reason I travel and explore the outdoors is simple, writes Johnny Molloy, the world is a beautiful place! And Molloy would know: he has backpac...

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