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The Everest Years: The challenge of the world’s highest mountain

Sir Chris Bonington

Bonington chronicles four expeditions to the Himalaya and Everest, including the 1975 South-West Face expedition on which he was leader and on which Doug Scott and Dougal Haston became the…

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The Next Horizon: From the Eiger to the South Face of Annapurna

Sir Chris Bonington

The Next Horizon, the second volume in Chris Bonington’s autobiography, relates his adventures from 1962 as a mountaineer, journalist and expedition leader throughout a decade of discovery.

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Ascent

Sir Chris Bonington

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I Chose To Climb

Sir Chris Bonington

The early climbing years of Britain’s greatest living mountaineer, from his schooldays to his ascent of the Eiger in 1962.

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Quest for Adventure: Remarkable feats of exploration and adventure

Chris Bonington

Quest for Adventure is a collection of stories written by Sir Chris Bonington looking at the adventurous impulse which has driven men and women to achieve the impossible in the…

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Annapurna South Face

Sir Chris Bonington, C.B.E.

The true story is told of Chris Bonington and his now-legendary team of mountaineers, who were the first climbers to tackle the south face of Nepal’s Annapurna: 12,000 feet of…

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Chris Bonington Mountaineer: A lifetime of climbing the great mountains of the world

Sir Chris Bonington

Chris Bonington Mountaineer is a photographic autobiography, documenting over sixty years of climbing the world’s most beautiful and challenging mountains. In this 2016 edition, which features over 500 photographs, we…

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Everest the Cruel Way: The audacious winter attempt of the West Ridge

Joe Tasker

Everest the Cruel Way is Tasker’s story of an attempt to climb the highest mountain on earth, without supplemental oxygen, and in winter. Tasker’s epic account vividly describes experiences that…

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On Thin Ice: Alpine Climbs in the Americas, Asia and the Himalaya

Mick Fowler

The second volume of Mick Fowler’s autobiography, On Thin Ice covers his alpine climbs in the Americas and Asia, and the Himalayan challenges attempted while holding down a nine-to-five job…

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Everest the Cruel Way: The audacious winter attempt of the West Ridge

Joe Tasker

Everest the Cruel Way is Tasker’s story of an attempt to climb the highest mountain on earth, without supplemental oxygen, and in winter. Tasker’s epic account vividly describes experiences that…

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Tibet’s Secret Mountain: The Triumph of Sepu Kangri

Sir Chris Bonington,Charles Clarke

For Chris Bonington and Charles Clarke, few mountains were more alluring than Tibet’s Sepu Kangri. Tibet’s Secret Mountain is their poignant account of their two expeditions there, and the people…

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Sacred Summits: Kangchenjunga, the Carstensz Pyramid and Gauri Sankar

Peter Boardman

Following a remarkable year of climbing, Peter Boardman’s last book Sacred Summits recounts his trips to the South Face of the Carstensz Pyramid in New Guinea, Kangchenjunga and Gauri Sankar.

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The Shining Mountain: The first ascent of the West Wall of Changabang

Peter Boardman

Peter Boardman planned to tackle the unclimbed West Wall of Changabang in 1976. This was perhaps the most fearsome and technically challenging granite wall in the Garhwal Himalaya. Amusing, lucidly…

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Savage Arena: K2, Changabang and the North Face of the Eiger

Joe Tasker

Savage Arena is an inspirational tale of the adventuring spirit which follows its own path. Tasker vividly describes the first British winter ascent of the North Face of the Eiger…

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Cairngorm John

John Allen

John Allen spent more than thirty years in the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team. in his mountaineering classic Cairngorm John, he shares stories of life and death, alongside discussions of hypothermia…

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Sea, Ice and Rock: Sailing and climbing Above the Arctic Circle

Robin Knox-Johnston,Sir Chris Bonington

When leading mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington contacted Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the first person to sail single-handed and non-stop around the world, for an interview, this request turned into a joint…

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Eiger Direct: The epic battle on the North Face

Peter Gillman,Dougal Haston

In February 1966, two teams planned the first direct ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, long renowned as the most dangerous climb in the Swiss Alps. The race…

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Snow on the Equator Paperback: Mount Kenya, Kilimanjaro and the great African odyssey

Major H. W. Tilman, CBE, DSO, MC, Bar

First published in 1937, Snow on the Equator chronicles H.W. Tilman’s early adventures; his transition from East African coffee planter to famed mountaineer.

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Kongur: China’s Elusive Summit

Sir Chris Bonington

When the Chinese Mountaineering Association opened many of China’s mountains to foreigners in the 1980s, Chris Bonington thought it too good an opportunity to miss. Kongur is his account of…

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The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922

C G Bruce

The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922 tells the story of the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition; the first mountaineering expedition with the express aim of making a successful ascent of…

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The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922

C G Bruce

The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922 tells the story of the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition; the first mountaineering expedition with the express aim of making a successful ascent of…

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