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Into the silence
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Wade Davis |
A beautifully evocative exploration of the inchoate motives of a group of British climbers who attempted to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s. There was patriotism, of course, but also a desire … |
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To the top of Everest
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Laurie Skreslet,Elizabeth MacLeod |
The author, who became the 131st person to reach the peak of Mount Everest in 1982, recounts his experience, and explains how his achievement came with a heavy price as he and his expedition faced hi… |
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Zou alpiniste
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Élisabeth de Lambilly |
Zou aimerait bien devenir alpiniste, mais sa copine Elzée lui fiat remarquer qu'il n'y a aucune montagne où il peut s'entraîner dans la région. Ne faisant ni une ni deux, son papi rassemble des corde… |
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Le choix du vide
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Steph Davis |
Steph Davis, une américaine hors limite, qui aime prendre des risques, se laissant guider par son instinct et agissant en fonction de ce qu'elle ressent au plus profond d'elle-même. Pour inégalée qu'… |
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Ascent to the summit
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Saint Herman of Alaska Brotherhood |
The biography of a champion mountain climber and alpine rescuer living in the North Causasus (Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia), Fr. Igor Rozin, who converted to the Eastern Orthodox Faith and was o… |
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Tina en el Aconcagua
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Araceli Segarra |
Con los viajes de Tina descubrirás la montaña más alta de cada continente y la forma como escalarla. Pero esto es sólo una excusa: el verdadero viaje consiste en conocer la gran diversidad de cultura… |
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Finding Mount Guyot
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Buddha Palguta |
"A laugh-out-loud backpacking story about a whiskey-drinking, blue-collar kid from the flatlands of Cleveland, Ohio who gets it into his head that he wants to be a mountain man. Beginning in 1977, th… |
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Cold feet
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David Pagel |
Written from the wide-eyed, self-effacing perspective of a mountaineer who pursues epic adventure while locked in a perpetual struggle with fear and self-doubt, David Pagel's stories--featured in Cli… |
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