Everest Mountain Guide: The Remarkable Story of a Kiwi Mountaineer by Guy Cotter
$50.00 NZD
Category: Mountaineering
The book follows the career of Guy Cotter, Kiwi mountaineer and mountain guide, who has been leading guided ascents of Mt Everest from the early 1990’s. Everest Mountain Guide is an authentic and riveting behind-the-scenes insight into what actually transpires on the mountain, the huge challenges faced ...Show more
No Picnic on Mount Kenya by Felice Benuzzi
$28.00 NZD
Category: Mountaineering
A rediscovered mountaineering classic and the extraordinary true story of a daring escape up Mount Kenya by three prisoners of war.When the clouds covering Mount Kenya part one morning to reveal its towering peaks for the first time, prisoner of war Felice Benuzzi is transfixed. The tedium of camp life ...Show more
Touching The Void by Joe Simpson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Mountaineering
'Touching the Void' is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon, reached the the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frost-bitten, with news that ...Show more
The Villain : The Life of Don Whillans by Jim Perrin
$40.00 NZD
Category: Mountaineering
Don Whillans has an iconic significance for generations of climbers. His epoch-making first ascent of Annapurna's South Face, achieved with Dougal Haston in 1970, remains one of the most impressive climbs ever made - but behind this and all his other formidable achievements lies a tough, recalcitrant re ...Show more
Starlight & Storm by Rebuffat Gaston
$34.99 NZD
Category: Mountaineering | Series: Exploration Ser.
"One of the great climbers of all time . . . who has discovered through the medium of mountains the true perspective of living." --Sir John Hunt, author of The Conquest of Everest Known for his lyrical writing and his ability to convey not only the dangers of mountaineering but the pure exaltation of th ...Show more
The Last Blue Mountain - The Great Karakoram Climbing Tragedy by Ralph Barker
$35.00 NZD
Category: Mountaineering
'When an accident occurs, something may emerge of lasting value, for the human spirit may rise to its greatest heights. This happened on Haramosh.'The Last Blue Mountain is the heart-rending true story of the 1957 expedition to Mount Haramosh in the Karakoram range in Pakistan. With the summit beyond re ...Show more
Mountains and Desire - Climbing vs. the End of the World by Margret Grebowicz
$28.00 NZD
Category: Mountaineering
On the 100th anniversary of the first attempt to climb Mt Everest, Margret Grebowicz shows how and why climbing and mountaineering are still important today.In 1923, a reporter asked George Mallory why he wanted to summit Mount Everest. "Because it's there". Today the question "why do this?" is include ...Show more
The Beckoning Silence by Joe Simpson
$45.00 NZD
Category: Mountaineering
Joe Simpson has experienced a life filled with adventure, but marred by death. He has endured the painful attrition of climbing friends in accidents, which call into question the perilously exhilarating activity to which he has devoted his whole life. Probability is inexorably closing in. The tragic los ...Show more
The Mountains of My Life by Walter Bonatti
$45.00 NZD
Category: Mountaineering | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Mountains of My Life" collects Walter Bonatti's classic writings detailing his exploits on numerous expeditions to different mountains of the world, as well as the real story behind the controversy over the events on K2 that changed his life. Bonatti is one of the greatest mountaineers of all time, ...Show more
The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest (Maurice Wilson) by Ed Caesar
$26.00 NZD
Category: Mountaineering
The untold story of Britain's most mysterious mountaineering legend - Maurice Wilson - and his heroic attempt to climb Everest. Alone.In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Everest, a little-known World War I veteran conceived his own crazy, beautiful plan. He wo ...Show more
Not Set in Stone by David Vass
$40.00 NZD
Category: Mountaineering
Between the 1980s and 2015, Dave Vass became one of New Zealand's leading mountaineers. In 'Not Set in Stone' he recounts the beginning of his outdoor life caving and rafting, before turning to climbing, first around Arthur's Pass, and then at Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park. A move to Wanaka saw him ...Show more
The White Spider : The story of the north face of the Eiger by Heinrich Harrer (tr from German Hugh Merrick; additional chapters by Heinrich Harrer & Kurt Maix)
$32.00 NZD
Category: Mountaineering
A classic of mountaineering literature, this is the story of the harrowing first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the most legendary and terrifying climb in history. Heinrich Harrer, author of 'Seven Years in Tibet' and one of the twentieth century's greatest mountaineers, was part of the team th ...Show more