Biografien von Kletterern

The Munros in Winter: 277 Summits in 83 Days

Autor: Martin Moran

The Summit: How Triumph Turned to Tragedy on K2's Deadliest Days

Autoren: Pemba Sherpa Gyalje, Pat Falvey

A Youth Wasted Climbing

Autor: David Chaundy-smart
Vorwort: John Kaandorp

Cold Wars: Climbing the fine line between risk and reality

Autor: Andy Kirkpatrick

Facing Up: A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Everest

Bear Grylls

Shishapangma: The Alpine-Style First Ascent of the South-West Face

Doug Scott, Alex Macintyre

Durchs Jahrhundert: Mein Leben als Arzt und Bergsteiger

Lutz Chicken

Beyond Limits: A Life Through Climbing

Steve McClure

One Man's Everest: The Autobiography of Kenton Cool

Kenton Cool

The Hard Years: His Autobiography

Joe Brown

One Day as a Tiger: Alex Macintyre and the Birth of Light and Fast Alpinism

John Porter

" The wall was the ambition, the style became the obsession. "

In the autumn of 1982, a single stone fell from high on the south face of Annapurna and struck Alex Mac Intyre on the head, killing him instantly and robbing the climbing world of one of its greatest talents. Although only 28 years old, Alex was already one of the leading figures of British mountaineering's most successful era. His ascents included hard new routes on Himalayan giants like Dhaulagiri and Changabang and a glittering record of firsts in the Alps and Andes.  

Yet how Alex climbed was as important as what he climbed. He was a mountaineering prophet, sharing with a handful of contemporaries - including his climbing partner Voytek Kurtyka - the vision of a purer form of alpinism on the world's highest peaks.  

One Day as a Tiger, John Porter's revelatory and poignant memoir of his friend Alex Mac Intyre, shows mountaineering at its extraordinary best and tragic worst - and draws an unforgettable picture of a dazzling, argumentative and exuberant legend.

Boundless Horizons: The Autobiography of Chris Bonington: I Chose to Climb / The Next Horizon / The Everest Years

Sir Chris Bonington

Rock Queen

Catherine Destivelle

No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks

Ed Viesturs, David Roberts

For 18 years, Ed Viesturs pursued climbing's holy grail: to stand atop the world's 14 8, 000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to the Top is as much about the man who would become the first American to achieve that goal as it is about his stunning quest. As Viesturs recounts the stories of his most harrowing climbs, he reveals a man torn between the flat, safe world he and his loved ones share and the majestic and deadly places where only he can go.

A preternaturally cautious climber who once turned back 300 feet from the top of Everest but who would not shrink from a peak ( Annapurna) known to claim the life of one climber for every two who reached its summit, Viesturs lives by an unyielding motto: " Reaching the summit is optional. Getting down is mandatory. " It is with this philosophy that he vividly describes fatal errors in judgment made by his fellow climbers, as well as a few of his own close calls and gallant rescues. And, for the first time, he details his own pivotal and heroic role in the 1996 Everest disaster made famous in Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air.

No Shortcuts to the Top is more than the first full account of one of the staggering accomplishments of our time; it is a portrait of a brave and devoted family man and the beliefs that shaped this most perilous and magnificent pursuit.

Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory (English Edition)

Autoren: Peter Gillman, Leni Gillman

One Man's Climb: A Journey of Trauma, Tragedy and Triumph on K2 (English Edition)

Autor: Adrian Hayes
Vorwort: Ranulph Fiennes

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