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Beyond the Mountain : by Steve House

 

Reinhold Messner calls Steve House the best high altitude climber in the world today, an honour he declines; he says it makes him very uncomfortable. Despite his modestly he is a very accomplished climber having made many impressive first ascents in the Alps, Canada, Alaska, the Karakorum and the Himalayas in pure ‘alpine style’. His new book is a gripping read destined to become a mountain classic; it addresses many issues common to non-climbing life - trust, failure, goal-setting, heroes, partnerships - as well as the mountaineer’s heightened experience of risk and the death of friends.

Hardback

pp 286

160 x 245

Illus. col. plates

1st US edition

£23.95

Presumptuous Pinnacle Ladies

Selection from Early Journals of Womens Rock Climbing Club

 

In 1921 the Pinnacle Club was founded, the UK’s first all-female rock climbing club. With support from The Manchester Guardian, the Fell & Rock and the Rucksack Club, it attracted plenty of talented recruits. This new book is a fascinating collection of varied and entertaining articles from the club’s early journals showing women climbers’ determination to find their own way and own their own voice. Focusing mainly on North Wales, The Lakes and Skye; it presents an unfolding story of women’s rock climbing and mountaineering.

pp 176

120 x 170

hardback

£14.95

8376 Mackenzie M. IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MALLORY AND IRVINE. The Wildest Dream.  John Murray.  2009 1st.  pp248.  cold. illus.  New in dw £20

 

8360 Sale R. MAPPING THE HIMALAYAS.   2009 1st.  pp208.  44 maps of all the Pundit journeys, 16pp. colour photo. illus. and other b/w illus. softback housed in slipcase with maps. SIGNED by the author. New  £75

 

7952 Finch G.I. (Ed. George Rodway) THE STRUGGLE FOR EVEREST.   Carreg.  2008 1st. pp232 b/w illus. throughout text. less than 500 copies printed. New in dw £20

 

7955 Hanson R. MAURICE WILSON. A Yorkshireman on Everest.  Hayloft.  2008 1st.  pp199.  some illus. and diagrams. p.b. with cold. illus. covers. Signed by Doug Scott. New  £30

 

7962 Kirkpatrick A. PSYCHOVERTICAL.   Hutchinson.  2008 1st.  pp277.  photos., maps and line illus. signed by the author. New in dw £40

 

8374 Muhl R. EVEREST. Surviving The Death Zone.  2008 1st.  pp314.  cold. illus. maps.  New in dw

 

7688 Venables S. HIGHER THAN THE EAGLE SOARS. A Path to Everest.  Hutchinson.  2007 1st.  pp370. many cold. illus. and some b/w maps.  New in dw £20

 

7496 Harlin III (Ed.) J. THE AMERICAN ALPINE JOURNAL. The World's Most Significant Climbs.  AAC Press.  2006  pp520. many cold. and b/w illus. and map diagrams. pict. p.b. New  £15

 

7947 Hardie N. ON MY OWN TWO FEET. The life of a mountaineer.   Canterbury University Press.  2006 1st.  pp323.  cold. and b.w. illus. and 5 maps. cold. illus. p.b. A fascinating autobiography of one of the finest New Zealand mountaineers. Hardie led one of the two summit pairs that made the first ascent of Kangchenjunga. This copy SIGNED by the author. New  £25

 

7396 Kapadia (Hon. Ed.) Harish THE HIMALAYAN JOURNAL   O.U.P. for The Himalayan Club.  2006 1st.  pp280. many illustrations in col. and b/w.. vol. 62. other journals from previous years also available. prices from  New  £25

 

7869 Band G. SUMMIT 150 years of the Alpine Club.  Collins. 2006 1st pp256. many cold. and b/w illus. and map diagrams. Signed by George Band and by Charles Wylie. New in dw £60

 

7515 Lacedelli L. and Cenacchi G. K2 THE PRICE OF CONQUEST.  Carreg. 2006 1st.  pp127 cold. and b/w illus. signed by Lacedelli n title page. New in dw £95

 

7486 Perrin J. THE CLIMBING ESSAYS.  The In Pinn. 2006 1st.  pp320.  illus. SIGNED by Jim Perrin. New in dw £100

 

7937 Jackson J. ADVENTURE TRAVELS IN THE HIMALAYA. a selection of memories by John Angelo Jackson.  Indus.  2005 1st.  pp256.  65 cold. illus. maps. sketches by Geeta Kapadia and foreword by Harish Kapadia. a nicely published paperback  New  £15

 

8413 Simpson J. TOUCHING THE VOID.   Jonathan Cape.  2005 rpt.  pp172.  21 cold. plates. 2 maps.  New in dw £15

 

5599 Astill Tony MOUNT EVEREST : The Reconnaissance 1935. 'The Forgotten Adventure'. Privately Published by the Author. December 2005 1st.  pp 380.  128 photographic illustrations. 10 new maps. [3 fold.] foreword by John Hunt, introduction by Sir Edmund Hillary. SIGNED by the Author.  Winner James Monroe Thorington award for best book in mountaineering history at Banff 2006.  hardback [235 x 185] Michael Spender photogrammetric survey of the North Face of Everest on the unique 'double'  New in dw £40

Few copies remaining.

 

8211 Johnson A. SIR EDMUND HILLARY. An Extraordinary Life.  Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd.  2005 1st.  pp232.  many cold. and b/w illus. signed by Chris Bonington, Mike Westmacott, Paul Braithwaite, Rebecca Stephens, Ang Rita Sherpa, George Band, and Ed Cotter. New in dw £150

 

7448 Cave A. LEARNING TO BREATHE.   Hutchinson.  2005 1st. pp276 2 sections of cold. photos. 2 maps. signed by the author. Joint winner of the Boardman Tasker prize 2005. New in dw

 

7539 Hawley and Salisbury, R. E. THE HIMALAYAN DATABASE. The Himalayan Archives of Elizabeth Hawley.  American Alpine Club.  2004 1st.  pp80.   DVD and users manual. New  £39

 

7629 Compagnoni A. K2 CONQUISTA ITALIANA. Tra storia e memoria.  Bolis Edizioni.  2004 1st.  pp179.  many illus. in colour and b/w. Signed by Achille Compagnoni on title page. New in dw £120

 

6540 Noel S. EVEREST PIONEER. The Photographs of Captain John Noel.  Sutton Publishing.  2003 1st.  ppxvi + 176.  180 illus. 10 in colour. maps.  SIGNED by the author New in dw £55

 

6330 Hunt J. THE ASCENT OF EVEREST.   Hodder & Stoughton. 2003 50th. anniversary edition.  pp280.  one of a Limited Edition of 1000 copies. cold. frontis. cold. and b/w plates. text illus. by Charles Evans. map diagrams. new foreword by The Duke of Edinburgh. with a f.e.p. having the facsimile signatures of all 15 members of the team. in original slipcase. New in dw £55

 

6775 Ward M. EVEREST A THOUSAND YEARS OF EXPLORATION. A Record of Mountaineering, Geographical Exploration, Medical Research and Mapping.  The Ernest Press.  2003 1st. (only 500 copies printed)  pp350.  cold. frontis.(in the correct place.) 25 plates. 62 maps, diagrams & drawings including an 8 page map by Ted Hatch and illus. e.p.'s. SIGNED by George Lowe and George Band. New in dw £95

 

6412 Hillary Sir Edmund HIMALAYAN 50th. ANNIVERSARY CALENDAR   Himalayan Trust UK.  2002 1st.  with 13 colour photographs by Sir Edmund Hillary, George Lowe, Alfred Gregory, Charles Wylie, George Band, Michael Westmacott, John Jackson, Rebecca Stephens, Tashi Tenzing, Sir Chris Bonington, Colin Monteath and Peter Hillary. ring bound, this calendar can be used to record special birthdays and anniversaries from year to year. All proceeds from the sale of this calendar go directly to this fine charity. ORDER QUICKLY BEFORE IT IS OUT OF PRINT! New  £10

 

7540 Marty S. SWITCHBACKS. True Stories from the Canadian Rockies.  M & S  2001 trade p.b.  pp316.   SIGNED by the author. New  £12

 

6762 Fisher H. FROM A TRAMP'S WALLET. A Life of Douglas William Freshfield.  The Erskine Press.  2001 1st.  pp307.  photo. illus. sketch maps. engravings.  New in dw £25

 

7535 Marty S. MEN FOR THE MOUNTAINS.   M & S  2000 trade p.b.  pp312.   SIGNED by the author. New  £12

 

8216 Steele P. ERIC SHIPTON. Everest and Beyond.  Constable.  1998 rpt.  pp290.  illus. 21 maps drawn by the author. winner of the Boardman Tasker prize for Mountaineering Literature 1998. signed by 1953 Everest team members George Band, George Lowe, Charles Wylie, Michael Ward and Mike Westmacott. Signature of Peter Steele tipped in on title page. also signed by Jim Perrin New in dw £350

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ron Fawcett - Rock Athlete

264pp  24 col. illus.

hardback with d/w

signed copy £30

 

Moffat G. and Grimes N.  REVELATIONS.  Vertebrate Publishing 2010 1st rpt.  pp242.  b/w illus. Grand Prize winner at Banff 2009. a signed copy New. in dw £30

 

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Climbing Everest  Passion for Mountaineering

Collection of published writings on the Everest by George Mallory, the

man who may have been the first man to reach its top 29 years before

Hillary. George Mallory belongs to a short but distinguished line of literary mountaineers such as Joe Simpson, Jon Krakauer and Edward

Whymper, the conqueror of the Matterhorn. He answered the questioned

'Why climb Everest' with the dry put down 'Because it is there.' In this book his published writings on Everest are collected for the first time.

pp. 224 [222 x 141mm] Gibson Square  Price £18

Unjustifiable Risk? The Story of British Climbing

by Simon Thompson

hardback, 400 pages, 40 photographs

A social, economic and cultural history of British rock climbing and mountaineering charting the conditions that gave rise to the sport, and the achievements and motives of those who have shaped its development over 200 years. Today’s climbers share a desire to escape from urban society but what makes them take that unjustifiable risk?

Price £20 + post

NO WAY DOWN. Life and Death on K2.  By Graham Bowley Viking - Penguin.  2010 1st. pp253. cold. illus.  in dw  £19

The story of one of the worst disasters in the history of mountaineering, when eleven of the world’s best climbers died on a single ascent in 2008. The book is written in a thrilling style like Touching the Void and Into Thin Air; it captures all the tension and

tragedy of that fateful day.

Ed Webster SNOW IN THE KINGDOM. My Storm Years on Everest.  Mountain Imagery.  2011 the new 2nd edition pp500.  very many great colour and b/w photographic illus. Now in higher resolution. signed by the author. orig. blue cloth. A New copy in dw £30

 

SIGNED COPIES OF SOME OF THESE NEW BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE

 

 Wade Davis INTO THE SILENCE. The Great War, George Mallory and the Conquest of Everest.  The Bodley Head  2011 1st. U.K.  pp672.   £25  An enthralling twist on the first three Everest expeditions and hugely well researched and written. Soon to become a classic of mountaineering literature.

 

Michael Gill HIMALAYAN HOSPITALS. Sir Edmund Hillary’s Everest Legacy. First Published Craig Cotton Publishing 2011. pp472. New in dw. £25

 

 

 

 

Barry Imeson PLAYING THE MAN. A biography of the mountaineer Captain John Percy Farrar D.S.O. Published by the author. Loose Scree 2010. 1st. Pp233. New in dw. please ask.

 

 

 

 

 

  Joe Simpson THE SOUND OF GRAVITY.   2011 1st.  pp234.  a novel. orig. black cloth gilt. Signed by the author. New in dw £30

 

 

 

 

Andy Kirkpatrick COLD WARS. Climbing the fine line between risk and reality.  Vetebrate Publishing.  2011 1st.  pp272.  illus. in col. and b/w. orig. blue cloth silver. New in dw £20

 

 

 

E. Henry TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY.   Troubador.  2011 1st.  pp428. full page and text illus., maps, being reproductions of Whymper engravings.

 

 

 

  Daniel Anker & Volken M. WEISSHORN der Diamant des Wallis.  AS Verlag & Buchkonzept 2011 1st.  pp173.  very many superb colour illustrations and b/w. no. 16 in the series of Bergmonografien.

 

 

P. Berg WHYMPER'S SCRAMBLES WITH CAMERA. A Victorian magic lantern show.  Alpine Club.  2011 1st.  pp138.  illus. with reproductions of the lanterns slides and others. odd fold. card covers.