epub |eng | | Author:Maria Coffey

A month after I stood in that phone booth in Vienna, Chris Bonington received the roll of film, the evidence of the body on the mountain. He sent the images ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-06-10 | Author:Nan Shepherd [Nan Shepherd]

SEVEN Life: The Plants I have written of inanimate things, rock and water, frost and sun; and it might seem as though this were not a living world. But I ...

epub |eng | 2018-11-28 | Author:Pam Houston

Ranch Almanac: Lambing My shearer, Tom Barr, says Icelandics are the toughest sheep he shears, the strongest and the most unruly, but since they’re the only sheep I’ve had, I ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:Conrad Anker [Anker, Conrad]

NEW ROUTES The next big breakthrough occurred in 1960, when the Chinese/Tibetans embarked on a massive 214-member expedition whose leader was none other than Mao Zedong. They chose the North ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2017-04-25 | Author:Daniel Mathews

crust lichens Map Lichen Rhizocarpon geographicum (rye-zo-car-pon: root fruit). Chartreuse yellow patches broken by fine black lines and surrounded by a wider black margin. On rocks; abundant in exposed situations. ...

epub |eng | 2012-04-05 | Author:Douglas H. Chadwick

After the country melted out, Copeland flew once a week to get radio locations. “Then we’d go in on the ground to try to follow the animals,” he explained. “The ...

mobi |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Jordan Fisher Smith [Smith, Jordan Fisher]

A few months later it was my turn to go to the bridge. It was early morning, and the sun rising over the mountains on the eastern skyline was painting ...

epub |eng | 2003-05-26 | Author:Robert Macfarlane [Macfarlane, Robert]

For a long time, Noah held the altitude record. Opinion differs sharply as to the location and height of the biblical Mount Ararat, upon the slopes of which the Ark ...

epub |eng | | Author:Rick Bass

The Legend of Pig-Eye WE USED TO GO to bars, the really seedy ones, to find our fights. It excited Don. He loved going into the dark old dives, ducking ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-13 | Author:Jon Bell

JOEL PALMER didn’t ever walk to the very top of Mount Hood, nor did he own a pair of sneakers. But in 1845 the Canadianborn pioneer became the first known ...

epub |eng | | Author:Michael Kodas

After his initial complaints that the Courant and I weren’t providing him and the rest of the team with e-mail and satellite phone service, he accused Bill Driggs, ironically the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Jon Bell

JOEL PALMER didn’t ever walk to the very top of Mount Hood, nor did he own a pair of sneakers. But in 1845 the Canadianborn pioneer became the first known ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-29 | Author:Jordan Fisher Smith

A few months later it was my turn to go to the bridge. It was early morning, and the sun rising over the mountains on the eastern skyline was painting ...