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The Colorado Trail by Colorado Mountain Club
epub |eng | 2016-04-10 | Author:Colorado Mountain Club

TRAIL DESCRIPTION Segment 11 starts at the south side of the Mount Massive Trailhead parking area next to Halfmoon Creek, mile 0.0 (10,065 feet). This is the re-entry point for ...
( Category: Hiking & Camping April 10,2018 )
100 Classic Hikes in North Carolina by Joe Miller
epub |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Joe Miller

Catch a profile of Pilot Mountain on Sauratown Trail’s Section 15. To some, that’s not an experience to be replicated in a recreational hike—although replicate may be pushing it: Lawson ...
( Category: Hiking & Camping April 9,2018 )
Master of Thin Air: Life and Death on the World's Highest Peaks by Andrew Lock & Peter Hillary
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-08-31 | Author:Andrew Lock & Peter Hillary

8 A HIGHER GOAL Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence. Hermann Buhl Climbing Everest was the realisation of a dream born in 1985 in the back room of ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers April 9,2018 )
Photography Outdoors by James Martin
epub |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:James Martin

Cleaning tools: blower, swab, liquid, static brushes Before touching the sensor glass with anything, try blasting it with air. Don’t blow into the camera. The safest method involves a hand-squeezed ...
( Category: Photography & Video April 9,2018 )
A Life on the Edge by Jim Whittaker
epub |eng | | Author:Jim Whittaker

Throughout these years, both before and after Blanche and I divorced, I buried myself in work at REI, in part to avoid my unhappiness at home. Here, at least, my ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers April 9,2018 )
Enduring Patagonia by Gregory Crouch
epub |eng | 2002-03-05 | Author:Gregory Crouch

LA TIERRA DESCONOCIDA: THE UNKNOWN COUNTRY Change is a fact of our world like the sunrise, and the cosmologists tell us even that won’t happen forever. In the mountains, the ...
( Category: South America April 8,2018 )
Hypothermia, Frostbite and Other Cold Injuries by Gordon Giesbrecht
epub |eng | | Author:Gordon Giesbrecht

Figure 6-2. Cold water drowning treatment algorithm based on State of Alaska Cold Injuries Guidelines CHAPTER 7 You’re As Cold As Ice: Frostbite FROSTBITE IS A LOCALIZED cold injury produced ...
( Category: Diseases & Physical Ailments April 8,2018 )
Killing Dragons by Fergus Fleming
epub |eng | 2000-04-07 | Author:Fergus Fleming

CHAPTER SIXTEEN ‘As the strokes of midnight were clanging from the Campanile at Sondrio, a carriage rolled heavily into the courtyard of the Hotel della Maddelena.’1 With these evocative words, ...
( Category: Mountaineering April 7,2018 )
Extreme Alpinism by Mark F. Twight & James Martin
epub |eng | 2013-01-06 | Author:Mark F. Twight & James Martin [Twight, Mark F.]

Ice tools: Choose the lightest ice tools available that can stand up to the abuse of alpine climbing. To be sure, the DMM Predator, at 31 ounces, and the Charlet ...
( Category: Mountaineering April 7,2018 )
Colliding Continents by Mike Searle
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Mike Searle

Kangshung Face of Everest In the autumn of 2003 Rick Law, an expatriate Brit who was a professor at Virginia Tech in the US, and I managed to get a ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 7,2018 )
Last of His Kind by David Roberts
epub |eng | 2009-04-06 | Author:David Roberts

“My throat had gotten very sore, and I could hardly speak, but I was mad enough. I asked him, ‘What is the idea?’ “He told me they had given us ...
( Category: Biographies April 6,2018 )
Day Hiking Columbia River Gorge by Craig Romano
epub |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Craig Romano

GETTING THERE The trailhead is on State Route 14 in Lyle, located just before the junction with SR 142 (elev. 150 ft). Privy available. (From Portland, drive I-84 east to ...
( Category: Hiking & Camping April 5,2018 )
Waterfall Lover's Guide Pacific Northwest by Gregory Plumb
epub |eng | 2013-04-05 | Author:Gregory Plumb

4 YEON STATE PARK John B. Yeon State Park is a day-use area located next to the east end of the Historic Columbia River Highway, just before the juction with ...
( Category: United States April 5,2018 )
Climbing Anchors by John Long & Bob Gaines
epub |eng | | Author:John Long & Bob Gaines

This shows a climber running the lead rope through the anchor points as he takes off on lead. If he should fall, his full weight will come onto the anchor, ...
( Category: Mountaineering April 4,2018 )
New Frontier by Unknown
epub |eng | 2012-07-26 | Author:Unknown

Star Trek New Frontier Boretskee and Gary looked at each other with undisguised joy and relief. "We accept your offer," they said. "Excellent. I shall inform my homeworld." The screen ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 2,2018 )

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