epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Greg Child [Child, Greg]

KAFKA COULD NOT HAVE CONCEIVED A MAZE MORE CONFOUNDING than the Ministry of Tourism in Islamabad. In this musty building, square one in the game that mountaineers play each summer ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jim Moore

0.1 Right onto W. Fir St. 0.2 Left onto S. Third St. 0.35 Right onto W. Elm St. 0.4 Left onto Applegate St., across intersection. 1.3 Applegate Street becomes Cady ...

epub |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Mike Mcquaide

NORTH CASCADES Here you’ll find big climbs (and accompanying big big views) on roads that spend much of the year under multiple feet of snow. So take advantage of them ...

mobi |eng | | Author:Muir, John [Muir, John]

* * * XVI Nevada's Dead Towns[21] Nevada is one of the very youngest and wildest of the States; nevertheless it is already strewn with ruins that seem as gray ...

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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Francis Slakey

I’ve thought about that moment many times, particularly in light of what would unfold over the next decade. For so much of my life I had thrived on dramatic moments ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-21 | Author:Middendorf, John, Pritchard, Paul, Parkin, Andy [Paul Pritchard]

CHAPTER TEN THE DOCTOR AND THE WITCH The dimensions of the room grow alternately larger then smaller. I can still remember my name, though I don’t care to. Faces I ...

epub |eng | 2014-12-03 | Author:Clint Willis

PART THREE Legends He goes because he must, as Galahad went toward the Grail, knowing that for those who can live it, this alone is life. —EVELYN UNDERHILL, MYSTICISM (1911) ...

epub |eng | | Author:Andy Kirkpatrick

Black bites Pitch 3 Reticent Wall THE STORM RAGED all night. I was alive. I knew I could just as easily have been dead, hanging frozen on the end of ...

epub | | 2013-03-03 | Author:George Lowe, Huw Lewis-Jones, Jan Morris, Peter Hillary [George Lowe]

Camp VI, 23,500 ft 15th May 1953 Dear Betty, There is such a lot to say and such a lot been doing in these five days that I’ll never be ...

mobi |eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:Planet Lonely

epub |eng, eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Simpson, Joe

Made famous by Joe Simpson in his epic tale of survival, Touching the Void, the west face of Siula Grande had its second ascent this June. Carlos Buhler and Mark ...

epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Matt Dickinson [Dickinson, Matt]

Our third trek up the East Rongbuk was a very different experience from the first two, with all of us fired up by the adrenaline rush that this time it ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Bruce Barcott

CAMP MUIR I began going high. On quiet mornings I slipped out of the city before it awoke and drove to Paradise, snapped on a pair of gaiters, and walked ...

epub |eng | 2008-11-14 | Author:Dick Bass & Frank Wells & Rick Ridgeway [BASS, DICK]

The next morning Frank Wells adjusted his oxygen regulator to two liters a minute, strapped on his face mask, and left camp 3 to start the long upward traverse across ...