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:Lonely Planet

PUBLIC TRANSPORT At the time of research, foreigners were not allowed to travel on public transport in Tibet. Basic information is included here in case the situation changes. Markham སྨར་ཁམས་ ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Tuckey, Harriet [Tuckey, Harriet]

So please send me assurance (a) that you will see that my position and work for the expedition are properly recognised, and (b) that I am referred to not as ...

epub |eng | | Author:Dave Costello [COSTELLO, DAVE]

Lakpa and Babu’s current predicament was not an entirely new one. In 1862 two English scientists named Henry Coxwell and James Glaisher actually became the first people to fly above ...

epub |eng | 2006-04-06 | Author:Nando Parrado [Parrado, Nando]

ON THE MORNING of November 15, Numa, Roberto, Tintin, and I stood outside the fuselage, looking down the valley that sloped off to the east ready to begin our escape. ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-03-30 | Author:Graham Bowley

The second one also lay head-down against the ice but at a less steep angle. Both of the climbers, he saw, were still clipped onto the rope and hanging in ...

epub |eng | 2003-11-12 | Author:Joe Simpson [Simpson, Joe]

Dead? I couldn’t conceive of him dead, not now, not after I’ve survived. The chill silence of the crevasse came over me; the feel of tombs, of space for the ...

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 ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-23 | Author:Paul Little

CHAPTER 11 LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON If Peter Hillary were anyone else’s son, he would almost certainly be regarded as one of the world’s great adventurers. Firsts include the first ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2006-05-02 | Author:Steve Bell; Dick Bass; Pat Morrow

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 ...

mobi |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Luebben, Craig [Luebben, Craig]

WORKING A ROUTE If you can’t send a route foundational skills fosC Jeremy Collins”it on the first try, you can always work it, practicing the moves and clips while hanging ...

mobi |eng | 2013-01-02 | Author:Luebben, Craig [Luebben, Craig]

This cam is horrendously unstable. A little rope wriggle will walk it right out of its placement. A cam generates twice as much outward force as the downward load it ...

mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Jim Davidson; Kevin Vaughan

KNEELING OVER MIKE, I stare at his rumpled jacket, unsure of what to do. A question rings loudly in my mind: Where are we? I stand tentatively to look around. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-26 | Author:Ranulph Fiennes

13 Sorry Straits Trying to plan and organise two expeditions at the same time is something I have usually avoided, but whilst I was training for the solo Antarctic crossing ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-08-30 | Author:Aron Ralston

Eight “I’m Goin’ to Utah” People say that we’re searching for the meaning of life. I don’t think that’s it at all. I think that what we’re seeking is an ...