Winter Sports
epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Mike Zawaski

Photo 3-22. Plunging the shaft, instead of the pick, into the snow may work better for climbing over a lip in soft snow. Photo 3-23, top left. When climbing over ...
( Category: Winter Sports November 13,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bruce Tremper

Photo 4-4. When traveling, I probe with my ski pole hundreds of times a day to feel the unseen layers below. With harder snow, I turn my ski pole upside ...
( Category: Mountaineering November 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-18 | Author:Kristen Ulmer

WORTH IT A woman gave birth to a baby in a village. Everyone in town celebrated. The baby was happy and healthy, until one evening the baby suddenly fell ill ...
( Category: Winter Sports November 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-26 | Author:Ekaterina Gordeeva & E. M. Swift [GORDEEVA EKATERINA]

At our wedding banquet. Sergei and I were the last to leave. I drove us back to our apartment. I remember thinking, Look at me, chauffering my husband home from ...
( Category: Biographies November 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-11-06 | Author:Roland Huntford

24 Mathias Zdarsky Mathias Zdarsky was the true father of Alpine skiing. Another unsettled subject of the patchwork Habsburg empire, he came from a German-speaking enclave in Moravia, now part ...
( Category: Winter Sports November 6,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2000-11-02 | Author:Lennard Bickel

Eight hours after Ninnis was killed—at nine in the evening of December 14—they pulled with the dogs along the old tracks until they came to the rise that would hide ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica November 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-09-29 | Author:Brian Patrick O'Donoghue

“Good to see you so upbeat,” said race Judge Bill Bartlett. “Why not,” I said. “This is fun, and it sure beats working. “I’m not staying long,” I added, grinning ...
( Category: Iditarod & Dog-Sledding October 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Lynne Cox [Cox, Lynne]

Jimmy shows off his hunting stick beside a polar-bear skin. Now he waits for the Arctic char to return to King William Island. Still restless and feeling lonely, I walked ...
( Category: Travel Writing October 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-27 | Author:Sprague Theobald & Allan Kreda [Theobald, Sprague]

CHAPTER 11 STUCK I was stunned. Peter’s email had literally knocked the wind out of me. It felt as though I was watching a 1950s B-movie with terrible special effects, ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 18,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1998-11-03 | Author:The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

On Elephant Island The James Caird, Dudley Docker, and Stancomb Wills safely ashore at Cape Valentine, Elephant Island. The men pull the Caird to higher ground; two figures, one in ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica September 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:Will Steger

QUITTING IS NOT AN OPTION NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 1, DAY 98 For the past two days we’ve been paralleling the tallest mountains in Antarctica; thirteen- to fourteen-thousand-foot brutes with walls of ...
( Category: Winter Sports September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-22 | Author:John Geiger & John Geiger

Cherrywood pipe. While systematically searching the boat place, Tungilik caught sight of a small ivory-white object projecting slightly from a mat of vegetation. Picking at the object with his finger, ...
( Category: World September 22,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1986-01-01 | Author:Barry Lopez [Lopez, Barry]

Areas of year-round open water in the Canadian Arctic. Adapted from Ian Stirling and Holly Cleator, Polynyas in the Canadian Arctic. One cannot consider polynyas, of course, without recalling images ...
( Category: Polar Regions September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 1997-09-04 | Author:Sara Wheeler [Sara Wheeler]

CHAPTER NINE Igloos and Nitroglycerine I don’t really mind science – I just seem to feel better when it’s not around. Observed on latrine wall, Central West Antarctica deep field ...
( Category: Winter Sports September 4,2017 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Blake, Leta [Blake, Leta]

* * * “Why are you so upset? You were almost late to the Olympics, and this isn’t even close to as important,” Rob said. “Don’t throw the Olympics in ...
( Category: LGBT August 29,2017 )