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The Newcomes. Memoirs of a most respectable Family by Thackeray William Makepeace
epub |eng | 2010-02-03 | Author:Thackeray, William Makepeace

The Countess of Kew, meanwhile, has returned to Baden, where, though it is midnight when she arrives, and the old lady has had two long bootless journeys, you will be ...
( Category: Classics January 16,2018 )
Himalaya Bound by Michael Benanav
epub |eng | 2017-01-10 | Author:Michael Benanav

Every morning, we were awake and moving long before daybreak. Dhumman, Mir Hamza, and Bashi—along with Yusuf and a couple of his sons—would start off in the darkness with the ...
( Category: Sociology January 10,2018 )
Bugaboo Dreams by Topher Donahue
epub |eng | 2013-12-05 | Author:Topher Donahue

Topher Donahue. A ski guide in Kootenay works hard to stay ahead of a group of hungry powder pigs. 7 The First Track A few points the guide should keep ...
( Category: Mountaineering December 28,2017 )
Hiking the Wonderland Trail by Tami Asars
epub |eng | 2012-12-24 | Author:Tami Asars

WHICH DIRECTION SHOULD I GO? The trail descriptions in this book are written in the clockwise direction, as that’s how the majority of hikers travel. However, I’ve made occasional notations ...
( Category: Hiking & Camping December 24,2017 )
A Day to Die For: 1996: Everest's Worst Disaster - One Survivor's Personal Journey to Uncover the Truth by Graham Ratcliffe
epub |eng | 2012-09-02 | Author:Graham Ratcliffe [Ratcliffe, Graham]

An Escape into History No sooner had I arrived home than I was out on location filming a BBC documentary called Mountain High: Twice To the Summit of Everest. Keith ...
( Category: Mountaineering December 15,2017 )
Everest the Cruel Way by Joe Tasker
epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Joe Tasker

Brian had some criticisms about the route up to the West Shoulder. He felt that there had been a tendency by the twins and John to take the most obvious ...
( Category: Mountaineering December 13,2017 )
Glacier Travel & Crevasse Rescue by Andy Selters
epub |eng | | Author:Andy Selters

SURFACE MEMBER PROCEDURES As mentioned in the introduction, extracting someone from a crevasse can be a fairly technical operation. Before getting into the procedures for surface members it's important to ...
( Category: Mountaineering December 3,2017 )
Iced In by Chris Turney
epub |eng | 2017-08-03 | Author:Chris Turney [Turney, Chris]

The Endurance headed east out from South Georgia to try to bypass the worst of the ice before plunging south into the Weddell Sea. It didn’t work. Three days after ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics December 3,2017 )
How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life by Bob Rotella
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Bob Rotella

10. Evaluating Yourself I’VE LEARNED a lot about the minds of champions by watching the way John Calipari evaluates, pumps up, and criticizes his basketball players at the University of ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling December 2,2017 )
Upward Bound: Nine Original Accounts of How Business Leaders Reached Their Summits by Michael Useem & Jerry Useem & Paul Asel
mobi |eng | 2003-11-03 | Author:Michael Useem & Jerry Useem & Paul Asel

5 Scaling Up: Ridge Walking from Silicon Valley to McKinley’s Summit PAUL ASEL Notice: Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
On the Edge: The Art of High-Impact Leadership by Alison Levine
mobi |eng | 2014-01-06 | Author:Alison Levine [Levine, Alison]

About five days into the trip, I was cooking my dinner in my tent, feeling pretty depressed about my inability to perform at the same level as my teammates. I ...
( Category: Business Culture December 2,2017 )
Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer by Anatoli Boukreev
epub |eng | 2015-09-08 | Author:Anatoli Boukreev [Boukreev, Anatoli]

7 THE ROADS WE CHOOSE, 19951 DHAULAGIRI, FALL 1995 The summer of 1995 was spent working for Himalayan Guides in the Tien Shan. Simon Yates, Henry Todd’s wife, Peta Waite, ...
( Category: Mountaineering November 28,2017 )
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev & G. Weston Dewalt
epub |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:Anatoli Boukreev & G. Weston Dewalt [Boukreev, Anatoli & Dewalt, G. Weston]

Q: Did you go to Lene and Klev again? A: Yes, I look in the tent, I spoke with Lene and Klev. I said, “I didn’t find nobody. Where is? ...
( Category: Mountaineering November 28,2017 )
A Woman's Place Is at the Top by Hannah Kimberley
epub |eng | | Author:Hannah Kimberley

7 Born, Not Made The name Peck is local in derivation and signifies “at the peck,” i.e., at the hilltop. The form of the word in medieval English is pek, ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers November 25,2017 )
Above the Clouds by Anatoli Boukreev
epub |eng | | Author:Anatoli Boukreev

7 THE ROADS WE CHOOSE, 19951 DHAULAGIRI, FALL 1995 The summer of 1995 was spent working for Himalayan Guides in the Tien Shan. Simon Yates, Henry Todd’s wife, Peta Waite, ...
( Category: Mountaineering November 23,2017 )

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