Mountaineering
epub |eng | 2013-02-22 | Author:Eric J. Horst [Horst, Eric J.]

Wrong: Improper clip with the rope exiting on the wall side of the carabiner. To make a correct clip, observe how the carabiner naturally hangs along the wall surface and ...
( Category: Training September 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-08 | Author:Matt Dickinson

Tashi loaded her yaks with the Swiss expedition’s equipment the following day. Christophe and his team were a jovial bunch, experienced climbers who had ganged together to pay for an ...
( Category: Mountaineering September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-08 | Author:Brendan Leonard

I got my first newspaper job in the fall, at a tiny suburban twice-weekly paper. I wore business casual clothes, even though I hated them, and wrote small stories, collected ...
( Category: Biographies September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-14 | Author:Tommy Caldwell

PART THREE CHAPTER ELEVEN I run my tongue along my teeth. Ahhh, clean at last. A mint taste replaces the fuzz of microwaved burrito and coffee that had taken up ...
( Category: Mountaineering September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-16 | Author:Jin Yong [Yong, Jin]

* * * All this while, Century had been listening with rapt attention in silence. Suddenly, he broke in, "I know the reason why the Gilt-faced Buddha insisted on challenging ...
( Category: Classics September 8,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lincoln Hall

Sixteen TIME TO KILL FOURTEEN MILES FROM Base Camp, near the head of the East Rongbuk Glacier, Alex Abramov was up early at Advance Base Camp. He was monitoring as ...
( Category: Mountaineering September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:John U. Bacon

23 IN SEARCH OF PAUL BUNYAN Jim Plocki woke up early Saturday morning at the team hotel, which was a stone’s throw from the state capitol, and three miles down ...
( Category: Coaching September 1,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-06 | Author:Wade Davis [Davis, Wade]

Long before you get this you will know the result, which may make my speculations look foolish; but I must make them, I can think of nothing else. The excitement ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-29 | Author:Kristin Lenz

28 I pumped the pedals on the bike as fast as I could, wind stinging my face. To have to dread something as simple as a handshake. She fell hard ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-05 | Author:Read, Piers Paul;

2 A new spirit of optimism was generated among the parents by the news that a specially equipped C-47 of the Uruguayan Air Force was to be sent to search ...
( Category: Americas August 29,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Bob Madgic [Madgic, Bob]

ON SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1985, as the Rice, Hoog, and Cage parties, along with other hikers, tramped toward Half Dome, another tragedy was unfolding just to the south. Kings Canyon ...
( Category: Mountaineering August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-20 | Author:Damien Boyd [Boyd, Damien]

Dixon decided that the fastest way to the top of High Rock was to climb. He left his rucksack in the car and put his camera in his pocket. He ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Maurice Herzog

11 Camp II THE MINUTE I arrived, Terray gave me some boiling hot tea. I was not allowed to get a word in: he forced me to eat, indeed, practically ...
( Category: Mountaineering August 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Roberts

SEVEN The Meditation of Rébuffat WITH THE TEAM MEMBERS bound by their contract to publish no account of the expedition for five years after its conclusion, it would seem that ...
( Category: Mountaineering August 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-08-24 | Author:Angela Ballard & Duffy Ballard

From Tuolumne Meadows, the PCT reclaims its independence from the John Muir Trail. While the JMT continues west for twenty-seven miles to Yosemite Valley, the PCT enters a difficult but ...
( Category: Hiking & Camping August 24,2017 )