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 | 2013-12-16 | Author:Monty Alford

chapter 5 LIVING WITH COLD FEW OF US WHO are exposed to a cold environment for at least half the year give much thought to the fact that we are ...

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, pdf |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Stephen White [White, Stephen]

The next day I got a call on my Ob-la-di phone as I was sitting in my Denver office pondering my fate. No greeting. The voice in my ear was ...

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, mobi |eng | 1948-02-24 | Author:Enid Blyton [Blyton, Enid]

Chapter 17 A BOAT, A BOAT! “DO YOU think it’s worth while keeping the fire going, if the aeroplanes belong to the enemy?” asked Lucy-Ann at last. “Well, if we’re ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1949-02-24 | Author:Enid Blyton [Blyton, Enid]

Chapter 17 PHILIP AGAIN “IT’S queer there’s nobody about at all,” said Jack, staring round at the silent hall. “Not a soul to be seen! I wonder where everyone is. ...

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 | 2012-12-20 | Author:April Lindner

Catherine For a while, Hence and I met up at Jackie’s every day after school. Then, one afternoon, as he was slipping back into his jeans, he gave me a ...

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 | 2011-05-17 | Author:===========================================================================

Chapter VIII AN updraft got under a wing of the plane, gave it a mighty kick. The motors seemed to sob, and Renny grabbed instinctively for something to hold on ...