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1) Silenced
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Alaskan courage volume 4
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"After Kayden McKenna discovers the body of a fellow climber, she and Jake Westin team up to investigate the death--provoking threats on her entire family"--
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Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Long before she became the first American woman to summit K2 and the first British woman to return from its summit alive, Vanessa O’Brien was a feisty suburban Detroit teenager forced to reinvent her world in the wake of a devastating loss that destroyed her family. Making her own way in the world, Vanessa strove to reach her lofty ambitions. Soon, armed with an MBA and a wry sense of humor, she climbed the corporate ladder to great success, but...
3) Free solo
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Despite attempts by his friends, loved ones and his new girlfriend to dissuade him from this dangerous feat, Alex Honnold, the worlds most accomplished free soloist climber, prepares mentally and physically for his most daring adventure to date: scaling the 3200-foot El Capitan in Yosemite without a rope or safety gear. If he succeeds, it will mark the largest wall he, or anyone else, for that matter, has ascended without any kind of equipment.
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Professional mountaineer Lily is building a new life for herself--in ways she never would have expected. She's traded the mountain wilderness of Wyoming for the lush river country of the deep South, where she is busy restoring a fine old Natchez, Mississippi house. And she's rediscovered happiness with Matt Starr, the man she has always loved.
But Lily's dreams for the future are suddenly threatened when Matt disappears without a trace. Fearing foul...
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Publisher
Mountaineers Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appalachian Trail (AT), Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), and Continental Divide Trail (CDT) a combined distance of 7,900 miles with a vertical gain of more than one million feet. A few years later, she left her job, her marriage, and a dissatisfied life and walked back into those mountains. In her new memoir, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home, Heather, whose trail name...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Annie Smith Peck is one of the most accomplished women of the twentieth century that you have never heard of. Peck was a scholar, educator, writer, lecturer, mountain climber, suffragist, and political activist. She was a feminist and an independent thinker who refused to let gender stereotypes stand in her way. Peck gained fame in 1895 when she first climbed the Matterhorn at the age of forty-five - not for her daring alpine feat, but because she...
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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Former Navy rescue swimmer Brian Dickinson was roughly 1,000 feet from the summit of Mount Everest-also known as "the death zone"-when his Sherpa became ill and had to turn back, leaving Brian with a difficult decision: should he continue to push for the summit, or head back down the mountain? After carefully weighing the options, Brian decided to continue toward the summit- alone . Four hours later, Brian solo summited the highest peak in the world....
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Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
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"One slip, one false move, one missed toehold, and you're dead. Alex Honnold, the #1 free solo climber in the world, chose the route known as Freerider on Yosemite's El Capitan, a series of pitches so hard that it's newsworthy when someone free climbs it with a rope. No one had ever 'free soloed' it before; only a few people have ever even contemplated it. That four-hour climb on June 3, 2017, was, simply, one of the boldest feats in human history....
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Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Alice Loudon has the perfect life: a loving boyfriend, an interesting job, and trusted friends. But it all comes crashing down when she locks eyes with Adam Tallis, a striking mountain climber in a black leather jacket. The chemistry between them ignites an intense, obsessive love affair that drives her to impulsively abandon her old life and marry this charismatic stranger. As long as Adam and Alice are alone, their passion supersedes any doubts...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Partners, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Admired by millions as the star of Man vs. Wild and the acclaimed NGC series Running Wild, global adventurer Bear Grylls has explored places few would dare to go. Now, he shares time-honored lessons for leading an adventurous life through stories drawn from his personal experiences, as well as encounters with a diverse group of celebrities who have participated in his wildly popular television shows. In these inspiring pages, Grylls chronicles his...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013.
Description
In The Mountain, veteran world-class climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs-the only American to have climbed all fourteen of the world's 8,000-meter peaks-trains his sights on Mount Everest in richly detailed accounts of expeditions that are by turns personal, harrowing, deadly, and inspiring.
The highest mountain on earth, Everest remains the ultimate goal for serious high-altitude climbers. Viesturs has gone on eleven expeditions to Everest,...
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Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2018
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Floundering in her second career, the one she's always wanted, forty-eight year old Cheryl Suchors resolves that midlife success depends on hiking the highest of the grueling White Mountains in New Hampshire. All forty-eight of them. Never mind her fear of heights. In the ten years it ultimately takes her to achieve this goal, she endures injuries, novice mistakes, and the heartbreaking loss of a best friend. When breast cancer threatens her own life,...
15) Paths of glory
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This real-life mountaineering mystery recounts the story of Britain's George Mallory and his attempt to scale Mt. Everest.
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Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: he will fly a plane from England to Everest, crash-land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit--all utterly alone. Wilson doesn't know how to climb. He barely knows how to fly. But he has the right plane, the right equipment, and...
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A hundred-year mystery lured veteran climber Mark Synnott, along with his friend Renan Ozturk, a filmmaker using drones, into an unlikely expedition up Mount Everest during the spring 2019 season that came to be known as "the Year Everest Broke." What he found was a gripping human story of impassioned characters from around the globe and a mountain that will consume your soul--and your life--if you let it. The mystery? On June 8, 1924, George Mallory...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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"Join Nepalese climber Nimsdai Purja as he recounts his journey to scale all 8,000 meter "Death Zone" mountains in seven months. In this action-packed memoir, young readers will not only learn how Nimsdai physically accomplished this incredible feat, but also how his attitude, leadership skills, and willingness to learn from mistakes took him to the top. From his childhood growing up in Nepal, to a career as an elite soldier in the British army, Nimsdai...
20) Above all things
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Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Blending historical facts with imaginative fiction, interweaves the story of George Mallory's ill-fated 1924 attempt to be the first man to conquer Mount Everest and a single day in the life of his wife as she waits at home in England for news of his return.