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The green horse : my early years in the Canadian rockies : a park wardens story
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ISBN: 9781771602273 1771602279 9781771602266 1771602260 Year: 2017 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : RMB,

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Inner ranges
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ISBN: 9781771602884 1771602880 9781771602877 1771602872 Year: 2018 Publisher: [Victoria, British Columbia]

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Groot handboek bergsport : van bergwandelen tot expeditieklimmen
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ISBN: 9789044725261 Year: 2011 Publisher: Aartselaar Deltas

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Het Groot handboek bergsport is een ambitieus en uitermate compleet werk voor iedereen die de rotsen en bergen van deze wereld wil trotseren, van de beginnende bergwandelaar tot de doorgewinterde alpinist. Werkelijk elk aspect van deze fantastische en tot de verbeelding sprekende sport komt in dit ultieme naslagwerk aan bod, waaronder: - Bergwandelen en trekking - de basics, van het op de juiste manier inpakken van de rugzak en het opzetten van de tent tot de weersomstandigheden in de bergen en kaartlezen - Rotsklimmen - van veilige zekertechnieken tot big wall-klimmen - Winterklimmen - van het voorspellen van sneeuwstormen tot het kiezen van de geschikte stijgijzers en ijsklimmen - Alpinisme - van de etiquette in de berghut tot het belang van snel klimmen op langere routes - Toerskiën en sneeuwschoenwandelen - van het kiezen van de juiste ski's tot het zoeken naar de beste sneeuw - Expedities naar afgelegen gebieden - financiering en vergunningen, het selecteren van gidsen en dragers, en de talrijke uitdagingen onderweg. Auteur en IFMGA-gids Alun Richardson bundelt in dit unieke werk meer dan twintig jaar aan kennis en ervaring en brengt deze schat aan informatie op een persoonlijke en vlot leesbare manier over. Dit alles wordt verduidelijkt aan de hand van meer dan 200 technische tekeningen en een reeks inspirerende foto's van de meest indrukwekkende bergen ter wereld. Opmerkelijk handboek over de bergsport waarin letterlijk alle facetten van deze sport aan bod komen. Behandeld worden bergwandelen en trekking, rotsklimmen, winterklimmen, alpinisme, toerskiën en sneeuwschoenwandelen en expedities naar afgelegen gebieden. De auteur heeft op alle gebieden waarover hij schrijft, zelf veel ervaring. Hij heeft een ongelofelijke hoeveelheid zinnige en ter zake kundige info in een boek bijeen weten te vergaren. Er staan bovendien veel tips van gediplomeerde berggidsen in. Niet alleen de technische kant komt aan bod, maar ook de mentale de de ethische. Een van de weinige minpuntjes: Engelsen hanteren in sommige gevallen andere klim- en veiligheidstechnieken dan bij de Nederlandse bergsportvereniging gangbaar is. Elke bergsporter, ongeacht de tak van de bergsport die hij beoefent, kan veel van dit boek leren. Geïllustreerd met veel kleurenfoto's en zwart-wittekeningen.


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Mountains of the mind : a history of a fascination
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ISBN: 9781847080394 Year: 2008 Publisher: London : Granta Books,


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Northern exposures
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ISBN: 160223194X 9781602231948 9781602231931 Year: 2013 Publisher: Fairbanks, Alaska

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"Waterman's profound respect for the northern lands burns on every page, and his photos and essays prove to us that there is still beauty in this world-beauty worth fighting for."-Robert RedfordNorth of the sixtieth parallel, the sun shines for less than six hours in the winter, and towering mountains are the only skyscrapers. Pristine waters serve caribou, moose, and bears in an unbroken landscape. At any given moment in this spectacular scenery, there's a chance that Jonathan Waterman is present, trekking across the land. A masterful adventurer, Waterman has spent decades exploring the farth


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"Mountain of destiny" : Nanga Parbat and its path into the German imagination
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ISBN: 1782047069 1571139583 Year: 2016 Publisher: Rochester, NY : Boydell & Brewer,

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Never has a mountain occupied the German imagination longer and more thoroughly than Nanga Parbat (8,125m), the world's ninth-highest peak, located in the extreme western part of the Himalaya chain inpresent-day Pakistan. Repeatedly referred to in the 1930s as the German "mountain of destiny," over a period of roughly two decades from 1932 to 1953 Nanga Parbat became not only the destination of six German mountaineering expeditions, but also the quintessential German "mountain of the mind" onto whose slopes German mountaineers, mountaineering officials, politicians, writers, and filmmakers projected some of the most pressing social, political, and cultural concerns of their times. This book is a detailed study of that process: of the initial motivations of post-World War I mountaineers for attempting to scale one of the tallest mountains in the world, of the appropriation of this epic mountaineering challenge by National Socialism, of the reappropriation of the Nanga Parbat project during the early years of the German Federal Republic. And most important - since to date such an approach is almost completely absent from existing studies of Himalaya mountaineering of this era - it is a study of the means and mechanisms, the texts and contexts employed for communicating these high-altitude mountaineering exploits to the German public and thereby inscribing Nanga Parbat into the German imagination.

Harald Höbusch is Associate Professor of German and Associate Chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Kentucky.


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Himalayan dreaming : Australian mountaineering in the great ranges of Asia, 1922-1990
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ISBN: 9781921666179 Year: 2010 Publisher: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : The Australian National University,

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How did climbers from the world’s flattest, hottest continent become world-class Himalayan mountaineers, the equal of any elite mountaineer from countries with long climbing traditions and home ranges that make Australia’s highest summit look like a suburban hill? This book tells the story of Australian mountaineering in the great ranges of Asia, from the exploits of a brash, young colonial with an early British Himalayan expedition in the 1920s to the coming of age of Australian climbers in the 1980s. The story goes beyond the two remarkable Australian ascents of Mt Everest in 1984 and 1988 to explore the exploits of Australian climbers in the far-flung corners of the high Himalaya. Above all, the book presents a glimpse into the lives – the successes, failures, tragedies, motivations, fears, conflicts, humor, and compassion – themselves to the ultimate limits of survival in the most spectacular and demanding mountain arena of all.


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Lawrence Grassi
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ISBN: 1442617098 9781442617094 9781442648494 144264849X 9781442626249 1442626240 1442617101 Year: 2015 Publisher: Toronto

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The definitive biography of this Canadian mountain hero, Lawrence Grassi will be essential reading for those interested in the history of immigration, sport, and the Rocky Mountains.


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Alpine warriors
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ISBN: 9781771601108 1771601108 9781771601115 1771601116 9781771601092 1771601094 9781771601092 Year: 2015 Publisher: Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books,


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The Glacier Park reader
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ISBN: 9781607815891 1607815893 9781607815884 1607815885 Year: 2017 Publisher: Salt Lake City

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