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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.
Alpinisten --- Alpinistes --- Bergbeklimmers --- Climbers [Mountain ] --- Escaladeurs de rocher --- Glaciairistes --- Glaciéristes --- Mountain climbers --- Mountaineers --- Pyrénéistes --- Rochassiers --- Rock climbers --- Varappeurs --- Bergsport --- Bergsport. --- Mountaineering --- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Philosophical anthropology --- Affective and dynamic functions --- Mountaineering --- Mountaineers --- Alpinisme --- Alpinistes --- Psychological aspects --- History. --- Aspect psychologique --- Histoire --- -Mountaineering --- -Mountaineers --- 158 --- Climbers, Mountain --- Mountain climbers --- Rock climbers --- Athletes --- Climbing mountains --- Mountain climbing --- Hiking --- Outdoor life --- History
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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
Conservationists -- Arctic regions -- Biography. --- Mountaineers -- Arctic regions -- Biography. --- Travel photography -- Arctic regions. --- Travel writing -- Arctic regions. --- Waterman, Jonathan. --- Mountaineers --- Conservationists --- Travel writing --- Travel photography --- Social Sciences --- Recreation & Sports --- Photography --- Outdoor photography --- Travel --- Authorship --- Environmentalists --- Climbers, Mountain --- Mountain climbers --- Rock climbers --- Athletes
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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.
Mountaineering --- Mountaineers --- Climbers, Mountain --- Mountain climbers --- Rock climbers --- Athletes --- Climbing mountains --- Mountain climbing --- Hiking --- Outdoor life --- History --- Nanga Parbat (Pakistan) --- Diamir (Pakistan) --- Diyamir (Pakistan) --- Nanga Parbat (India) --- Nangaparbat Peak (Pakistan) --- Himalaya Mountains --- German geography. --- German studies. --- Great War. --- Modern and Classical Languages. --- World War I. --- World War II. --- capitalism. --- democracy. --- dictatorship. --- history of Germany. --- mountains. --- socialism. --- twentieth century Germany.
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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.
Mountaineering --- Mountaineers --- History. --- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) --- Climbers, Mountain --- Mountain climbers --- Rock climbers --- Athletes --- Climbing mountains --- Mountain climbing --- Hiking --- Outdoor life --- Cho-mo-lung-ma (China and Nepal) --- Chomolungma (China and Nepal) --- Chu-mu-lang-ma Feng (China and Nepal) --- Mount Everest (China and Nepal) --- Mount Qomolangma (China and Nepal) --- Mount Quomolangma (China and Nepal) --- Qomolangma Feng (China and Nepal) --- Quomolangma Feng (China and Nepal) --- Sagarmāthā (China and Nepal) --- Sheng-mu-Feng (China and Nepal) --- Himalaya Mountains
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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.
Italian Canadians --- Mountaineers --- Climbers, Mountain --- Mountain climbers --- Rock climbers --- Athletes --- Canadians of Italian ancestry --- Canadians of Italian ethnic origin --- Canadians of Italian origin --- Canadians --- European Canadians --- Italians --- Grassi, Lawrence, --- Rocky Mountains, Canadian (B.C. and Alta.) --- Canmore (Alta.) --- Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.) --- Canmore, Alta. --- Canadian Rocky Mountains (B.C. and Alta.) --- Rocheuses canadiennes (B.C. and Alta.) --- Rockies, Canadian (B.C. and Alta.) --- Rocky Mountains --- Rocky Mountains, Canadian
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Mountaineering --- Mountaineers --- Recreation & Sports --- Social Sciences --- Climbers, Mountain --- Mountain climbers --- Rock climbers --- Athletes --- Climbing mountains --- Mountain climbing --- Hiking --- Outdoor life --- History --- History. --- Slovenia. --- Eslovènia --- L.R.S. --- Ljudska republika Slovenija --- LRS --- People's Republic of Slovenia --- Republic of Slovenia --- Republika Slovenija --- S.R.S. --- S.R. Slovenija --- Slovenii͡ --- Slovenija --- Slowenien --- Socialist Republic of Slovenia --- Socialistična republika Slovenija --- Socijalistička Republika Slovenija --- SR Slovenija --- SRS --- Szlovénia
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Animals --- Mountaineers --- Indians of North America --- Tales --- Folk tales --- Folktales --- Folk literature --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Climbers, Mountain --- Mountain climbers --- Rock climbers --- Athletes --- Animal kingdom --- Beasts --- Fauna --- Native animals --- Native fauna --- Wild animals --- Wildlife --- Organisms --- Human-animal relationships --- Zoology --- Folklore. --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Glacier National Park (Mont.) --- Glacier Park (Mont.) --- Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park (Mont. and Alta.) --- History.
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