Sports & Recreation:

Into Thin Air
A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Written by Jon Krakauer

Format: Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $7.99

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing... Read more >

Himalayan Quest
Ed Viesturs Summits All Fourteen 8,000-Meter Giants
Written by Peter Potterfield
Photographed by Ed Viesturs
Introduction by David Breashears

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $21.95

Now updated to include the triumphant culmination of a monumental quest—to stand on the summits of all fourteen of the world’s highest mountains—Himalayan Quest offers an unforgettable glimpse into the remarkable world of Ed Viesturs, America’s best-known high altitude climber, and the breathtaking landscape in which he works. It is an... Read more >

Near Death in the Mountains
True Stories of Disaster and Survival
Edited by Cecil Kuhne

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $14.95

“He wrapped the rope around his body, got ready to rappel and leaned back. Standing about five feet from him, I heard a sharp scraping, Suddenly Ed was flying. I could see him fall, wordless, fifty feet free, then strike the steep ice below…he was sliding and bouncing down. He passed... Read more >

No Shortcuts to the Top
Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
Written by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2007
Price: $14.95

This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.

For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to... Read more >

Miracle in the Andes
72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Written by Nando Parrado and Vince Rause

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2007
Price: $14.00

In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.

Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and supporters, to an exhibition game in Chile had crashed... Read more >

No Shortcuts to the Top
Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
Written by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $23.95

This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.

For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to...

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No Shortcuts to the Top
Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
Written by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts
Read by Ed Viesturs

Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $29.95

This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.

For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to... Read more >

No Shortcuts to the Top
Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
Written by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts
Read by Ed Viesturs

Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $15.00

This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.

For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to... Read more >

No Shortcuts to the Top
Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
Written by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts

Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $14.95

This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.

For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to... Read more >

Miracle in the Andes
72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Written by Nando Parrado and Vince Rause
Read by Josh Davis

Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $29.95

In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.

Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and supporters, to an exhibition game in Chile had crashed... Read more >

Miracle in the Andes
72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Written by Nando Parrado and Vince Rause
Read by Josh Davis

Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $20.00

In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.

Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and supporters, to an exhibition game in Chile had crashed... Read more >

Miracle in the Andes
72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Written by Nando Parrado

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $14.00

In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.

Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and supporters, to an exhibition game in Chile had crashed... Read more >

Big Open
On Foot Across Tibert's Chang Tang
Written by Rick Ridgeway
Photographed by Galen Rowell
Foreword by Conrad Anker

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2005
Price: $14.00

On foot and on their own, four adventurers brave the challenges of nature on a 275-mile trek through one of the most beautiful—and most remote—regions of the world. Read more >

Mountains of the Mind
Adventures in Reaching the Summit
Written by Robert Macfarlane

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2004
Price: $14.95

Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert McFarlane reveals how the mystery of the world’s highest places has came to grip the Western imagination—and perennially draws legions of adventurers up the most perilous slopes.
His story begins three centuries ago, when... Read more >

Fellowship of Ghosts
A Journey Through the Mountains of Norway
Written by Paul Watkins

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2004
Price: $24.00

Acclaimed writer Paul Watkins describes his spellbinding solo trek through the wilds of Norway's Rondane and Jutunheimen mountains—grand but harsh landscapes where myth and reality meet. His adventure takes him through valleys bordered by thousand-foot cliffs, roaring waterfalls wreathed in rainbows, blinding glaciers, and shimmering blue snowfields. Yet this is also... Read more >

Big Open
On Foot Across Tibet's Chang Tang
Written by Rick Ridgeway
Photographed by Galen Rowell
Foreword by Conrad Anker

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: May 18, 2004
Price: $26.00

On foot and on their own, four adventurers brave the challenges of nature on a 275-mile trek through one of the most beautiful—and most remote—regions of the world. Read more >

Tenzing
Hero of Everest
Written by Ed Douglas

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2004
Price: $15.00

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Everest
Mountain Without Mercy
Written by Broughton Coburn
Afterword by David Breashears
Introduction by Tim Cahill

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2003
Price: $24.00

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Himalayan Quest
Ed Viesturs on the 8,000-Meter Giants
Written by Ed Viesturs and Peter Potterfield

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2003
Price: $32.00

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Over the Edge
The True Story of Four American Climbers' Kidnap and Escape in the Mountains of Central Asia
Written by Greg Child
Read by Aramand Schultz

Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 2, 2002
Price: $12.50

“The climbers swept up in the events of August 2000 are people little different from the rest of us. Though their climbing skills taught them a thing or two about survival, it was their individual characters and their compassion for one another that kept them alive. Like anyone who has witnessed... Read more >

Left for Dead
My Journey Home from Everest
Written by Beck Weathers

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 21, 2000
Price: $7.99

I am neither churchly nor a particularly spiritual person, but I can tell you that some force within me rejected death at the last moment and then guided me, blind and stumbling—quite literally a dead man walking—into camp and the shaky start of my return to life.

On May 10, 1996... Read more >

Into Thin Air

Written by Jon Krakauer
Read by Jon Krakauer

Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 4, 2000
Price: $14.98

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing... Read more >