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The Call of Everest
The History, Science, and Future of the World's Tallest Peak
Written by Conrad Anker
Contribution by Bernadette McDonald
Foreword by Thomas Hornbein

Format: eBook, 275 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $28.00

Gripping and sumptuous, this is the definitive book on the history, mystique, and science of Mount Everest, including how climate change is impacting the world's tallest mountain. 
 
In 1963, the American Mount Everest Expedition made mountaineering history. It was the first American venture to successfully scale the legendary peak and the... Read more >

The Call of Everest
The History, Science, and Future of the World's Tallest Peak
Written by Conrad Anker, Bernadette McDonald, David Breashears and Broughton Coburn
Foreword by Thomas Hornbein

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $35.00

Gripping and sumptuous, this is the definitive book on the history, mystique, and science of Mount Everest, including how climate change is impacting the world's tallest mountain. 
 
In 1963, the American Mount Everest Expedition made mountaineering history. It was the first American venture to successfully scale the legendary peak and the... Read more >

Fall of the Phantom Lord
Climbing and the Face of Fear
Edited by Andrew Todhunter

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2013
Price: $11.99

In 1989, while attempting a new route on a difficult overhanging rock face, climber Dan Osman fell. Again and again, protected by the rope, he fell. He decided then that it would not be in climbing but in falling that he would embrace his fear--bathe in it, as he says, and... Read more >

The Ledge
An Inspirational Story of Friendship and Survival
Written by Jim Davidson and Kevin Vaughan

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2013
Price: $16.00

“The authors bring extreme climbing to life. . . . Perhaps no author can rationalize why some choose to risk their lives . . . for the thrill of conquering a mountain. The Ledge comes perilously close and tells a ripping true story at the same time.”—The Denver Post
 
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The Will to Climb
Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak
Written by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $15.00

As a high school student, Ed Viesturs read and was captivated by the French climber Maurice Herzog's famous and grisly account of the first ascent of Annapurna in 1950. When he began his own campaign to climb the world's 14 highest peaks in the late 1980s, Viesturs looked forward with trepidation...

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The Will to Climb
Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak
Written by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $26.00

The bestselling author of No Shortcuts to the Top and K2 chronicles his three attempts to climb the world's tenth-highest and statistically deadliest peak, Annapurna in the Himalaya, while exploring the dramatic and tragic history of others who have made -- or attempted – the ascent, and what these exploits teach... Read more >

The Will to Climb
Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak
Written by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $9.99

The bestselling author of No Shortcuts to the Top and K2 chronicles his three attempts to climb the world's tenth-highest and statistically deadliest peak, Annapurna in the Himalaya, while exploring the dramatic and tragic history of others who have made -- or attempted – the ascent, and what these exploits teach... Read more >

The Will to Climb
Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak
Written by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts
Read by Fred Sanders

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $20.00

The bestselling author of No Shortcuts to the Top and K2 chronicles his three attempts to climb the world's tenth-highest and statistically deadliest peak, Annapurna in the Himalaya, while exploring the dramatic and tragic history of others who have made -- or attempted – the ascent, and what these exploits teach... Read more >

The Ledge
An Inspirational Story of Friendship and Survival
Written by Jim Davidson and Kevin Vaughan

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: July 26, 2011
Price: $11.99

“The authors bring extreme climbing to life. . . . Perhaps no author can rationalize why some choose to risk their lives . . . for the thrill of conquering a mountain. The Ledge comes perilously close and tells a ripping true story at the same time.”—The Denver Post
 
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Near Death in the Mountains
True Stories of Disaster and Survival
Edited by Cecil Kuhne

Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: May 18, 2011
Price: $11.99

“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 >

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: $16.00

“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 >

Cherry
A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Written by Sara Wheeler

Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99

Apsley Cherry-Garrard was one of the youngest members of Robert Falcon Scott’s legendary expedition to Antarctica, the last man sent out to meet Captain Scott and his men in February 1912, when they were expected to return victorious any day from the South Pole. He embarked on his own epic journey... 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: $14.99

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: $11.99

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 >

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: $17.95

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 >

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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