Touching the Void and Touching Cloth. A fast moving non nonsense account of Joe Simpson's hell in Peru. Skillfully penned and remarkably forthcoming about the demons he faced then and now as...
Reticent and Revealing. Though far from conventional it is pleasing, after a couple of years with conceptual winners, to have the 2008 Boardman Tasker Award presented to an uncomplicated cli...
"No Western climber or even any Sherpas had been this high, so far this year. We were treading on virgin territory on the ever-changing surface of the glacier. The excitement welled up,...
Unputdownable. This is now in my top 5 books of all time, I bought the book as I had just climbed my first mountain(not a very high one) and was now thinking of bigger and better! After read...
In The Beckoning Silence, climber Joe Simpson, author of the bestselling Touching the Void, recounts how his mountain dreams became shadowed by the deaths of friends and heroes, and hampered...
Robert Macfarlane's Mountains of the Mind is the most interesting of the crop of books published to mark the 50th anniversary of the first successful ascent of Everest. Macfarlane is both a ...
'The' pocket guide to Africa's great white mountain. Stedman's trekking guide to Kilimanjaro really is a gem of a guide. It provides just about all the information you might need to help you...
Mountian Biking Masterclass. This is a truly excellent, informative book. The comments made by some reviewers about the trendy language are perhaps justified but you soon find your way throu...
Rock Climbing. If ever there was a book that could be classed as the industry standard climbing book, then this is it. The official handbook of the mountaineering instructor and single pitc...
Learning to breathe - FANTASTIC!. My mother-in-law recommended this book and I was a bit sceptical. However it is absolutely brilliant! I laughed & cried. A really honest account. I couldn't...
