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To the Top: The Story of Everest
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Stephen Venables
This historical overview of mountain climbing concentrates on the climbing and exploration of Mount Everest--the world's tallest peak. The author is a professional climber who himself conquered Everest in 1988. Illustrated with photographs and maps.
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A Slender Thread
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Everest: Alone at the Summit, (a Survival Story)
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Stephen Venables, Clint Willis (Introduction by)
Venables shares this rousing account of his 1988 climb of the East Face of Mount Everest, where he led three unknown American climbers up a sheer avalanche-swept wall of snow and ice -- without a supply of oxygen. Photos.
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Lost Mountains: Two Expeditions to Kashmir
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In this age of commercially guided expeditions and vacationing hordes in the Himalaya, Stephen Venables, a member of climbing's greatest generation (and the first Briton to summit Everest without oxygen), still seeks out climbing's loneliest and most difficult challenges. In addition to his tremendously accomplished mountaineering career and his ...
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A Slender Thread: Escaping Disaster in the Himalayas
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Stephen Venables, Clint Willis (Introduction by)
"A Slender Thread" tells the gripping tale of an accomplished climber's against-all-odds survival after a near-fatal plunge off one of the world's highest mountains. Premiering in February, Venable will be appearing in an IMAX film recreating Shackleton's heroic climb on South Georgia Island. 16 photos.
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Ollie: The True Story of a Brief and Courageous Life
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Stephen Venables
An exceptionally moving story about a courageous autistic boy, and the effect he had on all who knew him, written by his father, a successful mountaineer. " Like the swallows, Ollie came in the spring and left in the autumn. Dancing, singing, swooping -- there was something birdlike about his energy, joy and laughter -- but also the fleeting, ...
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Island at the Edge of the World: A South Georgia Odyssey
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Stephen Venables
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Painted Mountains: Two Expeditions to Kashmir
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Stephen Venables
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Voices from the Mountains: 40 True-Life Stores of Unforgettable Adventure, Drama, and Human Endurance
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Stephen Venables, Sir Chris Bonington (Foreword by)
Compelling narratives by adventurers who have scaled the world's most challenging mountains--featuring unforgettable drama, and tales of human endurance.
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Everest : Kangshung face
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Stephen Venables
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Himalaya Alpine Style: The Most Challenging Routes on the Highest Peaks
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Andy Fanshawe, Stephen Venables
Banff Book Festival Grand Prize Winner. Through in-depth text and remarkable color photographs, this large-format collector's edition explores an alpine-style approach to climbing the legendary peaks of the Himalaya & Karakoram.
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Ollie: The Inspiring Story of a Special Child
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Stephen Venables
An exceptionally moving story about a courageous autistic boy, and the effect he had on all who knew him, written by his father, a successful mountaineer. "Like the swallows, Ollie came in the spring and left in the autumn. Dancing, singing, swooping -- there was something birdlike about his energy, joy and laughter -- but also the fleeting, ...
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Higher Than the Eagle Soars: A Path to Everest
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Higher Than the Eagle Soars distills "the intense essence" of his Everest climb, concentrating on the drama of the final climb and nightmarish descent. It is an intimate and epic account of an event that confirmed Venables as the greatest British climber of his generation. Although Everest wasn't the end of my climbing career, it was a big turning ...
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M for mountains : facts and stories from the summits of the world.
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Stephen Venables
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First Ascent: Pioneering Mountain Climbs
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Stephen Venables, Chris Bonington (Foreword by)
First hand accounts and archival photos chronicle the first ascent of 24 of the world's most daunting mountains and traces the development of climbing styles and technology. It includes ascents made between 1865 and 2005 and all types of mountaineering.
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Higher Than the Eagle Soars
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Higher Than the Eagle Soars distills "the intense essence" of his Everest climb, concentrating on the drama of the final climb and nightmarish descent. It is an intimate and epic account of an event that confirmed Venables as the greatest British climber of his generation. Although Everest wasn't the end of my climbing career, it was a big turning ...
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Meetings with mountains
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Bis Ans Limit
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Volker; Baufeldt Eidems, Stephanie; Venables, Stephen; Hoppe, Annette
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