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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
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Jon Krakauer (Introduction by)
In 1996, on a magazine assignment, Krakauer joined an expedition up Mount Everest led by the New Zealand climber Rob Hall. He arrived at the summit just before a blizzard struck in which Hall and nine other climbers were killed. This book is Krakauer's first-person account of the tragedy.
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Black Order
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James Rollins
From the frozen peaks of the Himalayas to the diamond fields of the Congo, the SIGMA Force races to unlock a riddle locked amid cryptic runes and expose a century-old plot that threatens to destroy the current world order and alter the destiny of humankind forever. Smart and wildly entertaining.--"Chicago Sun-Times."
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The Snow Leopard
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Peter Matthiessen
Author Matthiessen documents his travels in Nepal with naturalist George Schaller, including his attempts to come to grips with his wife's death from cancer, and his general pondering of questions of life and death. The snow leopard becomes a symbol to Matthiessen of the elusive silence of the peace of Zen.
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Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
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Anatoli Boukreev, G Weston Dewalt
Boukreev was the mountain guide for the Mt. Everest tragedy made famous in Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air." Here, he retells the events from his point of view and defends himself against damning allegations in Krakauer's book.
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Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
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Seaborn Beck Weathers, Stephen G Michaud
In this memoir, a survivor of the climb chronicled in Jon Krakauer's bestselling INTO THIN AIR tells of his single minded pursuit of the sport of mountaineering and its effect on his family, and of his recovery from the tragic experience, in which he lost both hands to frostbite.
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Annapurna
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Maurice Herzog
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Within Reach: My Everest Story
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Mark Pfetzer
The world's most famous teenage mountain climber offers an extraordinary account of his ascent up Mount Everest--as the youngest climber ever to attempt the feat. Photos.
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Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory and Irvine
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Jochen Hemmleb, Larry A Johnson, Eric R Simonson
Climbers George Mallory and Sandy Irvine disappeared during a 1924 ascent of Mount Everest. Jochen Hemmleb, who had a long fascination with this case, planned the expedition that eventually, in 1999, discovered the body of Mallory. In GHOSTS OF EVEREST he retells the Mallory story and weighs, in detail, arguments on both sides of the debate of ...
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Windhorse Woman: A Marriage of Spirit
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Lynn V Andrews
From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Woman and Ceystal, here is the visionary autobiography that began in Medicine Woman. Andrews offers essential lessons about love and unity that will readers forge their own visions and lives.
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Tintin in Tibet
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Herge
Tintin searches the mountains of Nepal and Tibet for his friend, victim of an airplane crash.
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Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest
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Jamling Tenzing Norgay, Broughton Coburn
Here a Tibetan sherpa, the son of the sherpa who was the first to successfully climb Mount Everest in 1953, shares his perspective on the 1996 much-talked-about tragedy on Mount Everest, where he assisted the team that filmed their own ascent. He discusses that storied climb, along with the details of his father's earlier climb, offering a Tibetan ...
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Everest: Mountain Without Mercy
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Broughton Coburn, Tim Cahill (Introduction by), David Breashears (Afterword by)
A filmmaker and veteran climber, David Breashears led the May 1996 expedition that captured Everest in a large-format IMAX motion picture. "Everest" is the breathtaking chronicle of a filmmaking expedition turned rescue mission. 125 stunning, full-color images, including IMAX frames from the film.
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Everest: The West Ridge
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Thomas F Hornbein
In one of mountaineering's great-st adventure stories, Thomas Hombein tells of his and Willi Unsoeld's dramatic first ascent of Everest's West Ridge -- a route that had been dismissed as hopeless by all previous expeditions. Part of the first successful American expedition, Hombein and Unsoeld ascended beyond "the point of no return" to make the ...
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Into Thin Air
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Jon Krakauer
In 1996, on a magazine assignment, Krakauer joined an expedition up Mount Everest led by the New Zealand climber Rob Hall. He arrived at the summit just before a blizzard struck in which Hall and nine other climbers were killed. This book is Krakauer's first-person account of the tragedy.
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Annapurna: A Woman's Place
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Arlene Blum
In August 1978, thirteen women left San Francisco for the Nepal Himalaya to make history as the first Americans--and the first women--to scale the treacherous slopes of Annapurna I, the world's tenth highest peak. Expedition leader Arlene Blum here tells their dramatic story: the logistical problems, storms, and hazardous ice climbing; the ...
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Annapurna: The Epic Account of a Himalayan Conquest and Its Harrowing Aftermath
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Maurice Herzog, Nea Morin (Translator), Janet Adam Smith (Translator)
Z99 grit and courage members of the French Alpine Club face frostbite snow blindness and near death to reach the summit of the uncharted 26493-foot Himalayan peak Annapurna
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The Kid Who Climbed Everest: The Incredible Story of a 23-Year-Old's Summit of Mt. Everest
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Bear Grylls
Author featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show Click here to view the author's interview with Oprah. THE KID WHO CLIMBED EVEREST is a tale of courage and determination. Bear's quest for funding for his expedition, his seventy days on Everest's southeast face, and a narrow brush with death after a fall into a crevasse at nineteen thousand feet, make ...
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The Cobra King of Kathmandu
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Philip Kerr
In the third book of the bestselling Children of the Lamp series, djinn twins, John and Philippa Gaunt, are on the trail of another magical mystery. As they travel from New York to London to Nepal and India on a whirlwind adventure, the twins try to help their friend and fellow djinn, Buck, find out who murdered his friend using the venomous ...
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The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mount Everest
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Conrad Anker
This memoir by mountain climber Conrad Anker tells how he discovered the body of long-lost climber George Mallory, who had disappeared, with his partner Sandy Irvine, during a 1924 ascent of Mount Everest. Anker's memoir is balanced with a parallel narrative by David Roberts, which tells the story of Mallory's expedition. The question of how and ...
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High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2
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Clint Willis (Introduction by)
In the first anthology ever to focus exclusively on the two highest, most formidable mountains in the world--Everest and K2--Willis presents 75 years of great writing, from Neil O'Dell to Jon Krakauer. 18 photos.
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Massacre at the Palace: The Doomed Royal Dynasty of Nepal
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Jonathan Gregson
With unique access, Gregson has written a stunning investigative account--an intimate glimpse into a troubled monarchy and Nepal, a nation in turmoil. photos.
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Kapilavastu
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Osamu Tezuka
"Tezuka, the master of Japanese comics, mixes his own characters with history as deftly as he transfers the most profound, complex emotions onto extremely cartoony characters, and his work defies easy categorization."--"Publishers Weekly."
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Peak
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Roland Smith
The emotional, tension-filled story of a 14-year-old boy's attempt to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest is an action-packed adventure about friendship, sacrifice, family and the drive to take on Everest, despite the incredible risk.
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A Life on the Edge: Memoirs of Everest and Beyond
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Jim Whittaker, Edward M Kennedy, Senator (Foreword by), John Glenn (Foreword by)
At 70 years old, Jim Whittaker looks back on a life characterized by risk-taking and adventure. He was the first American to climb Mount Everest, as well as a number of other towering and challenging peaks. Whittaker also started the hugely successful REI, Inc., a retail outlet providing recreational gear and apparel. Robert F. Kennedy considered ...
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The crystal horizon : Everest-the first solo ascent
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Reinhold Messner
On August 20, 1980, Reinhold Messner, the world-renowned master of alpine-style climbing, became the first person to reach the summit of Everest solo and without supplemental oxygen. A vivid account of the expedition, "The Crystal Horizon" also reflects on how he explored his innermost thoughts while facing the most extreme physical challenge he ...
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