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Price: $26.00
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Sale: $13.79
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Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Nick Heil
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Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 796.522095496
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Publication Date: 2008-04-29
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: The inside story of the deadly 2006 climbing season on Everest On May 15, 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit. A week later, Lincoln Hall, a seasoned Australian climber, was left for dead near the same spot. Hall’s death was reported around the world, but the next day he was found alive after spending the night on the upper mountain with no food and no shelter. If David Sharp’s death was shocking, it was hardly singular: despite unusually good weather, ten others died attempting to reach the summit that year. In this meticulous inquiry into what went wrong, Nick Heil tells the full story of the deadliest year on Everest since the infamous season of 1996. He introduces Russell Brice, the commercial operator who has done more than anyone to provide access to the summit via the mountain’s north side—and who some believe was partly accountable for Sharp’s death. As more climbers attempt the summit each year, Heil shows how increasingly risky expeditions and unscrupulous outfitters threaten to turn Everest into a deadly circus. Written by an experienced climber and outdoor writer, Dark Summit is both a riveting account of a notorious climbing season and a troubling investigation into whether the pursuit of the ultimate mountaineering prize has spiraled out of control. |
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $10.25
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Manufacturer: Hyperion
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Michael Kodas
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Publisher: Hyperion
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Dewey Decimal Number: 796.522
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Publication Date: 2008-02-05
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: In the years following the publication of Into Thin Air, much has changed on Mount Everest. Among all the books documenting the glorious adventures in mountains around the world, and the unique perils and challenges of Mount Everest, none details how the recent infusion of wealth into the mountains is reacting with the age-old lust for glory to draw crime to the highest places on the planet, how a mountain's ability to reduce climbers to their essential selves is revealing villains as well as heroes, greed as well as selflessness. The change is caused both by a tremendous boom in traffic to the world's mountains and a new class of parasitic and predatory adventurer. Some of the stories included in the book are the tragic story of Nils Antezana, a climber who died on Everest after he was abandoned by his guide, and the author's own summit story, as he participated in the Connecticut Everest Expedition, which would never have followed George Dijjmarescu and Lhakpa Sherpa to the Himalaya had news of the couple's climb with the Romanian team the previous year made it to the United States. But as they neared the frigid peril of Everest, the charming couple turned increasingly hostile. Women on the team held little power and were instead threatened, stalked, and harassed before a final assault. Those that tried to stand against the violence, theft and intimidation found the worst of the peril they encountered on Everest had followed them home to Connecticut. Beatings, thefts, drugs, prostitution, coercion, threats, and abandonment on the highest slopes of Everest and other mountains have become the rule rather than the exception, and Kodas describes many of these experiences and explores the larger issues these stories raise with thriller-like intensity.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $9.51
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Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Perfect Paperback
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Author: Peter Bronski
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Publisher: The Lyons Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 796.522097475
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Publication Date: 2008-02-26
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: In the tradition of Eiger Dreams, In the Zone: Epic Survival Stories from the Mountaineering World, and Not Without Peril, comes a new book that examines the thrills and perils of outdoor adventure in the “East’s greatest wilderness,” the Adirondacks. |
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Price: $7.99
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Sale: $3.84
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Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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Author: Aldo Leopold
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Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 508.73
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Publication Date: 1986-12-12
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: Published in 1949, shortly after the author's death, A Sand County Almanac is a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. Writing from the vantage of his summer shack along the banks of the Wisconsin River, Leopold mixes essay, polemic, and memoir in his book's pages. In one famous episode, he writes of killing a female wolf early in his career as a forest ranger, coming upon his victim just as she was dying, "in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes.... I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, no wolves would mean hunters' paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view." Leopold's road-to-Damascus change of view would find its fruit some years later in his so-called land ethic, in which he held that nothing that disturbs the balance of nature is right. Much of Almanac elaborates on this basic premise, as well as on Leopold's view that it is something of a human duty to preserve as much wild land as possible, as a kind of bank for the biological future of all species. Beautifully written, quiet, and elegant, Leopold's book deserves continued study and discussion today. --Gregory McNamee
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $9.49
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Manufacturer: NewSage Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Helen Thayer
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Publisher: NewSage Press
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 917.1955
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Publication Date: 2002-09-16
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Reading Level: 254
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Description: In 1988, at the age of 50, Helen Thayer became the first woman in the world to travel on foot to the magnetic North Pole, one of the world's most remote and dangerous regions. Her only companion was Charlie, her loyal husky, who was integral to her survival. Polar Dream is the story of their heroic trek and extraordinary relationship as they faced polar bears, unimaginable cold, and a storm that destroyed most of their supplies and food. A new epilogue, maps, and many previously unpublished expedition photographs are new to this second edition. "A page-turner.... Fully captures the drama of what was a remarkable achievement." — The Washington Times
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $1.30
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Manufacturer: Mariner Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jordan Fisher Smith
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Publisher: Mariner Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 2006-05-03
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: A nature book unlike any other, Jordan Fisher Smith's startling account of fourteen years as a park ranger thoroughly dispels our idealized visions of life in the great outdoors. Instead of scout troops and placid birdwatchers, Smith's beat -- a stretch of land that has been officially condemned to be flooded -- brings him into contact with drug users tweaked out to the point of violence, obsessed miners, and other dangerous creatures. In unflinchingly honest prose, he reveals the unexpectedly dark underbelly of patrolling and protecting public lands.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $3.25
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Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jonathan Waterman
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Publisher: The Lyons Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 796.522097983
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Publication Date: 1998-07-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: For fans of Into Thin Air, here is a gripping narrative that brings to life both the sublime and the struggle of a climbers life. Two hundred and sixteen miles south of the Arctic circle is Denali, otherwise known as Mt. McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America, rising more than twenty thousand feet into the Alaskan sky. In this exhilarating account, Jonathan Waterman, a former guide on Denali, paints a startlingly intimate portrait of the white leviathan and the people who have lived and died on "The High One."
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Price: $13.99
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Sale: $9.08
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Brand: Scenic
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Manufacturer: Willow Creek Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Calendar
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Publisher: Willow Creek Press
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Edition: Wal
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Publication Date: 2008-06-30
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Description: These 12 inspiring mountain views will take your breath away.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $10.97
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Manufacturer: Wilderness Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John W. Robinson::Doug Christiansen
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Publisher: Wilderness Press
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Edition: 8 Pap/Map
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Dewey Decimal Number: 917
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Publication Date: 2005-04
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Reading Level: 254
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Description: The rugged San Gabriel Mountains, rising starkly from the edge of the Los Angeles Basin, provide a sharp contrast the hustle and bustle of the city and its surroundings. Angelinos across the county (a population of almost 10 million), as well as visitors from out of state, welcome the opportunity to escape from city chaos into the quiet wilderness. This 8th edition of the classic Wilderness Press guide has been revised and updated to reflect recent trail changes due to fires and floods, and now includes trips in the Fish Canyon Narrows, along Alder Creek, and to Jones Peak, as well as perennial favorites such as Old Baldy, Mt. Wilson, and Devils Punchbowl. Each detailed trip description notes the distance, difficulty, and ideal season, and points out the highlights of the trail.
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $8.99
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Brand: Tide-Mark Press (COM)
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Manufacturer: Tide-Mark Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Calendar
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Publisher: Tide-Mark Press
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Edition: Wal
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Publication Date: 2008-06-30
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Title: Yosemite 2009 Calendar
Author: Tide-Mark Press (COM)
Publisher: Tide-Mark Pr Ltd
Publication Date: 2008/06/30
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Binding Type: PAPERBACK
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