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Accompanied by his dog, Atticus M. Finch, middle-aged newspaper editor Tom Ryan set out during the winter of 2006-2007 to pay tribute to a friend who died of cancer by climbing all 48 of New Hampshire's 4,000- foot peaks to raise money for charity. This is the story of the adventure that strengthened the bond between man and dog and highlights the resilience of the human and animal spirit.
Author
Publisher
Villard Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
292 p. 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author and his family and friends recount his battle with depression, his obsession with extreme sports, and his recuperation from eighteen hours of subzero exposure on Mount Everest that left him in a hypothermic coma in 1996.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
355 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"The story of Jordan Romero, who at the age of 13 became the youngest person ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest. At age 15, he reached the summits of the world's 7 highest mountains"--
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
342 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Erik Weihenmayer was born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder that would leave him blind by the age of thirteen. But Erik was determined to rise above this devastating disability and lead a fulfilling and exciting life. In this poignant and inspiring memoir, he shares his struggle to push past the limits imposed on him by his visual impairment-and by a seeing world. He speaks movingly of the role his family played in his battle to break...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
319 p. ill. (some col.), maps 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Possibly the most interesting aspect of this book is how improbable it seems that Breashears (Mountain Without Mercy) ever lived to write it. An accomplished alpinist, Breashears not only recounts his numerous, dicey ascents of the planets peaks but also explores his motivation for doing so. Though he is an experienced cinematographer whose past employers range from PBS to Hollywood, Breashears is most widely known as the director of the IMAX film...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
p. : ill. ; cm.
Language
English
Description
A spirit-seeking hippie before hippies even existed, mountaineering legend Willi Unsoeld named his daughter after India's tallest peak: Nanda Devi. Twenty-two years later, in 1976, Nanda Devi died on Nanda Devi. Her fate, her father's attitude about climbing, and mountaineering's transition from amateur hobby to slick commercial enterprise are all covered in this book.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
vii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Recounts Alex Honnold's unprecedented solo climb of Yosemite's El Capitan, describing the feat along with the other climbing expeditions that populated his amateur and professional experiences.
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xii, 250 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kara Richardson Whitely knew that she could reach the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro. She had done it once before. That's why, when she failed in a second attempt, it brought her so low. As she struggled with food addiction and looked for ways to cope with feelings of failure and shame, Kara's weight shot to more than 300 pounds. Deep in her personal gorge, Kara realized that the only way out was up. She resolved to climb the mountain again - and this...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
viii, 405 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"One slip, one false move, one missed toehold, and you're dead. Alex Honnold, the #1 free solo climber in the world, chose the route known as Freerider on Yosemite's El Capitan, a series of pitches so hard that it's newsworthy when someone free climbs it with a rope. No one had ever 'free soloed' it before; only a few people have ever even contemplated it. That four-hour climb on June 3, 2017, was, simply, one of the boldest feats in human history....
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Following Atticus, an international bestseller that has inspired hundreds of thousands of people around the world, comes the moving true story of a despondent and broken old dog and the man who gave him a second chance. Drawn by a fateful online post, Tom Ryan, with the help of his canine hiking partner, Atticus M. Finch, adopts Will, an elderly, deaf, and nearly blind soul. Long neglected and filled with anger and pain, Will finds...
13) Free solo
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Despite attempts by his friends, loved ones and his new girlfriend to dissuade him from this dangerous feat, Alex Honnold, the worlds most accomplished free soloist climber, prepares mentally and physically for his most daring adventure to date: scaling the 3200-foot El Capitan in Yosemite without a rope or safety gear. If he succeeds, it will mark the largest wall he, or anyone else, for that matter, has ascended without any kind of equipment.
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