David Roberts
Author
Publisher
Mountaineers Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
189 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
On September 1, 2004, three middle-aged buddies set out on one of the last geographic challenges never before attempted in North America: to hike the Comb Ridge in one continuous push. The Comb is an upthrust ridge of sandstone--virtually a mini-mountain range--that stretches almost unbroken for a hundred miles from just east of Kayenta, Arizona, to some ten miles west of Blanding, Utah. To hike the Comb is to run a gauntlet of up-and-down severities,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
414 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he was 18, the author witnessed, in Boulder, Colorado, the death of his first climbing companion. Later he was at the scene of a climber's death in Mount Washington, New Hampshire, and a few months after that Roberts saw his friend fall 4,000 feet to his death while exploring a new route in Alaska. The author of 16 other books dealing with mountaineering, Roberts here analyzes his years spent hiking these dangerous trails. He writes that although...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
239 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In June 1950, a team of mountaineers was the first to conquer an 8,000-meter peak. Maurice Herzog, the leader of the expedition, became a national hero in France, and Annapurna, his account of the historic ascent, has long been regarded as the ultimate tale of courage and cooperation under the harshest of conditions. Using newly available documents and information gleaned from a rare interview with Herzog (the only climber on the team still living),...
4) The last of his kind: the life and adventures of Bradford Washburn, America's boldest mountaineer
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
334 p., [16] p of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
American Brad Washburn had an impact on his proteges and imitators as profound as that of any other adventurer in the twentieth century. Unquestionably regarded as the greatest mountaineer in Alaskan history and as one of the finest mountain photographers of all time, Washburn transformed American attitudes toward wilderness and revolutionized the art of mountaineering and exploration in the great ranges. In The Last of His Kind, National Geographic...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
206 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Escape from Lucania recounts Washburn and Bates's determined drive toward Lucania's 17,150-foot summit under constant threat of avalanches, blinding snowstorms, and hidden crevasses. Against awesome odds they became the first to set foot on Lucania's peak, not realizing that their greatest challenge still lay beyond. Nearly a month after being stranded on the glacier and with their supplies running dangerously low, they would have to navigate their...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
279 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The dramatic and tragic story of the only successful Native American uprising against the Spanish, the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. With the conquest of New Mexico in 1598, Spanish governors, soldiers, and missionaries began their brutal subjugation of the Pueblo Indians in what is today the Southwestern United States. This oppression continued for decades, until, in the summer of 1680, led by a visionary shaman named Pope, the Puebloans revolted. In total...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©1993
Physical Desc
368 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Of the many tales of conflict and warfare between the U.S. government and the Indian tribes, perhaps none is more dramatic or revealing than the story of the Apache wars. Those wars were the final episode in the U.S. government's subjugation of the indigenous peoples; the surrender of Geronimo in 1886 effectively ended the Indian wars. As Anglo settlers moved into the Southwest in the mid-1800s, skirmishes with the Indians intensified. The Apaches...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
342 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering, with good reason. Four times as deadly as Everest, K2 has claimed the lives of seventy-seven climbers since 1954. In August 2008 eleven climbers died in a single thirty-six-hour period on K2–the worst single-event tragedy in the mountain's history and the second-worst...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
viii, 358 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., col. map. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to the Top is as much about the man who would become the first American to achieve that goal as it is about his stunning quest. As Viesturs recounts the stories of his most harrowing climbs, he reveals a man torn between the flat, safe world he and his loved ones share and the majestic...
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
608 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
From Robert Falcon Scott's final journal entry to Jon Krakauer's reckless solo climb of the Devil's Thumb, David Roberts and the editors of Outside have gathered the most enduring adventure literature of the century into one heart-stopping volume. A frigid winter ascent of Mount McKinley; the vastness of Arabia's Empty Quarter; the impossibly thin air at Everest's summit; the deadly black pressure of an underwater cave; a desperate escape through...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xvi, 281 p., [8] p. of col. plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author of No Shortcuts to the Top and K2 chronicles his three attempts to climb the world's tenth-highest and statistically deadliest peak, Annapurna in the Himalaya, while exploring the dramatic and tragic history of others who have made -- or attempted – the ascent, and what these exploits teach us about facing life's greatest challenges. As a high school student in the flatlands of Rockford, Illinois, where the highest objects on the horizon...