Les trois derniers problèmes des Alpes. Dans les années 30, les meilleurs alpinistes d'Europe s'acharnèrent avec un courage qui force encore le respect à vaincre les " derniers problèmes des Alpes " : des faces nord particulièrement rébarbatives qui semblaient alors représenter la limite extrême des possibilités humaines ne matière d'alpinisme. par leur ampleur et leurs difficultés, trois parois émergent : les Grandes Jorasses, de Cervin...

"In a series of adventures that takes the reader from Bolivia to the Alps, from Colorado to Spain, Simpson explores the enchantment of rock and ice and the forces that drive him to climb in the face of extreme risk. An attempt on the hooded, mile-high north face of the Eiger is meant to cap his career, but this final adventure would itself be touched by tragedy..."--p. [4] of cover.

With hundreds of reports, photos, and maps, the American Alpine Journal is the world's most comprehensive and respected source for each year's new climbs and expeditions.

In July 1967, seven young men--members of Joe Wilcox's twelve-man expedition--died on Mt. McKinley, North America's highest peak, stranded at 20,000 feet during a vicious Arctic storm. Ten days passed with no rescue attempt; the bodies were never recovered. And, for reasons that have remained cloudy, there was no proper official investigation. This book begins as a classic tale of men against nature, gambling--and losing--on one of the world's starkest...

Originating in the climbing world, slacklining is the act of balancing along a narrow, flexible piece of webbing that has been anchored between two stable objects. The book includes detailed methods for building tricklines (low lines used for jumping tricks), longlines (low lines where the goal is to walk as long as possible), and highlines (slacklines rigged high between cliffs using climbing gear). Technique chapters cover the skills needed to practice...

On the vast, sunlit walls of the world's greatest monolith, two veteran climbers unwittingly ascend into a vertical underworld. In a place where obsession kills, they quickly fall prey to past loves, old demons, and ghostly revenge.

Canopy: A meditation on the age-old question about why we climb. The Minaret: In the height of the Ottoman Empire, the common people, Muslims, were forbidden to climb mountains. How one who was pious but a mountaineer at heart dealt with this edict. The Agony: Trapped high on a hard new route, a young climber is visited by a woman who once shared his fate, urging him to make the decisions to save himself. A High Refuge: Languedoc, the Pyrenees,...

How to Rock Climb!, now in its fourth edition, is the world's top instructional book on climbing. All the fundamentals -- from ethics to getting up the rock -- are presented in John Long's classic style. Revised and updated to reflect the modern standards of equipment, technique, and training methods, this guide includes sections on face climbing; crack climbing; ropes, anchors, and belays; getting off the rock; sport climbing; and much more. It is...