Overview :Upon that Mountain is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer Eric Shipton. In it, he describes all his pre-war climbing, in... Read More
Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This w... Read More
Overview :'We discovered an easy pass to the head of the Ameghino Glacier, and climbed to the summit of a rock peak above it, where for three hours we... Read More
Overview :When a man is conscious of the urge to explore, not all the arduous journeyings, the troubles that will beset him and the lack of material g... Read More
Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This w... Read More
Overview :'It is often from our setbacks, even our weaknesses, that we derive some of our greatest blessings.'That Untravelled World is the autobiogra... Read More
Overview :In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest. They climbed from the south, from Nepal, via the Khumbu Glac... Read More
Overview :'As I studied the maps, one thing about them captured my imagination - across this blank space was written one challenging word, "Unexplored... Read More
Overview :The area around the Indian mountain Nanda Devi is wild and isolated. This is a fascinating insight to the men who explored this region long ... Read More