Storms of Silence by Joe Simpson
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Adventure
A moving account of the author's maverick life as a mountaineer. Behind these tales of adventure lies a brooding disquiet as he struggles to come to terms with the grinding poverty and violence lurking so close to the surface of life everywhere that he travels. In Storms of Silence Joe Simpson recall ...Show more
Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8000- Metre Peak by Maurice Herzog
29.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
In 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000 meters had ever been climbed. Maurice Herzog and other members of the French Alpine Club resolved to try. This is the enthralling story of the first conquest of Annapurna and the harrowing descent. With breathtaking courage and grit manifest on every page, Annapurn ...Show more
Learning to Breathe by Andy Cave
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Adventure
The extraordinary autobiography of a brilliant young climber who began life as one of the last generation of British miners. At the age of sixteen, Andy Cave followed in his father's and grandfather's footsteps and became a miner - one of the last recruits into a dying world. Every day he would desce ...Show more
Fragile Edge: Loss on Everest by Maria Coffey
27.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
"Maria Coffey's tale of sharing in the life, and death, of the great mountaineer Joe Tasker is a once a deeply personal love story and a penetrating look into the world of professional climbers. Such clarity and honesty are seldom seen in mountain writing" Greg Child, author of Postcards from the Ledge ...Show more
Alive: The True Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read
24.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
They overcame the impossible by doing the unthinkable...On 13th October 1972, a plane chartered by an amateur rugby team on their way to Santiago in Chile crashed in the Andes. Some of the forty-five passengers and crew were killed on impact, others seriously injured. Weakened by starvation, extreme col ...Show more
The Beckoning Silence by Joe Simpson
29.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
Joe Simpson has experienced a life filled with adventure, but marred by death. He has endured the painful attrition of climbing friends in accidents, which call into question the perilously exhilarating activity to which he has devoted his whole life. Probability is inexorably closing in. The tragic los ...Show more
This Game of Ghosts by Joe Simpson
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Adventure
A sequel to the award-winning "Touching the Void", in which Simpson described a fall in the Himalayas which crippled and almost broke him. This is a memoir of the signposts that have directed him since childhood to measure fear and embrace the unknown.
The Eiger Obsession : Facing the mountain that killed my father by John Harlin, III
37.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
In the 1960s an American named John Harlin II changed the face of Alpine climbing. Gutsy and gorgeous - he was known as 'the blond god' - Harlin successfully summitted some of the most treacherous mountains in Europe. But it was the North Face of the Eiger that became Harlin's obsession. Living with his ...Show more
Psychovertical by Andy Kirkpatrick
59.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
"Metro" magazine recently wrote that Andy Kirkpatrick makes Ray Mears look like Paris Hilton. Words like boldness, adventure and risk were surely coined especially for him. As one of the world's most accomplished mountaineers and big-wall climbers, he goes vertically where other climbers (to say nothing ...Show more
Tomaz Humar by Terrence Real
37.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
The remarkable story of one of the world's most famous mountain climbers - from his involvement in the Balkans wars and his desperate escape, to how he came to be such an audacious and notorious climber of high-risk routes.
Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle by Marc Gonsalves
29.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American military contractors - Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, and Keith Stansell - crashed in the mountainous jungle of Colombia. Dazed and shaken, they awoke covered in blood with automatic rifles pointing at their faces. As of that moment they belonged to the ...Show more
Lost in Shangri-La: Escape From A Hidden World - A True Story by Mitchell Zuckoff
34.99 NZD
Category: Adventure
An utterly gripping non-fiction adventure narrative, Lost in Shangri-La is an untold true story of war, anthropology, survival, discovery, heroism and a near-impossible rescue mission. Three months before the end of World War II, a U.S. Army plane flying over New Guinea crashed in uncharted mountains i ...Show more