The Next Everest: Surviving the Mountain’s Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again
Check out Jim Davidson's author page.
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High Cuisine: Slow-Cooked Goat Tacos in the Canary Islands
Kieran Creevy and Lisa Paarvio have some recipes to spice up your base camp, bivies and crag hangs. Here’s the second installment of High Cuisine: tasty local creations for the mountain athlete.
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Mr Quarter to Two: Life and Death with Mother Nature’s Misfits
Check out Rusty Baillie's author page.
Dammed If You Don’t: Does Saving the Places We Love Destroy Them?
Check out Chris Kalman's author page.
The Bark of the Cony
Check out George Nash Smith's author page.
Finding Community
Check out Drew Hulsey's author page.
How Climbing Can Help Rebuild an Island
With a history of mining, this tiny raised atoll called Makatea in French Polynesia hopes to use climbing and other forms of ecotourism to grow and rebuild its community with a sustainable economy.
The Choss Pile: Q&A with Belayer Mag
The lowdown on the hottest (safest?) new climbing publication on the scene, Belayer Magazine.
“I didn’t decide what to include, my OCD did”: New Northeast Ice Climbing Guidebook Has It All
A Q&A with Todd Swain, author of the recently released An Ice Climber’s Guide to Southern New England and Eastern New York.
Shook: An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest’s Deadliest Day
When a 7.8 magnitude earthquake an its resulting avalanche sweeps away much of Base Camp on Mount Everest, world-renowned mountain-climbing guide Dave Hahn of Taos, New Mexico; Sherpa sirdar Chhering Dorjee; assistant guide JJ Justman; and their five clients find themselves stranded at Camp 1, at the elevation of 20,000 feet. With their route down the mountain now obstructed by unpassable crevasses, Hahn and his team face a risky helicopter evacuation.
Winter 8000: The First Winter Ascent of Everest
The first winter ascent of Everest is a classic mountaineering story, expertly recounted here by Bernadette McDonald.
Start ‘Em Young! 6 Climbing Children’s Books
Turns out there are a solid few Climbing Children's Books out there---time to get one for your kid. (And even if they don't fall in love with climbing like you did, you can train 'em up as a belayer!)