good at maths
source and explanation about what it all means via butdoesitfloat and Princeton’s Art of Science Gallery.
good at maths
source and explanation about what it all means via butdoesitfloat and Princeton’s Art of Science Gallery.
Let my people go surfing – Yvon Chouinard
Published: 2005 Reading style: easy Images: b&w throughout What the publisher says: the education of a reluctant businessman As a child, Yvon Chouinard moved with his father, a French Canadian blacksmith, to Southern California with little English and less money.
Let my people go surfing – Yvon Chouinard
Published: 2005 Reading style: easy Images: b&w throughout What the publisher says: the education of a reluctant businessman As a child, Yvon Chouinard moved with his father, a French Canadian blacksmith, to Southern California with little English and less money.
a desire to measure
via Retronaut and the David Rumsey Map Collection. click on the image to view a scalable version.
a desire to measure
via Retronaut and the David Rumsey Map Collection. click on the image to view a scalable version.
mountain brilliance
mountaineering image of the year via Partly Crazy With a Chance of Frostbite, Outside Online. referencing Banff Film Festival Grand prize, Cory Richards and Forge Motion Pictures.
mountain brilliance
mountaineering image of the year via Partly Crazy With a Chance of Frostbite, Outside Online. referencing Banff Film Festival Grand prize, Cory Richards and Forge Motion Pictures.
Kiss or Kill – Mark Twight
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★★ Published: 2001 Reading style: medium Images: yes ( b&w throughout) Lasting memory: Mark Twight’s influence on modern climbing is well documented. The so-called Dr Doom of elite alpinism and its writings fuelled a rethink of what
Kiss or Kill – Mark Twight
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★★ Published: 2001 Reading style: medium Images: yes ( b&w throughout) Lasting memory: Mark Twight’s influence on modern climbing is well documented. The so-called Dr Doom of elite alpinism and its writings fuelled a rethink of what
Solo Faces – James Salter
Published: 1979 Reading style: medium Images: no, fiction What the publisher says: Rand lives free; lean, pure and defiant, the world has little influence on him. His passion is climbing – the mountains, the huge vertical faces. There, where storms,
Solo Faces – James Salter
Published: 1979 Reading style: medium Images: no, fiction What the publisher says: Rand lives free; lean, pure and defiant, the world has little influence on him. His passion is climbing – the mountains, the huge vertical faces. There, where storms,
Library Talks: Freddie Wilkinson, author of One Mountain Thousand Summits
Freddie Wilkinson is a writer, guide and Mountain Hardwear sponsored climber from New Hampshire in the USA who published his first book, One Mountain Thousand Summits: the untold story of tragedy and heroism on K2, in 2010. His writing has
Library Talks: Freddie Wilkinson, author of One Mountain Thousand Summits
Freddie Wilkinson is a writer, guide and Mountain Hardwear sponsored climber from New Hampshire in the USA who published his first book, One Mountain Thousand Summits: the untold story of tragedy and heroism on K2, in 2010. His writing has
Caucasus: mountain men and holy wars – Nicholas Griffin
Published: 2001 Reading style: medium/hard Images: 8 pages – colour What the publisher says The Caucasus is a land whose jagged terrain points starkly to the region’s rich but bloody past – and to a present that is no less
Caucasus: mountain men and holy wars – Nicholas Griffin
Published: 2001 Reading style: medium/hard Images: 8 pages – colour What the publisher says The Caucasus is a land whose jagged terrain points starkly to the region’s rich but bloody past – and to a present that is no less
Library Talks: Jamie McGuinness, author of Trekking in the Everest Region
Jamie McGuinness has been trekking in the Himalaya for 20 years, speaks Nepali, was the first New Zealander to climb Broad Peak in Pakistan and has climbed Everest multiple times. He guides treks and climbs for Project Himalaya.
Library Talks: Jamie McGuinness, author of Trekking in the Everest Region
Jamie McGuinness has been trekking in the Himalaya for 20 years, speaks Nepali, was the first New Zealander to climb Broad Peak in Pakistan and has climbed Everest multiple times. He guides treks and climbs for Project Himalaya.
bresson’s kashmir
It’s famous, because it’s remarkable. It’s remarkable because the immensity of the scene, and the significance of the composure, is amplified by mountains. Dark and resolute, they are a religion in themselves.
bresson’s kashmir
It’s famous, because it’s remarkable. It’s remarkable because the immensity of the scene, and the significance of the composure, is amplified by mountains. Dark and resolute, they are a religion in themselves.
Meru – William Butler Yeats
Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion; but man’s life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may
Meru – William Butler Yeats
Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion; but man’s life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may
The Boardman Tasker Omnibus
Published: 1995 Reading style: medium Images: yes (16 pages b&w + route sketches) Savage Arena – Joe Tasker The Shining Mountain – Peter Boardman Sacred Summits – Peter Boardman Everest the Cruel Way – Joe Tasker What the publisher says:
The Boardman Tasker Omnibus
Published: 1995 Reading style: medium Images: yes (16 pages b&w + route sketches) Savage Arena – Joe Tasker The Shining Mountain – Peter Boardman Sacred Summits – Peter Boardman Everest the Cruel Way – Joe Tasker What the publisher says:
The Folded Earth – Anuradha Roy
Published: 2011 Reading style: medium Images: no (fiction) What the publisher says: In a remote town in the Himalaya, high mountains and forest all around, Maya tries to put behind her a time of great sorrow. Her bond with an
The Folded Earth – Anuradha Roy
Published: 2011 Reading style: medium Images: no (fiction) What the publisher says: In a remote town in the Himalaya, high mountains and forest all around, Maya tries to put behind her a time of great sorrow. Her bond with an
The Beckoning Silence – Joe Simpson
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★★ Published: 2003 Reading style: medium Images: yes (24 pages colour and b&w) What the publisher says: Author of Touching the Void, “one of the absolute classics of mountaineering” — George Steiner Since his epic battle for
The Beckoning Silence – Joe Simpson
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★★ Published: 2003 Reading style: medium Images: yes (24 pages colour and b&w) What the publisher says: Author of Touching the Void, “one of the absolute classics of mountaineering” — George Steiner Since his epic battle for
One Mountain Thousand Summits – Freddie Wilkinson
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★ Published: 2010 Reading style: medium Images: yes (8 pages, b&w) Read The Mountain Library interview with this author - Library Talks: Freddie Wilkinson, author of One Mountain Thousand Summits. Lasting memory: One Mountain Thousand Summits by Freddie
One Mountain Thousand Summits – Freddie Wilkinson
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★ Published: 2010 Reading style: medium Images: yes (8 pages, b&w) Read The Mountain Library interview with this author - Library Talks: Freddie Wilkinson, author of One Mountain Thousand Summits. Lasting memory: One Mountain Thousand Summits by Freddie
