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 [Japan]. Academic Alpine Club of Kyoto Chogolisa: The Japanese Chogolisa Expedition, 1958
1959 Asahi-Newspaper Tokyo 1st, 8vo, pp.88, 139, 7 color & 99 bw photos (1 fldg pan) + 21 bw portraits, 3 maps (2 fldg), green cloth; signed Kurt Diemberger, dj w/ original glassine wrapper, rubbed, vertical crease line on back, very good, cloth fine #25389 $425.00
Account of the first ascent of Chogolisa (25,110’) which placed two members on the summit in 1958. Previous attempts had been made by the Duke of the Abruzzi, in 1909, and Hermann Buhl and Kurt Diemberger, in 1957. Scarce. In Japanese, no English translation.
Yak j89 (1st), j243 (2nd), jK167 (3rd[read more]
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[Shackleton] Nimrod: The Journal of the Ernest Shackleton Autumn School. Vol 1
Oct 2007 Ireland 8vo, pp.111, 16 bw photos, wraps; new #25095 $29.00
An interesting new journal with articles on Shackleton, the Antarctic Treaty, polar books, McClintock, and book reviews. Previous volumes are still available.[read more]
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[Shackleton] Nimrod: The Journal of the Ernest Shackleton Autumn School. Vol 10
Oct 2016 Ireland 8vo, pp.124, 19 color & 17 bw photos, 5 bw illus, 1 maps, wraps; new #27169 $35.00
This issue contains articles on the Shackleton Memorial, Shackleton crossing Antarctica, Scott Polar Research Institute archives, top 10 polar decisions, book reviews and more. Previous volumes are still available.[read more]
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[Shackleton] Nimrod: The Journal of the Ernest Shackleton Autumn School. Vol 11
Oct 2017 Ireland 8vo, pp.157, 19 color & 23 bw photos, 2 bw illus, 4 color maps, wraps; new #27362 $35.00
This issue contains articles on Shackleton, de Gerlache, Hurley, Antarctic place names, the coldest place on earth, finding Franklin’s ships, preserving Antarctic heritage, the rescue of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition survivors from Elephant Island, book reviews and more. Previous volumes a[read more]
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[Shackleton] Nimrod: The Journal of the Ernest Shackleton Autumn School. Vol 12
Oct 2018 Ireland 8vo, pp.146, 7 color & 19 bw photos, 5 color & 3 bw illus, 1 plan, 1 color & 2 bw maps, wraps; new #27505 $35.00
This issue contains articles including a Shackleton interview, two men in the Antarctic, the Endurance’s library, Antarctic place names, Douglas Mawson, Byrd’s introduction of machines, Amundsen’s South Pole letter, Scott Island, book reviews and more. Previous volumes are still available.[read more]
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[Shackleton] Nimrod: The Journal of the Ernest Shackleton Autumn School. Vol 13
Oct 2019 Ireland 8vo, pp.161, 15 color & 28 bw photos, 7 color & 4 bw illus, 1 plan, 1 table, 2 bw maps, wraps; new #27581 $35.00
This issue contains articles on William Speirs Bruce, the First Fram Expedition (1893-96), Raymond Priestley, Kathleen Shackleton, South Orkney Islands, the importance of yachts in Arctic/Antarctic exploration, the Times Literary Supplement, book reviews and more. Previous volumes are still availabl[read more]
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[Shackleton] Nimrod: The Journal of the Ernest Shackleton Autumn School. Vol 2
Oct 2008 Ireland 8vo, pp.147, 15 color & 22 bw photos, map, wraps; new #25285 $35.00
This issue contains articles on the S. Y. Endurance, Antarctic sites outside the Antarctic, the ‘Kildare’ Shackleton harness, Arctic sovereignty, a biographical dictionary of South Georgia, and book reviews. Previous volumes are still available.[read more]
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[Shackleton] Nimrod: The Journal of the Ernest Shackleton Autumn School. Vol 3
Oct 2009 Ireland 8vo, pp.139, 18 color & 11 bw photos, sketch, 2 maps, wraps; new #25473 $35.00
This issue contains articles on Shackleton, Crean, Chile, medieval exploration of the North Atlantic, the Antarctic Treaty, Shackleton’s first public lectures, and book reviews. Previous volumes are still available.[read more]
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[Shackleton] Nimrod: The Journal of the Ernest Shackleton Autumn School. Vol 4
Oct 2010 Ireland 8vo, pp.165, 20 color & 29 bw photos, 2 plans/sketches, wraps; new #25666 $35.00
This issue contains articles on the Shackleton Autumn School, Scott, historic huts of the Antarctic, early Arctic films, great books of Shackletonia, Shackleton and fur sealing in the Falklands, and book reviews. Previous volumes are still available.[read more]
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[Shackleton] Nimrod: The Journal of the Ernest Shackleton Autumn School. Vol 5
Oct 2011 Ireland 8vo, pp.133, 4 color & 9 bw photos, 2 bw illus, color map, wraps; bend to corner from shipping, else new #25884 $35.00
This issue contains articles on adventure (by Shackleton), Shirase, the Weddell Sea, the Endurance, polar ships, Frank Wild’s hut, Shackleton’s rescue, the Erebus and Terror, and book reviews. Previous volumes are still available.[read more]
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[Shackleton] Nimrod: The Journal of the Ernest Shackleton Autumn School. Vol 6
Oct 2012 Ireland 8vo, pp.169, 24 color & 35 bw photos, 1 bw illus, 1 color & 2 bw maps, wraps; new #26262 $35.00
This issue contains articles on Shackleton, Amundsen, Larsen, Wilson’s notebooks, Priestley, postage stamps, book reviews, and more. Previous volumes are still available.[read more]
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[Shackleton] Nimrod: The Journal of the Ernest Shackleton Autumn School. Vol 7
Oct 2013 Ireland 8vo, pp.136, 8 color & 23 bw photos, 1 color & 1 bw illus, 7 bw maps, wraps; new #26607 $35.00
This issue contains articles on Amundsen, Shackleton and science, Filchner, Scott’s Irishmen, the Endurance, Oates, Antarctic place names, coins, book reviews and more. Previous volumes are still available.[read more]
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[Shackleton] Nimrod: The Journal of the Ernest Shackleton Autumn School. Vol 8
Oct 2014 Ireland 8vo, pp.140, 14 color & 11 bw photos, 2 color & 1 bw illus, 1 map, wraps; new #26826 $35.00
This issue contains articles on Shackleton, hoosh, sea ice, heritage sites, other Antarctic crew members, place names with Irish origins, book reviews and more. Previous volumes are still available.[read more]
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[Shackleton] Nimrod: The Journal of the Ernest Shackleton Autumn School. Vol 9
Oct 2015 Ireland 8vo, pp.162, 30 color & 13 bw photos, 13 bw illus, graph, 4 maps, wraps; new #27020 $35.00
This issue contains articles by John King Davis, on the Weddell Sea, Antarctica then and now, William Scoresby, Benjamin Leigh Smith, Shackleton, the Endurance, Cook’s second voyage, Antarctic place names, book reviews and more. Previous volumes are still available.[read more]
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Alinder, Mary Street Ansel Adams: A Biography
1996 Holt NY 1st, 8vo, pp.xx, 489, photo frontis, 31 bw photos, black/grey cloth; signed, dj unclipped, near fine, cloth tight, fine #26378 $39.00
Alinder's biography of Ansel Adams remains the only full biography of one of the greatest American photographers. Alinder is a respected scholar, and also had a close connection to Adams, serving as his chief assistant in the last five years of his life. The portrait she creates of him is intimate a[read more]
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Alpinist Magazine Alpinist #14 Winter 2005-2006
2005 Alpinist Jackson, WY 4to, pp.96, color photos, wraps; very fine, like new #24165 $45.00
In this issue:
- Faces: Naoe Sakashita
- First Ascent: Bonnie Prudden in the Gunks
- Mountain Profile: Howser Towers by Topher Donahue, Jim McCarthy, Yvon Chouinard, Chris Jones, Jerry Gore & Cedar Wright
- Angel’s Gold, Venezuela by John Arran
- Free Solo
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Alpinist Magazine Alpinist #20 Summer 2007
2007 Alpinist Jackson, WY 4to, pp.96, color photos, wraps; new, unread #24654 $18.99
In this issue:
- Faces: Jonny Woodward
- First Ascent: Ed Drummond on Gogarth’s Wen Zwan
- Mountain Profile: Mt. Huntington by Clay Wadman, Jean-Louis Bernezat, David Roberts, Jack Roberts, Jay Smith, & Katsutaka Yokoyama
- Enlightenment by Keith Ladzinsk
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Alpinist Magazine Alpinist #33 Winter 2010-11
2010 Alpinist Jeffersonville, VT 4to, pp.98, color photos, wraps; fine #25623 $19.00
In this issue:
- On Belay: Mt. Roraima, Guyana by Eliseu Frechou
- Mountain Profile: Grand Teton by Renny Jackson, Susan Chaplin, Irene Beardsley, Lito Tejada-Flores, Dave Carman, & Mark Newcomb
- Etched in Stone: Memories of Dave Thomson (1955-2009) by Jeremy Krocker
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Alpinist Magazine Alpinist T-shirt White Small or Medium
White with Alpinist logo on the front and a design on the back (Small or Medium), Hanes Beefy-T; new #25123 $7.95
We have aquired a few new t-shirts from Alpinist magazine.
- Your choice of Small (34-36) or Medium (38-40) while supplies last
- New, unused
Please note your desired size when ordering. These Alpinist t-shirts feature the climbing artwork of Canadian Paul Dedi (19[read more]
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Ament, Pat Climber's Choice: The Best Climbing Writers Present Their Work
2002 US 1st, 8vo, pp.xix, 284, photo frontis, 36 bw photos, burgundy/blue cloth; dj unclipped, fine, cloth tight, fine #22279 $29.00
A nice selection of 23 writings by such notables as – Bonatti, Bonington, Child, Diemberger, Gill, Higgins, Irvine, Long, McNaught-Davis, Osius, Perrin, Pratt, Pritchard, Robbins, Sherman, Simpson, Synnott, Venables, Webster, and others.[read more]
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