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Swain, Todd The Gunks Guide 1995 Chockstone Evergreen 3rd, small 8vo, pp.x, 387, 82 bw photos, maps, wrap; inscribed ‘Phil, Years of great stories from this place. Cheers, Henry C. Barber’, fine #25215 $19.00 $15.20
This book is from the Phil Hanson Collection. Phil's love of rock and ice climbing transcends to his collection of treasured books. He discovered his passion for the sport later in life, when Henry Barber gave a motivational speech at a sales meeting for the outdoor apparel company he worked for. [read more]
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Swarner, Sean Keep Climbing: How I Beat Cancer and Reached the Top of the World 2007 US 1st, 8vo, pp.228, 28 color & 1 bw photos, blue/white cloth; dj & cloth new #24633 $24.95
At 15, Swarner became the only person to have ever been diagnosed with both Hodgkin’s disease and Askin’s sarcoma. . He was told twice by his doctors that he had only weeks to live with these cancers. Then in 2002, with only partial use of his lungs, he became the first cancer survivor to climb Mou[read more]
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Sweeney, James P. A Thousand Prayers: Alaska Climbing Expedition - Marine Life Solidarity 2016 US reprint, 8vo, pp.xii, 311, 3 bw photos, wraps; new #27022 $24.95
The epic story of Sweeney’s and Dave Nyman’s 1989 attempt on Alaska’s Mount Johnson and its 2400’ tall ‘Elevator Shaft’. A 90-foot fall fractured Sweeney’s hip leading to an eight-day self-rescue. They endured being buried by multiple avalanches, crevasse falls, solo glacier travel, loss and destruc[read more]
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Swenson, Steve Karakoram: Climbing Through the Kashmir Conflict 2017 US 1st, 8vo, pp.317, photo frontis, 16 color & 13 bw photos, 6 maps, black cloth; dj & cloth new #27225 $26.95
Karakoram is world-class alpinist Steve Swenson’s personal story of climbing K2 and other peaks in the Karakoram Range that straddles the borders of China, India, and Pakistan — a story told against the backdrop of extreme altitude and harsh conflict between these nations for control of Kashmir.
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Swindin, Barbara All But One: One Woman's Quest to Climb the 52 Highest Mountains in the Alps 2012 UK 1st, 8vo, pp.xi, 274, 63 color & 8 bw photos, bw text illus, map, pictorial cloth; signed, issued w/o dj, cloth new #26267 $44.95
The Alpine Fourthousanders are 52 magnificent mountains that make up one of the mountaineering world’s major tick-list challenges. Swindin, who describes herself as an ‘ordinary climber’, is a former President of the Gloucestershire Mountaineering Club and Member of the Alpine Club. She describes, w[read more]
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Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research Mountain World 1958/59 1959 Allen & Unwin London 1st, 8vo, pp.208, 52 bw photos (12 fldg), 6 maps (1 color fldg), brown cloth; dj rubbed, 2” tear on front, unclipped, good+, cloth fine #11561 $14.00
Includes the first ascents of Gasherbrum II, Broad Peak, and Manaslu. Diemberger provides his account of the first ascent of Broad Peak and his final climb with Hermann Buhl on Chogolisa.
Neate j78, SB S62, see Yak S116.[read more]
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Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research (SFAR). Everest: The Swiss Everest Expeditions 1954 Hodder & Stoughton London 1st, 4to, pp.xv, (172), 6 color & 144 bw photos, 3 maps, green cloth; cloth rubbed, name, vg+. #23483 $39.00
The photo book of the 1952 Swiss expeditions, a good companion volume to Dittert's 'Forerunners to Everest'. This UK edition is harder to find than the US. Neate S206, SB S63, Yak S122.[read more]
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Sykes, Ian In the Shadow of Ben Nevis 2016 UK 1st, 8vo, pp.xi, 242, 64 color & 2 bw photos, wraps w/ French flaps; signed, new #27081 $25.95
In 1959, sixteen-year-old Ian ‘Spike’ Sykes left school and, after a short period of work at Leeds University, joined the RAF. Already a keen climber, he signed up on the promise of excitement and adventure and was posted to the remote RAF Kinloss Mountain Rescue Team in the north of Scotland. It wa[read more]
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Synnott, Mark The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life 2018 US 2nd, 8vo, pp.viii, 405, 29 color & 6 bw photos, yellow/white cloth; dj & cloth new #27671 $27.95
In Mark Synnott’s unique window on the ethos of climbing, his friend Alex Honnold’s astonishing free solo ascent of El Capitan’s 3,000 feet of sheer granite is the central act. When Honnold topped out at 9:28am on June 3, 2017, having spent fewer than four hours on his historic ascent, the world gav[read more]
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Synnott, Mark The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest 2021 US 1st, 8vo, pp.xviii, 429, 29 color & 5 bw photos, sketch, 4 bw maps, blue/grey cloth; dj & cloth new #27796 $28.95
A hundred-year mystery lured veteran climber Synnott into an unlikely expedition up Everest during the spring 2019 season, which came to be known as the year Everest broke. What he found was a gripping human story of impassioned characters from around the globe, and a mountain that will consume your[read more]
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Tabei, Junko & Helen Rolfe Honouring High Places: The Mountain Life of Junko Tabei 2017 Canada 1st, 8vo, pp.396, 62 color & 19 bw photos, blue cloth; dj & cloth new #27335 $31.95
Junko Tabei was born in Miharu, a small town in Fukushima prefecture, north of Tokyo, in 1939. An amazing mountaineer and lover of peaks, she founded the Ladies Climbing Club in 1969 and reached the summit of Everest on May 16, 1975, as leader of an all-women Japanese team. After Everest, Tabei devo[read more]
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Tabin, Geoff Blind Corners: Adventures on Everest and the World's Tallest Peaks 2002 US expanded ed, 1st thus, 8vo, pp.xix, 235, 26 color photos, wraps; signed, new #22677 $19.95
Tabin, a widely published writer, chronicles his adventures while climbing the seven summits, including three expeditions to Everest. This expanded edition has extra text detailing Tabin’s work with the Himalayan Cataract Project.[read more]
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Tabin, Geoff Blind Corners: Adventures on Seven Continents 1993 ICS Merrillville 1st, 8vo, pp.vi, 196, 33 color photos, blue cloth; dj unclipped, fine, cloth fine #4871 $24.99 $9.95
Tabin, a widely published writer, highly regarded opthalmologist, and co-founder of the Himalayan Cataract Project, chronicles his adventures while climbing the seven summits, including three expeditions to Everest (1981, 1983, 1988).
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Tabin, Geoff Blind Corners: Adventures on Seven Continents 1993 ICS Merrillville 2nd, prtg, 8vo, pp.vi, 196, 33 color photos, blue cloth; inscribed & signed twice, dj fine, cloth w/ owner’s name, fine. #10150 $29.00
Tabin, a widely published writer, chronicles his adventures while climbing the seven summits, including three expeditions to Everest. SB T000.[read more]
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Tabin, Geoff Blind Corners: Adventures on Seven Continents 1993 ICS Merrillville 1st, 8vo, pp.vi, 196, 33 color photos, blue cloth; signed, dj unclipped, fine, cloth tight, fine #27889 $39.00
Tabin, a widely published writer, highly regarded opthalmologist, and co-founder of the Himalayan Cataract Project, chronicles his adventures while climbing the seven summits, including three expeditions to Everest (1981, 1983, 1988).
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Tabor, James M. Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters 2007 US 1st, 8vo, pp.xxii, 400, 16 bw photos, 3 maps, blue cloth; signed, dj & cloth new #24679 $26.95
In the summer of 1967, an Arctic hurricane trapped seven climbers, members of Joe Wilcox’s 12-man expedition, at 20,000’ on Mount McKinley. Ten days passed while the storm raged and, despite the availability of resources, no rescue was mounted and all seven men died; their bodies never recovered. Th[read more]
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Tabor, James M. Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters 2007 US 1st, 8vo, pp.xxii, 400, 16 bw photos, 3 maps, blue cloth; signed Tabor & Wilcox, dj & cloth new #26503 $75.00
In the summer of 1967, an Arctic hurricane trapped seven climbers, members of Joe Wilcox’s 12-man expedition, at 20,000’ on Mount McKinley. Ten days passed while the storm raged and, despite the availability of resources, no rescue was mounted and all seven men died; their bodies never recovered. Th[read more]
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Tabor, James M. Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters 20007 US 2nd prtg, 8vo, pp.xxii, 400, 16 bw photos, 3 maps, blue cloth; signed, dj fine, cloth w/ name on rear endpaper, fine #25600 $19.00
In the summer of 1967, an Arctic hurricane trapped seven climbers, members of Joe Wilcox’s 12-man expedition, at 20,000’ on Mount McKinley. Ten days passed while the storm raged and, despite the availability of resources, no rescue was mounted and all seven men died; their bodies never recovered. Th[read more]
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Tairraz, Georges Le Massif du Mont-Blanc 1947 Challamel Paris 1st, 4to, pp.[56], 61 bw photos, map, wraps; near fine. #23343 $35.00
A nice collection of photographs by noted French mountaineer Georges Tairraz, with a preface by Roger Frison-Roche. In French, no English translation. Uncommon. Not in Neate.[read more]
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Talbot, Daniel, ed A Treasury of Mountaineering Stories 1954 Putnam NY 1st, 8vo, pp.xii, 337, blue cloth; dj ch, edge wear, vg-, cloth vg. #11630 $12.00
An anthology of fictional stories by such authors as Ullman, Knowlton, Frison-Roche, Mummery, and others. Neate X368.[read more]
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