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Waters, Ryan & Hudson Lindenberger An American’s Grand Slam: A True Adventurer’s Unlikely Journey
2022 US 1st, 8vo, pp.194, wraps; new #27805 $16.95
On May 6, 2014 Ryan Waters accomplished something that has not been replicated since. He and fellow explorer Eric Larsen stood atop the geographic North Pole, after 53 grueling days battling their way over an ever-melting sheet of ice that fought against them the entire way. By reaching the pole, th[read more]
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Watson, J. S. ed. Stone Play: The Art of Bouldering
2007 UK 1st, oblong 8vo, pp.160, 21 color & 73 bw photos, wraps; new #25029 $29.95
A collection of writing and photography on the global phenomenon of bouldering, documenting its historical routes and representing the ‘problems’ and philosophies of respected boulderers, from the legends of John Gill, Pat Ament, and Jacky Godoffe to modern rock-gods such as Dave MacLeod, Bernd Zang[read more]
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Weathers, Beck Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
2000 US 1st, 8vo, pp.292, photo frontis, 9 bw photos, blue/white cloth; dj & cloth new #19096 $24.95
Beck Weathers is widely known as the person who miraculously survived the ferocious storm on Everest in May 1996. As a member of Rob Hall’s Adventure Consultants team he managed to reach the Balcony but soon lost his vision. His story tells of his climbs on Denali, Popocatepl, Pico de Orizaba, Elb[read more]
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 Weathers, Beck Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
2000 US 1st, 8vo, pp.292, photo frontis, 9 bw photos, blue/white cloth; signed Pete Athans, dj unclipped, fine, cloth tight, fine #20666 $25.00
Beck Weathers is widely known as the person who miraculously survived the ferocious storm on Everest in May 1996. As a member of Rob Hall’s Adventure Consultants team he managed to reach the Balcony but soon lost his vision. His story tells of his climbs on Denali, Popocatepl, Pico de Orizaba, Elbru[read more]
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Weathers, Beck Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
2000 US 1st, 8vo, pp.292, photo frontis, 9 bw photos, blue/white cloth; signed Weathers, Pete Athans, & Jamling Tenzing, dj unclipped, fine, cloth fine #20164 $175.00
Beck Weathers is widely known as the person who miraculously survived the ferocious storm on Everest in May 1996. As a member of Rob Hall’s Adventure Consultants team he managed to reach the Balcony but soon lost his vision. His story tells of his climbs on Denali, Popocatepl, Pico de Orizaba, Elbru[read more]
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Weathers, Beck Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
2001 US 1st thus, 8vo, pp.345, photo frontis, 8 bw photos, wraps; very good+ #26801 $5.00
Beck Weathers is widely known as the person who miraculously survived the ferocious storm on Everest in May 1996. As a member of Rob Hall’s Adventure Consultants team he managed to reach the Balcony but soon lost his vision. His story tells of his climbs on Denali, Popocatepl, Pico de Orizaba, Elb[read more]
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Webster, Don Scott Base Antarctica: The Early Years
2018 NZ 1st, 8vo, pp.xiii, 268, 251 color & 113 bw photos, 10 plans, 6 maps, appendices, errata slip, wraps; new #27658 $59.95
For two periods in the early 1960s young science technician Don Webster wintered over in Antarctica, helping build extensions to the New Zealand station at Scott Base. It was barely two years after Sir Edmund Hillary’s record-breaking 1957-58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
Webster descr[read more]
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Webster, Ed Snow in the Kingdom: My Storm Years on Everest
2000 US 1st trade ed, thick 8vo, pp.xv, 582, photo frontis, 176 color & 282 bw photos, 2 maps, 3 route maps, 8 photo-diagrams, blue cloth; signed, dj unclipped, fine, cloth w/ pen/date mark to ffep, else fine #17405 $29.95
Webster has seen Everest from all sides as a member of three very different teams. Here are his accounts of his attempt on the West Ridge Direct (1985) as part of a 20-member team, his solo ascent of Everest’s North Peak - Changtse (1986), and his participation in the audacious ascent of the Kangsh[read more]
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Wechsberg, Joseph Avalanche!
1958 Knopf NY 1st, 8vo, pp.254, 3 maps, blue cloth; dj vg+, cloth w/ bookplate, else fine #23520 $9.00 $7.20
The amazing story of the 1954 avalanches which destroyed the Austrian village of Blons.
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Weems, John Edward Peary: The Explorer and the Man
1967 Eyre & Spottiswoode London 1st, 8vo, pp.vii, 362, 16 bw photos, map eps, grey cloth; dj fine, cloth fine. #9356 $25.00
First biography of Peary to use his diaries and papers. See AB 101265.[read more]
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Weihenmayer, Erik Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man’s Journey to Climb Farther Than the Eye Can See
2001 US 5th prtg, 8vo, pp.304, 22 bw photos, blue cloth; inscribed, dj w/ price sticker & 1” tear on back, unclipped, vg, cloth fine #25708 $14.95
Weihenmayer was born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder, and was the first blind man to summit Denali. Soon he became the first blind person to scale El Capitan and then Aconcagua. He then summitted Kilimanjaro, scaled Alberta’s 3000’ Polar Circus, reached the top of Nepal’s Ama Dablam,[read more]
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Weiss, Jurg Klippen und Klufte
1954 Orell Fussli Zurich 8vo, pp.155, 17 bw photos, grey cloth; stamped Robert Underhill, cloth fine #15830 $9.00 $7.20
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Welky, David A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
2017 US 1st, 8vo, pp.viii, 502, map frontis, 35 bw photos, black/white cloth; dj & cloth new #27196 $28.95
In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, hundreds of miles from another human being, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted a line of mysterious peaks looming in the distance. He called this unexplored realm “Crocker Land.” Scientists and explorers agreed that the wo[read more]
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Wells, Colin A Brief History of British Mountaineering
2001 UK 1st, oblong 8vo, pp.vii, 120, 74 color & 75 bw photos, 11 sketches, photo eps, wraps; edges ruffled, vg #23035 $24.00
This nicely done book covers the full range of British mountaineering from 1850 to today. Includes profiles of a number of British climbers including Chris Bonington, Joe Brown, Mick Fowler, Leo Houlding, Paul Pritchard, Doug Scott, and others.[read more]
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Wells, Colin A Brief History of British Mountaineering
2001 UK 1st, oblong 8vo, pp.vii, 120, 74 color & 75 bw photos, 11 sketches, photo eps, wraps; signed Chris Bonington, new #22131 $35.00
This nicely done book covers the full range of British mountaineering from 1850 to today. Includes profiles of a number of British climbers including Chris Bonington, Joe Brown, Mick Fowler, Leo Houlding, Paul Pritchard, Doug Scott, and others.[read more]
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Wessels, Tom The Granite Landscape: A Natural History of America’s Mountain Domes, from Acadia to Yosemite
2001 Countryman Press Woodstock 1st, oblong 8vo, pp.203, photo frontis, 11 bw photos, 29 illus, 2 sketches, map, appendices, blue/grey cloth; inscribed, dj unclipped, fine, cloth fine #27271 $17.95
Wessels synthesizes history, geology, biology, and personal narrative to enhance our understanding and appreciation of these high, wild places - the granite summit balds of North America. He explores the unique and fragile ecosystem that is common to exposed granite expanses from Acadia to Yosemite,[read more]
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West, John B. Everest: The Testing Place
1985 McGraw-Hill NY 1st, 8vo, pp.xii, 187, 18 color photos, 8 figures, appendices, blue cloth; dj unclipped, fine, cloth fine #24356 $22.00 $14.95
West led the 1981 American Medical Research Expedition which conducted scientific and medical research from base camp up to the summit, reached by five climbers. This is a good book for those interested in the effect of altitude on the body and as a source for other scientific articles.
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West, John B. Everest: The Testing Place
1985 McGraw-Hill NY 1st, 8vo, pp.xii, 187, 18 color photos, 8 figures, appendices, blue cloth; dj fine, cloth fine. #18355 $35.00
West led the 1981 American Medical Research Expedition which conducted scientific and medical research from base camp up to the summit, reached by five climbers. This is a good book for those interested in the effect of altitude on the body and as a source for other scientific articles. From the c[read more]
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Weston, Rev. Walter Mountaineering and Exploration in the Japanese Alps
1896 Murray London 1st, 8vo, pp.xvi, 346, 35 bw photos, 2 color fldg maps, appendices, uncut, gilt-lettered green cloth; cloth spine/edges darkened, upper rear spine edge worn, miss ffep, name of John Ladd on half-title, maps w/ original folds & no tears, good+ #26529 $895.00 $645.00
Weston is considered to be the father of mountaineering in Japan. From the collection of William S. Ladd with his son’s name in small print. A scarce classic.
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Ladd, William S., MD. (1887 – 1949) – AAC Councilor (1923-25), Vice-President (1926-28), President (1929-31), Honorary Mem[read more]
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Wheelock, Walt Ropes, Knots & Slings for Climbers
1967 La Siesta Glendale reprint, 8vo, pp.36, figures, 4 tables, wraps; fine #25236 $5.00
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