Am Ende des Weges beginnt der Anfang    by Klaus Drägerhof
Price: $5.99 USD. 56010 words. Language: German. Published by Palmbyte EBook-Verlag on November 23, 2009. Nonfiction » Sports & outdoor recreation » Mountaineering.
Durch eine dumme Wette muss ein 45-jähriger Arbeitsloser die Alpen von Deutschland nach Italien in nur acht Tagen zu Fuß überqueren. Widerwillig und naiv geht er an die Sache heran. Schnell macht er die ersten Erfahrungen und lernt die unterschiedlichsten Menschen kennen. Aber das Wichtigste ist: Er lernt auf dieser Tour viel über sich selbst und gesteht sich endlich sein wahres Problem ein.

To Be Brave, My Life: Royal Robbins    by Royal Robbins
Price: $9.99 USD. 54020 words. Language: English. Published on May 20, 2010. Nonfiction » Sports & outdoor recreation » Mountaineering.
Royal Robbins' accomplishments as a rock climber are legendary. This first volume of his autobiography details his historic solo ascent of the Leaning Tower in Yosemite, and chronicles his youth growing up in LA. Robbins' adventurous life story stands as a beacon of inspiration to those who ever pondered how to reach higher by reaching within. He relates climbing in terms everyone can understand.

A Furious Exaltation    by Ronan Frost
Price: Free! 8100 words. Language: English. Published on May 2, 2012. Nonfiction » Sports & outdoor recreation » Mountaineering.
If you bite off more than you can chew, chew hard! This is a true story of a trip that put me in way over my head and out of my comfort zone; the experience of a day in the high peaks of the New Zealand Alps that has changed the way I think about life.

Kilimanjaro: One Man's Quest to Go Over the Hill    by M.G. Edwards
Price: $3.99 USD. 57020 words. Language: English. Published on March 31, 2012. Nonfiction » Sports & outdoor recreation » Mountaineering.
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Kilimanjaro: One Man's Quest to Go Over the Hill chronicles the author's attempt to summit Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. At forty years old and on the verge of a midlife crisis, he tried to change his life by climbing a mountain. This book is for climbers and hikers interested in climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and for anyone who feels over the hill and needs to make a life change.

Contour Lines: On the Path to a Thousand Mountains    by Mick Harney
Price: $4.70 USD. 75090 words. Language: English. Published on July 15, 2011. Nonfiction » Sports & outdoor recreation » Mountaineering.
Mick Harney returns with more unique perspectives on fell and hill walking in Scotland and the English Lake District. He offers a fresh crop of new and compelling insights, including many detailed descriptions of individual mountains, the paths we take to them, and what they reveal to and about us.

21st Century U.S. Military Manuals: Mountain Operations Field Manual - FM 3-97.6, FM 90-6 (Value-Added Professional Format Series)    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 68320 words. Language: English. Published on September 16, 2011. Nonfiction » Sports & outdoor recreation » Mountaineering.
Part of our value-added professional format series, the Mountain Operations Field Manual describes the tactics, techniques, and procedures that the United States (US) Army uses to fight in mountainous regions.

Points of Contact: On the Practice, Philosophy, and Pleasures of Fell Walking    by Mick Harney
Price: $4.70 USD. 59530 words. Language: English. Published on July 11, 2011. Nonfiction » Sports & outdoor recreation » Mountaineering.
Are you passionate about walking and climbing, perhaps in areas such as Scotland and the English Lake District? Or do you simply have a curiosity about those activities and those places? Points of Contact is the book for you. Knitting geology, history, and meteorology into an illuminating exploration of the world of fell and hill walking, it is by turns descriptive, humorous, and poetic.

21st Century U.S. Military Manuals: Military Mountaineering Field Manual - FM 3-97.61 (Value-Added Professional Format Series)    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 130670 words. Language: English. Published on September 13, 2011. Nonfiction » Sports & outdoor recreation » Mountaineering.
Part of our value-added professional format series, the Military Mountaineering Field Manual (FM 3-97.61) details techniques soldiers and leaders must know to cope with mountainous terrain. These techniques are the foundation upon which the mountaineer must build.

A Philosopher and A Firefighter Go Up A Hill    by S.A. Traina
Price: $5.55 USD. 57770 words. Language: English. Published on December 3, 2012. Nonfiction » Relationships and Family » Fatherhood.
(5.00 from 1 review)
A father-and-son memoir about a bookworm and a firefighter, a creature of contemplation and one of locomotion, the recollections of a child's journey from infancy to just before his wedding day set against an increasingly treacherous mountain climb. The theme is timeless: What's left for a father to tell and to give his son when that son has already become his own man?

Climbing Colorado's Fourteeners    by David Barth
Price: $2.99 USD. 15790 words. Language: English. Published on December 5, 2012. Nonfiction » Sports & outdoor recreation » Mountaineering.
This is a collection of stories documenting ascents of 14,000 foot Mountains in Colorado during the 1960s and 1970s.