This book tells the story of mountaineering from the 15th century to the present day, describing the most challenging mountains on each continent. Tales of history-making expeditions to the summits of Everest and K2, McKinley and Aconcagua, Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn join accounts of modern-day free- and speed-climbers on peaks from California to New Zealand. * Himalayas * Karakorams * From Alaska to Tierra del Fuego Africa * * Alps * Scotland * Dolomites * Australia * New Zealand * Antarctica * The hard-earned ...
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This book tells the story of mountaineering from the 15th century to the present day, describing the most challenging mountains on each continent. Tales of history-making expeditions to the summits of Everest and K2, McKinley and Aconcagua, Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn join accounts of modern-day free- and speed-climbers on peaks from California to New Zealand. * Himalayas * Karakorams * From Alaska to Tierra del Fuego Africa * * Alps * Scotland * Dolomites * Australia * New Zealand * Antarctica * The hard-earned photographs that grace the pages of this book are the work of men and women who have challenged nature and their own physical limits. Dramatic images offer not only rare glimpses of the world's most beautiful and inaccessible places, but graphic evidence of the rewards of mountain-climbing.
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