Peaks of Glory: Climbing the World's Highest Mountains

Sports & Outdoors

Ardito, Stefano

Mountaineering

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An extraordinary stately "castle" made of rock and ice, Mont Blanc is one of the most awe-inspiring and impressive natural monuments in the world, an ideal destination for mountaineers in search of adventure. This volume, with the aid of enchanting pictures and captivating texts, illustrates the successive conquests of Mont Blanc, from the first mission in 1789 to the later adventures of people such as Edward Whymper, Armand Charlet, Riccardo Cassin, Walter Bonatti and Christophe Profit. It features over 380 breathtaking colour photographs and chronicles successive conquests of this imposing and challenging mountain.

Mont Blanc: Discovery and Conquest of the Giant of the Alps

Hiking & Camping

MOUNTAINEERS BOOKS+

This stunning volume highlights the best of mountaineering history with striking color photos and illuminating text. 
A collector’s book for climbers and armchair adventurers Large-format, full-color pictorials of the world’s highest peaks 
Vast fields of ice and slender limestone towers, slim crests of snow and massive granite columns. From Everest to Mont Blanc, from Patagonia to the Dolomites, the highest and most impressive peaks on earth have always challenged and attracted humans. 
With a blend of dramatic color photographs, historical black-and-white images, and early paintings and illustrations of the world’s most illustrious peaks, this large-format volume brings together the greatest adventures that have been undertaken in the mountains since the ancient Greeks made their first forays to Mount Olympus. All the biggest names in climbing-and the highest mountains-are here. In illustrating the adventures of such climbers as Mummery, the Duke of the Abruzzi, Bonatti, and Messner, this lavish volume also reveals that now, as always, the primary elements in any attempt on the most difficult peaks are the individual’s courage, intelligence, and fear.

History of the Great Mountaineering Adventures

Breath-taking photos are presented in an oversize format (10.5x14.5"), interspersed with climbers' quotes, maps, and text describing the history of mountain climbing and some of the most challenging mountains. No scholarly apparatus. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Peaks of Glory: Climbing the Worlds Highest Mountains

Lickle Pub Inc

Swan-Hill Press

Extraordinaire château de roches et de glaces, le Mont Blanc offre aux alpinistes un magnifique terrain d'aventures. L'histoire de son ascension débute en 1786. Elle se poursuit jusqu'à nos jours avec de grands alpinistes. Anecdotes et documents d'époque nous font revivre cette grande épopée.

Le Mont Blanc

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

GRUND

Guida ai monti delle Marche

Le Gemme

Mountains invites us into a world of intense beauty and timelessness as we gaze at hundreds of pictures of mountains from unique angles and hear the stories of those who climb or live on them. Since the late 19th century, mountaineering has fed our desire for conquest, challenge, and knowledge, attracting us irresistibly to the highest peaks. Mt. Everest, the Matterhorn, K2, Mont Blanc, Cerro Torre, and Mount McKinley have become opportunities for us to test our limits; they are mysterious stone divinities that challenge us and from which we can draw lessons. This book presents the most fascinating aspects of mountains, both from a human point of view and in terms of visual beauty. The trademark three-dimensionality of the Cubebook format is perfectly suited for conveying the majesty of mountains-here form and content fit beautifully as photographs and text together form a "cube" for the reader to explore. Mountains is wonderful to give as a gift or to keep in order to experience the powerful emotions that only the world's noblest peaks are able to stimulate.

Mountains (Cube Books)

Arts & Photography

Petretti, Francesco

Mantovani, Roberto

Camanni, Enrico

MERCALLI Luca

Ferrari, Erminio

Zanzi, Luigi

Photography & Video

White Star

Trekking in Himalayas (White Star Guides)

Travel

Asia

An extraordinary castle of rock and ice, Mont Blanc is one of the most striking natural monuments on Earth and provides mountaineers with a magnificent adventure ground. Started in 1786 with the first ascent to the summit and continued for two more centuries with the exploits of people such as Edward Whymper, Armand Charlet, Riccardo Cassin, Walter Bonatti and Christophe Profit, the mountaineering history of Mont Blanc is relived, page after page, in the words and the splendid photographs of this book. Grand spectacles of nature, the peaks of rock and ice that rise above 4000 metres - Grandes Jorasse, Aiguille Verte, Mont Blanc and the granite towers of Dru, Grand Capucin and Grépon - are also pages on which mountaineers and men have written some of their most fascinating tales.

Mont Blanc: Discovery and Conquest of the Giant of the Alps (High Altitude)

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