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general
information, |
Mountaineering in Print
|
general
information, |
Safety on the mountains |
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British Mountaineering Council |
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Climbing |
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Allan Fyffe & Iain Peter |
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| Mountain Weather | - | Pledgley | |
| Mountain Navigation | - | Peter Cliff | |
| Land
Navigation Duke of Edinburgh's award |
- | Walley Keay | |
| Weather for climbers | - | Unwin | |
| First Aid
Manual (only use current edition) |
- | St
Johns Ambulance & The British Red Cross |
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| Rock
climbing (Adventure Sports Books) |
- | John Barry & Nigel Shepherd | |
| Avalanche safety for skiers and climbers | - | Tony Daffern | |
| Teaching Orienteering | - | Harveys & British Orienteering Federation |
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| Mountaincraft and Leadership by Third Edition |
 click here to my MLTB training page |
It has nearly 500 pages and is a
"must" for anyone serious about learning the theory of mountain safety. |
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interesting |
In no particular order of ranking
| Chris Bonington | ~ | I chose to
climb (Bonington's first book) |
| Sir Ranulp
Fiennes (if you ever get a chance to go to a Lecture by Sir Ran then GO) |
~ | To The Ends Of The Earth |
| Stephen Venables | ~ | Everest -
Kangshung Face (this is a bit slow to start but worth sticking with) |
| Tom Patey (this book gets reprinted at very regular intervals) |
~ | One man's mountains |
| Joe Simson (again this book has become a classic, with many reprints) |
~ | Touching
the void (a mind blowing story that will take only hours to read ~ you wont be able to put it down) |
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| Jon Krakauer | ~ | Into Thin
Air (this is a factual account of the Everest tradegy) |
| Henrich Harrier | ~ | The White
Spider (allthough not strictly a book that fits into this section, its a very good read about the Eiger North Face) |
| Andrew Greg | ~ | |
| Muriel Grey | ~ | Munroing Without a Beard |
| Sir Edmund Hillary | ~ | The View from The summit |
| Dougal Haston | ~ | Calculated risk |
| Dick Bass & Frank Ridgeway | ~ | Seven
Summits -the first men to reach the summit of each of the seven summits on each continent. - You will have to read the book to see which of the two actually made all seven |
| Rene Dasmaison | ~ | Total Alpinism |
| Hamish Mcinnes | ~ | Call out (all of Hamish Mcinnes mountain rescue books are good, but I think this one is the best) |
I had better stop here
after all
we don't just want a list of every book in my book case
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I have only chosen
what I consider to be some very good books
others I have not felt warranted attention
or
may not have read them
e-mail me with your suggestions
of other good books to add
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Guide
Books |
| Mountaineer | ~ | Chris Bonington |
| World Mountaineering | General
Editor : Chris Bonington Editor : Audrey Salkeld |
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| Great Climbs | ~ | General
Editor : Chris Bonington Editor : Audrey Salkeld |
| Classic
Rock Hard Rock Extreme Rock Cold Climbs The Big Walks Classic Walks and Wilderness Walks |
~ | These
seperate books have all been out for a few years now and the pictures are a bit dated to
say the least. But they form the basis for an excellent set of whats the best in the
British Isles. They
are edited by a small team |
| Robin N.
Campbell (SMC) |
~ | The
Munroist's Companion (a bit heavy going but a worthwhile read for intersting background information into Munro bagging) |
This Chart produced by Johnson & Ward, is typical of many diagrams of the worlds mountains that were included as an extra to the actual maps produced in atlases around the years 1850 to 1910. Indeed Thomas Mule produced a similar chart of "The relative hills of Great Britain" in the many editions of his atlases produced in the 1850's Other maps of this era often had the profile of mountains at the bottom of the sheet. |
Mountains and Rivers |
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choices
time |
Its certainly not a fair
choice to chose a text book
but my other choices are
| Sir Ranulp Fiennes | ~ | To The Ends Of The Earth |
| Rene Dasmaison | ~ | Total Alpinism |
| The Big Walks | ~ | Ken Wilson, Richard Gilbert |
