Himalaya

'The most exhilarating history of mountaineering ... a riveting read' Jeremy Paxman 'A truly inspiring read' Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'It simply fizzes with insights into the sublime …

A survivor of the infamous 1996 Everest disaster, Beck Weathers went snow-blind in the Death Zone and despite staggering back to Camp 4, was in such a condition that he was …

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS'The best Everest book I've read since Into Thin Air. Synnott's climbing skills take you places few will ever dare to tread, but it's his …

‘One of the world’s most prominent radical scientists.’ The Guardian ‘Vandana Shiva is an expert [on the dangers of gobalization] whose analysis has helped us understand this …

Ladakh, or 'Little Tibet', is a wildly beautiful desert land up in the Western Himalayas. Passionately argued, it raises important questions about the whole notion of progress, …

Empires, explorers and sacred summits - an epic story of the roof of the world.In Himalaya, award-winning writer and climber Ed Douglas traces the intertwined histories of the …

‘If we were guaranteed success in everything we tried then life would be pretty boring.’Mainstream news reports about climbing are dominated by action from the world’s highest …

In 1996, eight climbers died atop Mount Everest in a single storm in a story that made headlines across the globe and formed the basis of Jon Krakauer's monumental bestseller Into …

The golden age of Himalayan mountaineering, from the mid-1970s to the 1980s, brought forth a generation of radical young climbers. With tiny budgets and high ambitions they …