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Year after year, in spite of monumental dangers, climbers return to the world's most difficult mountains, whether it's the cliffs of Yosemite or the peaks of the Himalaya. At these places, even the most cautious climber must accept the possibilities of moving unroped to save time, braving terrain vulnerable to rockfall, trusting afternoon thunderstorms to hold off long enough to get below treeline. Mistakes, bad weather and bad luck often lead...

Most people associate storms and other big weather with deathwith the kind of force that makes each of us wonder about life, and time and the nature of our surroundings. Some people go out looking for bad weather or go to places where theyre likely to encounter it. Others have the misfortune of being at the wrong place at the wrong time.

The Mafia. La Cosa Nostra. The underground, and often not-so-underground, organization and syndicate of criminal activity that has been a part of American history for the past century. Forget television and movies, hear the true stories of the inner workings of his chaotic, violent, and surprisingly human world, a world of respect, tradition, and honor.

Explore offers first-hand accounts from the worlds boldest explorers, men and women encountering storms, starvation, cannibals, predators and disease in their pursuit of adventure. Their stories are immediate, passionate and dramatic accounts of contact with the unknown, discovered in the Himalaya, the ruins of Peru, the jungles of New Guinea and the Amazon, the ice flows of the Arctic, along with death in the big city. With selections from Ti...

Hear the stories of men and women battling the elements, and sometimes each other, to stay alive, confronting savage storms, rogue waves, icebergs, sharks, starvation and their own fear and suffering.

Epic" a mountaineering term that evokes a sense of treacherous disaster. The climb that went wrong: fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches, days spent tentbound running low on food, water and oxygen, surviving broken bones and shattered spirits.

Everest and K2two of the most feared and respected peaks in the world. High offers a unique perspective on climbing these two peaks, from early exploration disasters, to the modern tragedies.

Dark offers chilling stories, both fiction and real life, about the things that scare us the most: murder, hauntings, visitations, insanity and our own vulnerability! Examined through the eyes of some of the world's most gifted writers Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Frost, W.W. Jacobs, Iain Banks, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Paul Bowles, Will Self, Marjorie Bowen, A.M. Burrage, and Blue Balliett we feel the malice of serial murderers, ...

This book tells the gripping story of Boningtons Boys, a band legendary climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everests first ascent. It is a story of tremendous courage, astonishing achievement, and heartbreaking loss.

Climb" focuses on the most exciting descriptions of the hardest climbing in the world, from the cliffs of Yosemite to the windswept towers of Patagonia to the high peaks of the Himalayas. 16 photos.

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The Boys of Everest', which received enormous praise when published in hardback, tells the story of a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent. It is a story of tremendous courage, astonishing acheivement and heartbreaking loss.

Rough Water is an adventure audiobook at its most compelling. Hear the stories of men and women battling the elements, and sometimes each other, to stay alive, confronting savage storms, rogue waves, icebergs, sharks, starvation and their own fear and suffering. From Sebastian Junger's The Whale Hunter to Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny to Lawrence Beesley's The Loss of The S.S. Titanic, Rough Water is a unique collection of the finest writing ...

Epic -- a mountaineering term that evokes a sense of treacherous disaster. The climb that went wrong: fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches, days spent tent-bound running low on food, water and oxygen, surviving broken bones and shattered spirits. With writing from Greg Child, David Roberts, Stephen Venables, Alfred Lansing and others, Epic is a collection of the most memorable accounts of legend-making expeditions to the world'...

En este libro encontrarás una selección de la mejor literatura de montaña en todas sus modalidades, desde una arriesgada escalada a gran altitud en el Everest, hasta el reto que plantean los novecientos metros verticales de la roca de El Capitán. Al igual que los títulos que le han precedido en esta colección, Al Límite 2 nos ofrece aventuras de montaña a través de los ojos de escritores - montañeros con talento, cuyo nexo de unión es el pelig...

The wilderness -- forest, desert, glacier, jungle -- has been the scene of the past century's most exciting stories. Wild offers gripping tales for anyone fascinated by the beauty and the danger that awaits us all in the wild.

New York has always inspired larger-than-life tales and great writing, but on the topic of cops and crime it provides more raw material than almost anywhere else. A long history of classic films, television hits, and of course, books, have turned the New York City Police Department into a symbol for the dark drama of urban police work. And the rich and colourful vein of literature which has grown up around this culture makes NYPD not only a gr...

World War II killed 60 million people and inflicted wounds, bereavement, poverty and suffering on countless others. The War presents a mosaic of memoirs from soldiers, citizens and historians, detailing the immense tragedy that stretched from the Western Front to the Pacific Theater.