Bücher veröffentlicht von Vertebrate Publishing Ltd

The Evidence of Things Not Seen is the W.H. Murray's award-winning autobiography. Murray recounts his extraordinary life, from his involvement in WWII to exploratory climbs in the Himalaya.

John Gill: Master of Rock is a captivating look into the life, achievements and ethos of boulderer John Gill, written by friend and climber Pat Ament. This new edition is complete with photographs, personal impressions of Gill from climbers such as Yvon Chouinard, and an enlightening interview with Gill himself.

The 100 Greatest Climbing and Mountaineering Books by Jon Barton is a list which compiles some of the best climbing books ever written.

For Chris Bonington and Charles Clarke, few mountains were more alluring than Tibet's Sepu Kangri. Tibet's Secret Mountain is their poignant account of their two expeditions there, and the people, experiences and tensions that accompanied them.

When the Chinese Mountaineering Association opened many of China's mountains to foreigners in the 1980s, Chris Bonington thought it too good an opportunity to miss. Kongur is his account of the 1981 expedition to this unexplored peak, with a formidable team including Joe Tasker, Peter Boardman, Al Rouse and Michael Ward.

In February 1966, two teams planned the first direct ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, long renowned as the most dangerous climb in the Swiss Alps. The race was on and triumph or tragedy awaited. Award-winning writer Peter Gillman and eminent climber Dougal Haston were both there, and Eiger Direct is their account of the epic attempt.

When leading mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington contacted Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the first person to sail single-handed and non-stop around the world, for an interview, this request turned into a joint expedition to Greenland's unexplored Lemon Mountains. Sea, Ice and Rock is the story of this epic journey.

Roger Hubank's North Wall follows two climbers' attempt on the Alps' most demanding mountain, Piz Molino. They face both the physical challenges and psychological turmoil of the ascent.

Land of Tempest reveals Eric Shipton at his best - writing with enthusiasm and humour about his explorations in Patagonia in the 1950s and 1960s. It is essential reading for anyone who loves nature, mountains, climbing, adventure or simply the joy of discovering unknown places.

In 1937 two of the twentieth century's greatest explorers, Eric Shipton and H.W. Tilman, set off to explore an unknown area of the Himalaya, the breath-taking Shaksgam mountains. For Shipton and Tilman exploration was everything, with a summit a welcome bonus, and Blank on the Map is the book that best captures their spirit of adventure.

Kurt Diemberger's Summits and Secrets is a mountaineering autobiography like no other. It is a must-read for those wanting an insight into the life and achievements of one of the toughest high-altitude climbers the world has ever known.

Nanda Devi is one of the most inaccessible mountains in the Himalaya. For fifty years had repeatedly tried and failed to reach the mountain. Then, in 1934, Eric Shipton and H. W. Tilman found a way in. Their expedition is recounted in Shipton's Nanda Devi - one of the most inspirational travel books ever written.

Upon that Mountain is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer Eric Shipton. In it, he describes all his pre-war climbing, and his second Karakoram survey in 1939.

In Painted Mountains, Stephen Venables - the first Briton to climb Everest without oxygen - details the stories of two very different expeditions: the first ascent of 6,000-metre Kishtwar-Shivling in the Indian Himalaya alongside Dick Renshaw, before embarking on an Indo-British Expedition led by Harish Kapadia to Rimo: the Painted Mountain.

In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest. They climbed from the south, from Nepal, via the Khumbu Glacier - a route first pioneered in 1951 by a reconnaissance expedition led by Eric Shipton. Everest 1951 is Shipton's account of this expedition.

The Mountains of California not only details John Muir's visits to the magnificent mountains along the Sierra Nevada Range, but also the stunning glaciers, forests and wildlife he encounters; the enthusiasm contained within these pages is infectious.

The Story of my Boyhood and Youth is the memoir of the now internationally renowned John Muir, a Scottish-American boy subject to a most unusual upbringing, his transition into adulthood, and the path that led him to petition for the concept of protected national parks.

Travels in Alaska details three of John Muir's trips to Alaska: 1879, 1880 and 1890, each one embedded with stunning metaphors, a dedicated love of Mother Nature and a desire to protect and preserve wildness, this book is an insight not only into Alaska, but into Muir himself.

Steep Trails is a mix of John Muir's essays and adventure narratives. As Terry Gifford writes in the foreword, 'Most of Steep Trails' chapters are dispatches from Muir as travelling correspondent with a mixture of insights into local cultures, criticism of pollution and enthusiasm for everything wild.'

First published in 1901, Our National Parks is possibly the bestselling book of John Muir's wilderness-discovery titles and was certainly the most influential published in his lifetime. Muir's conservationist essays were a first at the time of publication, and are still highly applicable to twenty-first life.

In 1973, Scottish mountaineering legend Hamish MacInnes alongside climbing notoriety Don Whillans, Mo Anthoine and Joe Brown trekked through rainforest and swamp to climb the great prow of Mount Roraima. Climb to the Lost World is MacInnes' story of their climb.

That Untravelled World is the autobiography of Eric Shipton, one of the greatest adventurers of the twentieth century. First published in 1969, it is the story of an adventurer who, inspired by Edward Whymper, travelled to feral landscapes across the globe, and has in turn inspired generations of climbers and mountaineers.

Quest for Adventure is a collection of stories written by Sir Chris Bonington looking at the adventurous impulse which has driven men and women to achieve the impossible in the face of Earth's elements: crossing its oceans, deserts and poles; canoeing its rivers; climbing its mountains, and descending into its caves.

John Muir inadvertently traps us in his web of enthusiasm for the beauty and significance of Mother Nature. The Yosemite gives us the tools to construct a detailed mental map of the Sierra, and leaves us with the resolution to be more compassionate and environmentally mindful.

In the summer of 1869, John Muir joined a group of shepherds in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada mountains, that he might study and expand his knowledge of the plants, animals and rocks he found there. My First Summer in the Sierra is the colourful diary he kept while tending sheep and exploring the wilderness.

Bonington chronicles four expeditions to the Himalaya and Everest, including the 1975 South-West Face expedition on which he was leader and on which Doug Scott and Dougal Haston became the first Britons to summit the mountain. Bonington also recounts expeditions to K2 and The Ogre (Baintha Brakk) in the Karakoram, and Kongur, in China.

It is in A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf that we are given clues towards John Muir's future trailblazing movement for environmental conservation, and teaches us as much about Muir himself as it does the ecosystems in the wilderness across those 1,000 miles.

The Endless Knot is the harrowing account of the 1986 K2 disaster. Kurt Diemberger's account of the final days of accident, during which five climbers died, is lacerating in its sense of tragedy.