Mountain Climbing History

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    • Adventures in Reaching the Summit
    • By: Robert Macfarlane
    • Narrated by: James A. Gillies
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert Macfarlane reveals how the mystery of the world's highest places has come to grip the Western imagination....

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    • Mountain Without Mercy
    • By: Broughton Coburn
    • Narrated by: Mark Peckham
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • A stunningly illustrated portrait of life and death in a hostile, high-altitude environment where no human can survive for long....

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    • Take the Next Step on Your Spiritual Journey
    • By: Eknath Easwaran
    • Narrated by: Paul Bazely
    • Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Entertaining, thought provoking, and moving, these four essays by spiritual author and teacher Eknath Easwaran offer an hour of inspiration for listeners of any faith, philosophy, or lifestyle....

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    • A History of a Fascination
    • By: Robert Macfarlane
    • Narrated by: Simon Bubb
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer...

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    • The Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams
    • By: Katie Ives
    • Narrated by: Petrea Burchard
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Using an infamous deception about a fake mountain range in British Columbia as her jumping-off point, Katie Ives, the well-known editor of Alpinist, explores the lure of blank spaces on the map and the value of the imagination....

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    • The Extraordinary Story of Love, Civil Rights, and Labor Activism
    • By: Norman Hill, Velma Murphy Hill
    • Narrated by: Arnell Powell, Kim Staunton
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-24
    • Language: English
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    • Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain is the remarkable story of a couple who came together during the Civil Rights Movement and made fighting for equality and civil and workers’ rights their purpose for more than sixty years....

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    • The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters
    • By: James M. Tabor
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In 1967, seven young men, members of a twelve-man expedition led by twenty-four-year-old Joe Wilcox, were stranded at 20,000 feet on Alaska's Mount McKinley in a vicious Arctic storm. Ten days passed while the storm raged, yet no rescue was mounted....

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    • Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering
    • By: Daniel Light
    • Narrated by: Richard Trinder
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-24
    • Language: English
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    • From the smoking volcanoes of South America to the great snowy ranges of the Himalaya, The White Ladder follows a cast of extraordinary characters—conquistadors and captains, scientists and surveyors, alpinists and adventurers—up the slopes of the world's highest peaks.

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    • The Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman
    • By: Cathryn J. Prince
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Fanny Bullock Workman was a complicated and restless woman who defied the rigid Victorian morals she found as restrictive as a corset. With her frizzy, brown hair tucked under a topee, Workman was a force on the mountain and off....

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    • Amongst the Cuillin of Skye
    • By: Simon Ingram
    • Narrated by: Richard Burnip
    • Length: 24 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Rising a kilometre out of the storm-scoured waters around Scotland’s Isle of Skye is a dark battlement of pinnacles and ridgelines: the Cuillin....

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    • A Family's Journey Through Brain Injury
    • By: Elise Rosenhaupt
    • Narrated by: Elise Rosenhaupt
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • At the start of his second year at Harvard, Martin was hit by a car and thrown 150 feet. He landed on his head, suffering severe traumatic brain injury....

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