Mountain Climbing History
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Mountains of the Mind
- Adventures in Reaching the Summit
- By: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrated by: James A. Gillies
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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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 - and perennially draws legions of adventurers up the most perilous slopes. His story begins three centuries ago, when mountains were feared as the forbidding abodes of dragons and other mysterious beasts.
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Pretentious Narrator
- By karla arens on 09-07-20
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Mountains of the Mind
- Adventures in Reaching the Summit
- Narrated by: James A. Gillies
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 06-18-19
- Language: English
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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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Everest, Revised & Updated Edition
- Mountain Without Mercy
- By: Broughton Coburn
- Narrated by: Mark Peckham
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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A stunningly illustrated portrait of life and death in a hostile, high-altitude environment where no human can survive for long, Everest invites you to join Breashears, his climbers, and his crew as they make photographic history. Author Broughton Coburn traces each step of the team's progress toward a rendezvous with history - and suddenly you're on the scene of a disaster that riveted the world's attention.
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Everest, Revised & Updated Edition
- Mountain Without Mercy
- Narrated by: Mark Peckham
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 08-18-15
- Language: English
- 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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Climbing the Blue Mountain
- Take the Next Step on Your Spiritual Journey
- By: Eknath Easwaran
- Narrated by: Paul Bazely
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
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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. Through anecdotes, stories of the saints, surprising analogies, and wise insights, Easwaran encourages us to explore what spiritual living can mean today.
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Simple and profound.
- By Shawn Chapman on 09-19-16
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Climbing the Blue Mountain
- Take the Next Step on Your Spiritual Journey
- Narrated by: Paul Bazely
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Release date: 08-25-09
- Language: English
- 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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Mountains of the Mind
- A History of a Fascination
- By: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrated by: Simon Bubb
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride. In this ground-breaking, classic work, Robert Macfarlane takes us up into the mountains: to experience their shattering beauty, the fear and risk of adventure, and to explore the strange impulses that have for centuries lead us to the world's highest places.
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Mountains of the Mind
- A History of a Fascination
- Narrated by: Simon Bubb
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 11-13-20
- Language: English
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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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Imaginary Peaks
- The Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams
- By: Katie Ives
- Narrated by: Petrea Burchard
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
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Using an infamous deception about a fake mountain range in British Columbia as her jumping-off point, Katie Ives explores the lure of blank spaces on the map and the value of the imagination. In Imaginary Peaks she details the cartographical mystery of the Riesenstein Hoax within the larger context of climbing history and the seemingly endless quest for newly discovered peaks and claims of first ascents. Imaginary Peaks is an evocative, thought-provoking tale, immersed in the literature of exploration, study of maps, and basic human desire.
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Imaginary Peaks
- The Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams
- Narrated by: Petrea Burchard
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 10-01-21
- Language: English
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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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Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain
- 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
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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, overcoming adversity—with the strength of their love and commitment—to bring about meaningful change.
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Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain
- The Extraordinary Story of Love, Civil Rights, and Labor Activism
- 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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Forever on the Mountain
- 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
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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. All seven perished in what remains the most tragic expedition in American climbing history.
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Good story!
- By Anonymous User on 08-03-24
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Forever on the Mountain
- The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 11-29-22
- Language: English
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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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The White Ladder
- Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering
- By: Daniel Light
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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A masterpiece of compelling narrative history, The White Ladder describes the epic rise of mountaineering's world altitude record, a story of ever higher climbs by figures great and small of mountaineering. Daniel Light describes how climbers used revolutionary techniques to launch themselves into the most forbidding conditions. The expeditions illustrate evolutionary changes in climbing style, the advancement of high-altitude science, and the development of mountain climbing as an industry.
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The White Ladder
- Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering
- 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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Queen of the Mountaineers
- The Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman
- By: Cathryn J. Prince
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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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. Instrumental in breaking the British stranglehold on Himalayan mountain climbing, this American woman climbed more peaks than any of her peers, became the first woman to map the far reaches of the Himalayas, the first woman to lecture at the Sorbonne, and the second to address the Royal Geographic Society of London.
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Great story - great narrator
- By pierre f. saldinger on 05-24-19
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Queen of the Mountaineers
- The Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 05-07-19
- Language: English
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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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The Black Ridge
- Amongst the Cuillin of Skye
- By: Simon Ingram
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 24 hrs and 32 mins
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The iconic ridge of the Black Cuillin on the Isle of Skye is the UK’s most challenging mountain range. Over 11 kilometres long and above 3,000 feet in places, the ridge contains 11 Munros and 16 other summits. In The Black Ridge, Simon Ingram offers a powerful distillation of the atmosphere, history and experience of the ridge: Britain’s ultimate mountain range.
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The Black Ridge
- Amongst the Cuillin of Skye
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 24 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 08-19-21
- Language: English
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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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Climbing Back
- A Family's Journey Through Brain Injury
- By: Elise Rosenhaupt
- Narrated by: Elise Rosenhaupt
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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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. He resolved to get back. Climbing Back: A Family's Journey Through Brain Injury follows Martin's sister, father, and mother (the author) as they accompany Martin through rehabilitation and recovery. They find that they too must work to get back, to heal their own minds and souls.
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Live in a Hidden Part of Our Culture?
- By Anne L. Murphy on 02-27-17
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Climbing Back
- A Family's Journey Through Brain Injury
- Narrated by: Elise Rosenhaupt
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 01-04-17
- Language: English
- 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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