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      A Slender Thread

      Stephen Venables

      A Slender Thread tells the gripping tale of an accomplished climber’s against-all-odds survival after a near-fatal plunge off one of the world’s highest mountains. Premiering in February, Venable will be…

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      Ollie: The True Story of a Brief and Courageous Life

      Stephen Venables

      At two, Ollie lost all his speech, as autism turned his life into a baffling challenge. Ollie had extraordinary courage and endurance. Time after time he bounced back, determined to…

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      Higher Than the Eagle Soars: A Path to Everest

      Stephen Venables

      Explores how and - more importantly - why the author became a mountaineer. This book reveals a series of adventures on four continents. It features the author’s dramatic success without…

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      Painted Mountains: First ascents in the Indian Himalaya

      Stephen Venables

      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…

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      Everest: Alone at the Summit

      Stephen Venables

      Venables shares this rousing account of his 1988 climb of the East Face of Mount Everest, where he led three unknown American climbers up a sheer avalanche-swept wall of snow…

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      One Day as a Tiger: Alex Macintyre and the Birth of Light and Fast Alpinism

      John Porter

      Grand Prize Winner - Banff Mountain Book Festival. One Day As A Tiger is John Porter’s poignant memoir of Alex MacIntyre, one of British mountaineering’s leading figures before his death…

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      Nanda Devi: Exploration and Ascent

      Eric Shipton,Stephen Venables

      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…

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      Everest 1951: The Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition 1951

      Eric Shipton

      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…

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      Mountain Guru

      Catherine Moorehead

      A legend among mountaineers, Doug Scott's expeditions, undertaken over a period of four decades, are unparalleled achievements. This book describes the extraordinary drama of them all, from the Himalayas to…

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      This Thing Called Kindergarten

      Dolly Venables

      Annie discovers that change really can be a good thing, if you're willing to take chances and embrace new opportunities!

      Meet Annie, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed little girl whose big day…

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      Upon that Mountain: The first autobiography of the legendary mountaineer Eric Shipton

      Eric Shipton

      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.<

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