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Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue is a comprehensive course in understanding glaciers, crossing them, avoiding crevasses, and rescuing crevasse victims. Topics covered include: how glaciers form and how crevasses develop; basic principles of glacier travel; route finding; knots and harnesses; holding a fall; rescue techniques, including self-belay and what a victim should do; and glacier skiing and sled hauling. Sidebars feature descriptions of accidents and near-accidents to emphasize the importance of the techniques presented.

Now in its third edition, Mexico's Volcanoes covers the third, fifth, and seventh highest mountains in North America -- El Pico de Orizaba, Popocatepetl, and Iztaccihuatl -- and two lesser-known peaks, La Malinche and Nevado de Toluca. This updated guide provides directions to all of the newly constructed roads to approaches and climbing routes, and information on routes that have been closed because of volcanic activity.

Comprehensive information on the country's most rewarding routes, how to get there, what to bring, what to expect, and the history behind it all. The book covers twenty-one major areas of Nepal, plus some alternatives and side trips, in all types of terrain.

A well informed guide to Tibet, featuring pre-trip planning, discussions of the most scenic routes, and an overview of Tibetan culture and history. Trek duration, distance and elevations are listed for each route description. The book also includes a helpful Tibetan language chapter, a 16-page photo color insert and 15 maps. With a trek to the sacred Mount Kailas, among other long- and short- distance treks.

Hermann Buhl was the first man to stand atop Nanga Parbat and his account has inspired generations of climbers, yet that classic, shaped and romanticized by a collaborator, does not reveal the man Buhl really was. Now celebrated mountaineer Reinhold Messner and journalist Horst Hofler publish Buhl in his own words in Hermann Buhl: Climbing without Compromise. Drawing text from Buhl's original climbing diaries, journals, and articles written for mountaineering publications of his time, Messner and Hofler present a portrait of the whole man- strong-willed, creative, and fragile.

Tramping in New Zealand is a highly innovative new tramping guide, that has been developed around the latest generation of 'bird's eye' computer-generated maps. These completely accurate panoramic overviews are constructed from map data, but because they can recreate a view of the landscape from any angle or height they provide a remarkably readable and clear way of understanding the lie of the land. For trampers, these bird's eye maps offer a superb way of showing a tramping route in three dimensions. The tramps covered include our best known Great Walks, such as the Milford Track, the Routeburn and the Tongariro Crossing, and many others from both islands such as the Queen Charlotte Track, the Rees-Dart near Queenstown and the Pinnacles Hut on the Coromandel. Route guide information and photographs provided by Shaun Barnett, one of New Zealand's most respected tramping authors.

New Zealand is a traveller’s paradise. Boasting beautiful natural areas, diverse landscapes, and a raft of activities and attractions it is no surprise it is regularly voted as one of the globe’s top travel destinations. However, with a plethora of websites, brochures and information centres, it’s easy to become overloaded with the sheer quantity of information available on what to do. How then, outside of the marketing hype, does someone get the ‘real oil’ on the best things to do in each key New Zealand location? Travelling New Zealand solves this problem.

At last a book of the best of Martin Hill’s exquisite works made over the past thirteen years around the world. The book is published internationally in association with PQ Blackwell, well known for the M.I.L.K project. Earth to Earth contains 97 full colour images as well as behind-the-work descriptions by Philippa Jones and essays by some of the leading thinkers and change makers of our time.