If you want to be carried away by the power of words and share the intoxicated joy of that man on that ledge with the snow down the back of his neck – well, the man is Gaston Rébuffat, and this is the book for you, says Ronald Turnbull.
Back in 1980, in an age of sludgy photos and plodding layout, this glossy collection of classic challenges hit the hidebound walking world with the shock of the new, recalls Ronald Turnbull. And the routes weren't half bad, either...
To experience the real freedom of the mountains, you've just got to break out of a prison camp to get to them, says Ronald Turnbull, of this enduring account of DIY mountaineering from World War Two. With lockdown still in progress we can all...
Wandering lonely as a cloud had a practical spin-off, when the poet Wordsworth turned his hand to...
This 'intensely self-mocking' account of how not to hike the Appalachian Trail leaves the reader in no...
This classic book is an exciting account of early Alpine ascents - and in that genre...
In the difficult years either side of WW2 William Heaton Cooper produced three books of Lakeland...
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