Mountaineers: Great tales of bravery and conquest

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Celebrating a tradition of bravery, thirst for knowledge, and pursuit of glory, this book tells the stories of the most famous mountaineers in history and explores the climbs that they conquered. Mountaineers is filled with stirring tales of adventure and intriguing characters, from the Brits who insisted on hauling cases of vintage champagne up to Everest base camp in 1924, to the Italian Duke of the Abruzzi who took 10 iron bedsteads up Alaska's Malaspina glacier. It chronicles the stories of the pioneers who first conquered the heights of this planet, from Otzi the Iceman to Edmund Hillary, important scientific discoveries that were made along the way, and accounts of great bravery, fellowship, altruism, and humour in the face of adversity. The book features fact files for over 100 famous mountaineers and stunning photography of the mountains they scaled, and contains rare artefacts that were found on their journeys, previously unpublished photographs, and specially commissioned route maps to recreate history's greatest ascents. The book also charts the development of technology, equipment, and techniques from the tweed hacking jackets and pipe-smoking of the early mountaineers to the sophisticated kit being used today. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION THE EARLY MOUNTAINEERS INTRODUCTION CLIMBING FOR SURVIVAL ötzi the iceman hannibal 20 WHAT MOUNTAINS MEAN fa xian the monk MOUNTAIN PORTRAIT: KILIMANJARO kukai MOUNTAIN LIVES: PUEBLO PEOPLE MOUNTAINS AND CHRISTIANITY petrarch antoine de ville josias simmler MOUNTAINEERING INNOVATIONS: ROPE conrad gesner john evelyn CLIMBING FOR SCIENCE AND ART INTRODUCTION A NEW FRONTIER johann jakob scheuchzer james hutton MOUNTAINEERING INNOVATIONS: ICE AXE horace-bénédict de saussure franz josef hugi james david forbes MOUNTAIN PORTRAIT: MONT BLANC alexander von humboldt louis agassiz MOUNTAIN LIVES: ICE MUMMIES THE CULTURAL HEIGHTS caspar wolf gabriel and mathias lory j m w turner EXPERIENCING THE MOUNTAINS: POETRY john ruskin THE FIRST SUMMITEERS william windham paccard and balmat MOUNTAINEERING INNOVATIONS: CRAMPONS paradis and d'angeville the meyer family gottlieb studer placidus à spescha peter carl thurwieser albert smith THE GOLDEN AGE OF ALPINISM INTRODUCTION A FASHION FOR CLIMBING alfred wills john ball christian almer MOUNTAIN LIVES: ALPINE GUIDES melchior anderegg john tyndall leslie stephen THE PRICE OF ADVENTURE charles hudson MOUNTAIN PORTRAIT: MATTERHORN edward whymper jean-antoine carrel EXPERIENCING THE MOUNTAINS: SPREADING THE WORD “AN EASY DAY FOR A LADY” walker and brevoort elizabeth le blond freda du faur BIRTH OF MODERN ALPINISM adolphus moore clinton dent alexander burgener albert frederick mummery zsigmondy brothers eugen guido lammer paul preuss BEYOND THE ALPS INTRODUCTION THE GREATER RANGES martin conway douglas freshfield MOUNTAIN LIVES: PUNDITS fanny bullock workman alexander kellas oscar eckenstein the duke of the abruzzi EXPERIENCING THE MOUNTAINS: PHOTOGRAPHY CLIMBING IN THE NEW WORLD conrad kain MOUNTAIN PORTRAIT: DENALI matthias zurbriggen ALPINISM IN JAPAN aritsune “yuko” maki MOUNTAINEERING INNOVATIONS: MAPPING SLAYING THE GIANTS INTRODUCTION THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH francis younghusband somervell and norton MOUNTAIN PORTRAIT: EVEREST george mallory MOUNTAINEERING INNOVATIONS: OXYGEN GEAR paul bauer willo welzenbach willy merkl abalakov brothers BACK OF AN ENVELOPE tilman and shipton charles houston fritz wiessner EXPERIENCING THE MOUNTAINS: FILM-MAKING THE HIMALAYAN GOLDEN AGE herzog and lachenal hermann buhl kurt diemberger MOUNTAIN LIVES: SHERPAS edmund hillary tenzing norgay compagnoni and lacedelli band and brown couzy and terray hornbein and unsoeld THE AGE OF EXTREMES INTRODUCTION THE NORTH FACES emilio comici anderl heckmair riccardo cassin THE UNWRITTEN RULES walter bonatti don whillans chris bonington yvon chouinard doug scott MOUNTAIN PORTRAIT: CERRO TORRE reinhold messner jerzy kukuczka WOMEN MOUNTAINEERS wanda rutkiewicz catherine destivelle kitty calhoun MOUNTAINEERING INNOVATIONS: PROTECTION FAST AND LIGHT wojciech kurtyka alex macintyre andrej stremfelj erhard loretan EXPERIENCING THE MOUNTAINS: CLIMBING BESTSELLERS mick fowler thomas and alex huber rolando garibotti steve house the giri-giri boys MOUNTAIN LIVES: PROFESSIONAL CLIMBERS MOUNTAIN DIRECTORY INDEX ACKNOWLEDGMENTS