Category: Mountaineering

In 1979 a discovery was made in Scotland which proved to be of the greatest significance for British-Indian history - The papers of the Fraser family. The book describes the adventurous lives of the brothers in India.
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The Passionate Quest. The Fraser Brothers In India.

By: Archer Mildred & Falk Toby

Price: £11.00

Publisher: Alfalak/Scorpion Publishing : 1989

Seller ID: 57407

ISBN-13: 9780905906812

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 144pp, hardback, Brand New copy in dustwrapper.

In 1979 a discovery was made in Scotland which proved to be of the greatest significance for British-Indian history - The papers of the Fraser family. The book describes the adventurous lives of the brothers in India.
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The Passionate Quest. The Fraser Brothers In India.

By: Archer Mildred & Falk Toby

Price: £11.00

Publisher: Alfalak/Scorpion Publishing : 1989

Seller ID: 57406

ISBN-13: 9780905906812

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 144pp, hardback, Brand New copy in dustwrapper.

In 1979 a discovery was made in Scotland which proved to be of the greatest significance for British-Indian history - The papers of the Fraser family. The book describes the adventurous lives of the brothers in India.
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Mont Blanc. Discovery And Conquest Of The Giant Of The Alps.

By: Ardito Stefano

Price: £26.00

Publisher: Swan Hill Press : 1996

Seller ID: 73148

ISBN-13: 9781853107993

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 228pp, VG+ in VG+ dw

A story of the ascents of Mont Blanc told through text and pictures.
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Mont Blanc. Discovery And Conquest Of The Giant Of The Alps.

By: Ardito Stefano

Price: £24.00

Publisher: Swan Hill Press : 1996

Seller ID: 40286

ISBN-13: 9781853107993

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 228pp, VG in VG dw

A story of the ascents of Mont Blanc told through text and pictures.
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Trekking In The Himalayas. A Guide To The Finest Routes.

By: Ardito Stefano

Price: £9.00

Publisher: Swan Hill Press : 1995

Seller ID: 54871

ISBN-13: 9781853107047

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 167pp, Fine in Fine dw

Lavishly illustrated.
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Trekking In The Himalayas. A Guide To The Finest Routes.

By: Ardito Stefano

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Lustre Press : 1995

Seller ID: 54377

Binding: paperback

Condition: 167pp, paperback, VG+

Lavishly illustrated.
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The Mountains Of My Life. Journeys In Turkey And The Alps

By: Ashenden

Price: £8.00

Publisher: William Blackwood : 1954

Seller ID: 39115

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xii, 212pp, some speckling to spine, Good in Good dw with a few tears.

Climbing reminiscences of a young man with one ambition - to climb. It is the story of his progress through his achievements. Accompanied by the author's own photographs. Ashenden was the pseudonym for Sidney Edward Payn Nowill.
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The Mountains Of My Life. Journeys In Turkey And The Alps

By: Ashenden

Price: £8.00

Publisher: William Blackwood : 1954

Seller ID: 30891

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xii, 212pp, speckling to boards, some sellotape marks to front endpaper, foreedge foxing, Good+ in VG price clipped dw.

Climbing reminiscences of a young man with one ambition - to climb. It is the story of his progress through his achievements. Accompanied by the author's own photographs. Ashenden was the pseudonym for Sidney Edward Payn Nowill.
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The Mountains Of My Life. Journeys In Turkey And The Alps

By: Ashenden

Price: £18.00

Publisher: William Blackwood : 1954

Seller ID: 4288

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xii, 212pp, VG in VG dw with a couple of small chips

Climbing reminiscences of a young man with one ambition - to climb. It is the story of his progress through his achievements. Accompanied by the author's own photographs. Ashenden was the pseudonym for Sidney Edward Payn Nowill.
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Rock Climbing

By: Ashton Steve

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Crowood Press : 1987

Seller ID: 4914

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 159pp, Fine in Fine dw

Feet In The Clouds. A tale of fell-running and obsession

By: Askwith Richard

Price: £46.00

Publisher: Aurum Press : 2008

Seller ID: 74679

ISBN-13: 9781854109897

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 339pp, Fine in near Fine dw.

A fell running classic, now hard to find.
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Inauguration Of The Cabane Britannia On The Klein Allalinhorne Saas Fee, August 17th, 1912. and Obituary Notices and Portrait of Clinton Dent.

By: Association Of British Members Of The Swiss Alpine Club

Price: £175.00

Publisher: Association Of British Members Of The Swiss Alpine Club : 1913

Seller ID: 56284

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 52pp, original green cloth with gilt, VG. A very scarce title.

The Britannia hut is the only mountain refuge in the Alps built entirely by money raised by British climbers. Clinton Dent was the first president of the Association, 1909-12.
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Northwest Heritage. The Cascade Range

By: Atkeson Ray

Price: £17.00

Publisher: Charles H. Belding : 1969

Seller ID: 45879

ISBN-13: 9780912856018

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 181pp, inscription, VG+ in VG price clipped dw

Large format photo book.
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Valle D'Aosta Nelle Immagini Dei Viaggiatori Dell'Ottocento

By: Audisio Aldo

Price: £22.00

Publisher: unknown : 1986

Seller ID: 33333

Binding: paperback

Condition: 421pp, large paperback, slight bumping to bottom corners, nice clean copy, VG

Lots of beautiful sketches, text in French.
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Langdale

By: Austin J. A & Valentine R,

Price: £4.00

Publisher: F.R.C.C. : 1973

Seller ID: 62285

ISBN-13: 9780850280081

Binding: paperback

Condition: 256pp, protected softback, owner's signature, Good

Guide to the climbs of Great Langdale in the Lake District.
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Great Langdale

By: Austin J. A.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: F.R.C.C. : 1967

Seller ID: 52138

Binding: paperback

Condition: 238pp, protected softback, VG.

Guide to the climbs of Great Langdale in the Lake District, illustrated by W. Heaton Cooper.
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Great Langdale

By: Austin J. A.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: F.R.C.C. : 1967

Seller ID: 51304

Binding: paperback

Condition: 238pp, protected softback, VG.

Guide to the climbs of Great Langdale in the Lake District, illustrated by W. Heaton Cooper.
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Great Langdale

By: Austin J. A.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: F.R.C.C. : 1967

Seller ID: 31263

Binding: paperback

Condition: 238pp, protected softback, owner's signature, small water mark to bottom corner of pages, Good+.

Guide to the climbs of Great Langdale in the Lake District, illustrated by W. Heaton Cooper.
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Great Langdale

By: Austin J. A.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: F.R.C.C. : 1967

Seller ID: 42083

Binding: paperback

Condition: 238pp, protected softback, VG.

Guide to the climbs of Great Langdale in the Lake District, illustrated by W. Heaton Cooper.
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Great Langdale

By: Austin J. A.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: F.R.C.C. : 1967

Seller ID: 50154

Binding: paperback

Condition: 238pp, protected softback, VG-

Guide to the climbs of Great Langdale in the Lake District, illustrated by W. Heaton Cooper.
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Great Langdale

By: Austin J.A. & Valentine R.

Price: £6.00

Publisher: F.R.C.C. : 1973

Seller ID: 37917

ISBN-13: 9780850280081

Binding: paperback

Condition: 255pp, protected softback, owner's signature, Good+

Guide to the climbs of Great Langdale in the Lake District.
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Cambridge Mountaineering 1984

By: Austin Roger [Editor]

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Cambridge Mountaineering Club : 1984

Seller ID: 49295

Binding: paperback

Condition: 49pp, paperback, VG

Articles on Climbing The Kiwi Crags etc.,
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Thorough Guides. North Wales - Part One And Two (Two Volumes)

By: Baddeley M.J.B. & Ward C.S.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: T. Nelson & Sons : 1909

Seller ID: 49316

Binding: paperback

Condition: 160pp, 238pp, stiff card covers, Good+

Walks and Scrambles in the Highlands

By: Bagley Arthur L.

Price: £34.00

Publisher: Skeffington & Son : 1914

Seller ID: 56986

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 204pp, 12 plates, original red cloth, light foxing to endpapers, VG+. A lovely copy.

The Lakes of Northen Italy

By: Bagot Richard

Price: £9.00

Publisher: Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig : 1908

Seller ID: 68722

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 286pp, half leather with marbled boards, raised bands, no frontis, not sure if there was one, or half title, otherwise VG.

Lakeland Rock. Classic Climbs with Chris Bonington

By: Bailey Adrian

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson : 1985

Seller ID: 41945

ISBN-13: 9780297786382

Binding: paperback

Condition: 144pp, paperback, VG+

The book of the major television series celebrating the courage and skill of Britain's greatest rock climbers.
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Lakeland Rock. Classic Climbs with Chris Bonington

By: Bailey Adrian

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson : 1985

Seller ID: 39488

ISBN-13: 9780297786382

Binding: paperback

Condition: 144pp, paperback, VG

The book of the major television series celebrating the courage and skill of Britain's greatest rock climbers.
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The Land In The Mountains being an account of the Past & Present of Tyrol, its people and its Castles

By: Baillie-Grohman W.A.

Price: £48.00

Publisher: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co : 1907

Seller ID: 4143

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xxxi, 288pp, 82 plates plus maps, new spine with original front and rear red boards, professionally recased so a strong tight copy, VG+.

The people and castles of the Tyrol past and present.
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Tyrol

By: Baillie-Grohman W.A.

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Adam & Charle Black : 1908

Seller ID: 4056

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 208pp, 24 coloured illustrations by E.Harrison Compton, lovely clean and bright original boards, t.e.g., occasional pencil lining under text, light foxing, owner's signature, VG+.

The Central Alps. Part I and Part II. The Alpine Guide.

By: Ball John

Price: £90.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co : 1907

Seller ID: 63274

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Part I - xxviii, 326pp, original fawn cloth, 6 maps, VG. Part II - xix, 432pp, original fawn cloth, 9 maps, VG. Browning to endpapers.

The Western Alps

By: Ball John

Price: £36.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co : 1898

Seller ID: 64151

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 612pp, original cloth, abundant maps, cracking to front hinge, owner's signature, VG

A most detailed early guide.
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Travellers In The Alps / Hints For Alpine Travellers

By: Ball John

Price: £24.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green & co : 1899

Seller ID: 5819

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 164pp, new edition to the 1863, owners signature, lacking front cover, binding loose, some foxing to endpapers otherwise clean copy, Good affordable Reading Copy of an expensive book

Revision of the general intro to the 'Alpine Guide'. A new edition prepared on behalf of the Alpine Club by W A B Coolidge
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Derwent Valley. Rock Climbs In The Peak. Volume 5.

By: Ballard Jim & Marshall Ernie

Price: £4.00

Publisher: British Mountaineering Council/Cordee : 1981

Seller ID: 64105

ISBN-13: 9780903908603

Binding: paperback

Condition: 240pp, protected softback, some sunning to top edge, some annotation, inscr, owner's name and address, Good+

Let's Enjoy Ourselves

By: Balsillie Melville

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Melville Balsillie : 1960

Seller ID: 69851

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 131pp, owner's signature, VG in VG- .dw

Mid Moor and Mountain

By: Balsillie Melville & Westwood J. A.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: The Boy Scouts Association : 1958

Seller ID: 69852

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 178pp, owner's signature, VG in Fair chipped dw.

A handbook on expeditions for senior scouts and rovers.
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Peaks. Seeking High Ground Across The Continents

By: Bangs Richard

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Taylor Publishing : 1994

Seller ID: 62250

ISBN-13: 9780878338566

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 182pp, lavishly illustrated with stunning photographs, Fine in Fine dw

Richard Bangs and photographer Pamela Robertson circled the globe determined to experience and capture the unparalleled beauty and light found in high, remote places.
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Uberfallig In Einsamen Regionen

By: Banks Mike

Price: £170.00

Publisher: Engelbert-Verlag Balve : 1966

Seller ID: 47161

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 189pp, pictorial boards, front endpaper removed, VG. On the half title is an inscription to Tom Patey from Mike Banks, 'An den Herr Doktor Tom Patey - Ich mochte ihnen zeige das die Hoh Siebentausendsiebenhundertundachtzig Meter ist nicht die selbe als A

German edition of Snow Commando, an unassuming but striking record of adventure in Cornwall and the Arctic, in Switzerland and the Himalayas. A rather unique item from the library of Tom Patey.
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Walking In France

By: Bardwell Sandra, Roddis Miles, McCormack Gareth, Fairbairn Helen

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications : 2004

Seller ID: 69908

ISBN-13: 9781740592437

Binding: paperback

Condition: 368pp, paperback, owner's name and address sticker, VG+

Follow in pilgrims' footsteps, challenge yourself among spectacular Alpine peaks and glaciers, and wander through idyllic villages. This guide puts you on the right track for France's best walks.
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The Last Blue Mountain. The great Karakoram climbing tragedy

By: Barker Ralph

Price: £32.00

Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing : 2020

Seller ID: 71132

ISBN-13: 9781912560424

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xvii, 214pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper. One of only 200 Special Edition copies, cloth bound, numbered and signed by Ed Douglas who wrote the introduction.

The tragic true story of the 1957 expedition to Mount Haramosh in the Karakoram range in Pakistan. With the summit beyond reach, four young climbers are about to return to camp. Their brief pause to enjoy the view and take photographs is interrupted by an avalanche which sweeps Bernard Jillott and John Emery hundreds of feet down the mountain into a snow basin. Miraculously, they both survive the fall. Rae Culbert and Tony Streather risk their own lives to rescue their friends, only to become stranded alongside them.
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The Last Blue Mountain. The great Karakoram climbing tragedy

By: Barker Ralph

Price: £32.00

Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing : 2020

Seller ID: 71133

ISBN-13: 9781912560424

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xvii, 214pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper. One of only 200 Special Edition copies, cloth bound, numbered and signed by Ed Douglas who wrote the introduction.

The tragic true story of the 1957 expedition to Mount Haramosh in the Karakoram range in Pakistan. With the summit beyond reach, four young climbers are about to return to camp. Their brief pause to enjoy the view and take photographs is interrupted by an avalanche which sweeps Bernard Jillott and John Emery hundreds of feet down the mountain into a snow basin. Miraculously, they both survive the fall. Rae Culbert and Tony Streather risk their own lives to rescue their friends, only to become stranded alongside them.
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The Last Blue Mountain. The great Karakoram climbing tragedy

By: Barker Ralph

Price: £32.00

Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing : 2020

Seller ID: 71131

ISBN-13: 9781912560424

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xvii, 214pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper. One of only 200 Special Edition copies, cloth bound, numbered and signed by Ed Douglas who wrote the introduction.

The tragic true story of the 1957 expedition to Mount Haramosh in the Karakoram range in Pakistan. With the summit beyond reach, four young climbers are about to return to camp. Their brief pause to enjoy the view and take photographs is interrupted by an avalanche which sweeps Bernard Jillott and John Emery hundreds of feet down the mountain into a snow basin. Miraculously, they both survive the fall. Rae Culbert and Tony Streather risk their own lives to rescue their friends, only to become stranded alongside them.
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