Mountain World in Danger - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mountain World in Danger write by Sten Nilsson. This book was released on 2013-11-05. Mountain World in Danger available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The changing climate, the warming of the world and acid rain are among the greatest problems facing us at the end of the twentieth century. This book describes, for the first time, the effects of these phenomena on the high mountains and the forests of Europe. Mountains and the frozen regions (the cryosphere) not only play a major part in our climatic system, but are also central to our water supplies. Yet our glaciers are shrinking, our lakes and soils are becoming acidified, our forests are damaged and the whole fragile ecosystem of ranges like the Alps and the Caucasus is threatened. Nilsson and Pitt present the evidence and assess the probable effects of these changes on mountain society, tourism, water, flora and fauna. They also examine the uncertainties. Above all they look, too, at the best possible strategies in response to What is happening and at what the next steps should be. Originally published in 1991
K2
K2 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook K2 write by Ed Viesturs. This book was released on 2010-08-03. K2 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of The Mountain and No Shortcuts to the Top “Gripping . . . reveals a good deal about the rarefied noble-gonzo world of high-altitude mountaineering.”—The New York Times Ed Viesturs, one of the world's premier high-altitude mountaineers, explores the remarkable history of K2 and of those who have attempted to conquer it. At the same time, he probes the mountain's most memorable sagas in order to illustrate lessons about the fundamental questions mountaineering raises—questions of risk, ambition, loyalty to one's teammates, self-sacrifice, and the price of glory. Viesturs knows the mountain firsthand. He and renowned alpinist Scott Fischer climbed it in 1992 and got caught in an avalanche that sent them sliding to almost certain death before Ed managed to get into a self-arrest position with his ice ax and stop both his fall and Scott's. Focusing on seven of the mountain's most dramatic campaigns, from his own troubled ascent to the 2008 tragedy, Viesturs crafts an edge-of-your-seat narrative that climbers and armchair travelers alike will find unforgettably compelling. With photographs from Viesturs's personal collection and from historical sources, this is the definitive account of the world's ultimate mountain, and of the lessons that can be gleaned from struggling toward its elusive summit.
Mountain World in Danger
Mountain World in Danger - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mountain World in Danger write by Sten Nilsson. This book was released on 2009. Mountain World in Danger available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Into the Clouds: The Race to Climb the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain (Scholastic Focus)
Into the Clouds: The Race to Climb the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain (Scholastic Focus) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Into the Clouds: The Race to Climb the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain (Scholastic Focus) write by Tod Olson. This book was released on 2020-04-21. Into the Clouds: The Race to Climb the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain (Scholastic Focus) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A nail-biting tale of survival and brotherhood atop one of the world's most dangerous mountains. This fast-paced, three-part narrative takes readers on three expeditions over 15 years to K2, one of the deadliest mountains on Earth. Roped together, these teams of men face perilously high altitudes and battering storms in hopes of reaching the summit. As each expedition sets out, they carve new paths along icy slopes and unforgiving rock, creating camps on ledges so narrow they fear turning over in their sleep. But disaster strikes -- in 1939, four men never make it down the mountain. Fourteen years later, a man develops blood clots in his legs at 25,000 feet, leaving his team with no safe path off the mountain. Filled with displays of incredible strength and heart-stopping danger, Into the Clouds tells the incredible stories of the men whose quest to conquer a mountain became a battle to survive the descent.
Danger on the Mountain!
Danger on the Mountain! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Danger on the Mountain! write by Gregg Treinish. This book was released on 2016-12-13. Danger on the Mountain! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. True stories of explorer Gregg Treinish's travels and adventures around the United States.
