Ridgway Public Library

Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck.Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend to safety. Finally, Yates was forced to cut the rope, moments before he would have been pulled to his own death. The next three days were an impossibly...

Three renowned climbers navigate nature's harshest elements and their own complicated inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas.

"Roughly 750,000 people attempt to climb a Colorado Fourteener (14er) each year. Of those climbs, 99.99% start pre-dawn to avoid deadly afternoon thunderstorms. Now imagine doing just the opposite -- climbing during the stormiest part of each day and then sleeping on every 14er summit from sunset to sunrise in 95 days"--P. [4] of cover.

Called the best high-altitude climber in the world today by fellow climber Reinhold Messner, House chronicles his experiences in mountaineering, from raising funds for an expedition to suffering freezing cold bivouacs.

Information provided for each hike includes topographic map with GPS waypoints and elevation profile; difficulty and class rating tailored to Colorado's terrain; optional routes for further exploration; and trivia and history.

"In May of 2001, the author and his wife and father were stranded overnight on Mount Evans during a freak late-spring blizzard. Melissa punched through snow into a creek and ended up spending the night out in the cold, with her feet bare. She suffered severe frostbite on both feet and had to have eight of her toes amputated. This is the never-before published full account of this accident and their rescue from the mountains, as well as numerous other...

"Lionel Terray was the central figure in postwar climbing in France - an early repeater of the alpine north faces, and an innovative expeditioner who played a key role during the first ascents of Annapurna (1950) and Makalu (1955)." "Terray, born in Grenoble in 1921, made his first climbs in 1933. During the war he lived in Chamonix, married the ski instructor Marianne Perrollaz, bought a farm and formed a climbing partnership with Gaston Rebuffat....

Geronimo Stilton's true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here in New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse island, his books are bestsellers, his stories are full of fun-tastier than Swiss cheese and tangier than extra sharp cheddar. They are whisker licking-good stories and that's a promise. When his old Professor von Volt called to ask for help he agreed even though it meant trekking halfway around the world to Mouse Everest! The trip was long...