This book details ascending the 214 Lakeland Wainwright summits and accessing the area, without using the car, giving lots of information on using buses, trains, boats, bikes and skis as well as much more.
Tobin, The Stonemasters, And Me by Rick Accomazzo
Why did Alex Honnold write that Tobin Sorenson was one of the Yosemite climbers he most admired? This is the untold story of how Sorenson, who died at age 25, became the world’s best all-around climber during the late 1970s.
Mountain Style by Max Leonard & Henry Iddon
The first book to celebrate the history, vintage style and visual heritage of the UK’s outdoor clothing industry. It examines how mountaineers and manufacturers collaborated on clothing that sent people further, faster and higher, and crossed into the mainstream.
Wildly Different by Sarah Lonsdale
In Wildly Different, historian Sarah Lonsdale traces the lives of five women who fought for the right to work in, enjoy and help to save the earth's wild places. Evocative and inspiring, it shows how women can be 'wildly different'.
Eleri by James Mchaffie
Eleri loses a close family member to suicide. Eleri reflects on the reasons before taking aim at the people who pushed austerity. Set in North Wales it touches on landscapes, culture and being poor.
Moving The Needle by Dave Macleod
An ode to an old-school rock climbing apprenticeship and how the combination of a handful of decisions and influences, each seemingly innocuous in isolation, catapulted an unremarkable intermediate, Dave MacLeod, to the first ascent of the world’s hardest route.
Beyond The Snow Leopard by Bill Crozier
Australian-based, British-born doctor Bill Crozier sets out to seek the snow leopard in the Himalayas: Ladakh, Nepal and Tibet, guided by the writings of Himalayan explorers and Buddhist monks over the centuries.
Reaching Beyond by Denise Evans
Reaching Beyond is the autobiography of Denise Evans (1931–2023). It chronicles her extraordinary life as a pioneering adventurer, Alpine Club President, climber, sailor, and resilient mother of three boys who overcame personal challenges to inspire with her fearless spirit.
The Empty Rope by Dunstan Power
A climbing accident in Patagonia in 1990 defined two men's lives, making one famous and ruining the other. The truth about what happened has remained buried in the glaciers of the high Andes for too long…
The White Ladder by Daniel Light
Tracing the world altitude record from the ashy slopes of the sacred volcano Llullaillaco to the icy crags and crevasses of the Karakoram, Daniel Light takes a panoramic journey through the storied history of mountaineering before Everest.