Second edition of this comprehensive biography of Britain's highest mountain. Masses of climbing history and photos but lost of other stuff of interest concerning its history and geography too. Superbly illustrated with loads of rarely seen archive photos and modern action shots.

A thoroughly researched and well illustrated book which details the first hundred years of climbing in The Cairngorms, from 1893 to 1993.

Freedom Climbers tells the story of a group of extraordinary Polish adventurers who emerged from under the blanket of oppression following the Second World War to become the world's leading Himalayan climbers. Winner of the Grand Prize, 2011 Banff Mountain Book Festival. Winner of the 2011 Boardman Tasker Prize.

A social, economic and cultural history of British rock climbing and mountaineering charting the conditions that gave rise to the sport, and the achievements and motives of those who have shaped its development over 200 years. Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award.

Learned but thoroughly scurrilous round up of the British climbing scene since its inception. Contains over 600 tounge-in-cheek potted biographies of British climbers mainly dead, but some living.

A collection of superb photographs from the late Victorian/Edwardian era, both climbing and otherwise, taken by Keswick's renowned climbing photographers, George and Ashley Abraham.

Cult classic biography of North Wales based climbing legend - the late Mo Anthoine.

Plucky Jaime Andrew loses best friend and all limbs in unbelievably ferocious storm on the Droites. Heroic rescue by French helicopter team is the first step to recovery and climbing again. A Douglas Bader for our times.

Soft flabby southern journalist, Richard Askwith, investigates the arcane culture of fell running and emerges leaner, meaner, and a heck of a lot fitter. A well received and well written book.

Mabel Barker was one of the leading female rock climbers in the Lake District in the '20s and '30s. She made the first female lead of the Great Flake on Central Buttress and the first female traverse of the Cuillin Ridge. Sorry - out of print.

Pete Boardman and Joe Tasker, two of Britain's most experienced Himalayan mountaineers, disappeared on the North-East Ridge of Everest in 1982. By that time, however, they had achieved remarkable things in the mountains, and written some remarkable books.

Alastair Borthwick's classic tale of climbing, walking, camping and bothying in Scotland in the 1930s. Sorry - out of print.

A perfect counter balance to Borthwick, Dave Brown and Ian Mitchell's classic tale of bothys, howffs, dosses and their denizens, brings the post-war world of impecunious mountaineers, walkers and other reprobates to life.

Biography of Herman Buhl, one of the greatest of mountaineers and author of the acclaimed Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage. An outsanding alround climber, he is most reverred for his high altitude exploits. He made the first ascents of two 8000m peaks, Nanga Parbat (1953) and Broad Peak (1957) , before being killed in a cornice collapse on Chogolisa the same year.

Semi-truthful autobiography of Himalayan bad boys Adrian and Alan Burgess.

From a tough life down t'pit, to a tough life oop t'hill - Andy Cave's Boardman Tasker award winner is a gripping yarn.

The latest mountaineering adventures in the life of Boardman Tasker award winning author and ex-miner Andy Cave, covering his climbs in Patagonia, Norway and Alaska, following the death of Brendan Murphy on Changabang in 1997. A sequel to Learning to Breathe.

Yvonn Chouinard's rags to riches story of his amazing rise from itinerant piton maker to founder and owner of Patagonia, an international company with a turnover of more than £100 million per year.

Large format autobiography of Jim Curran, writer, mountaineer, artist, photographer, film maker and raconteur. Beautifully illustrated with historical photos and colour reproductions of many of his paintings.

Intruiging biography of Millican Dalton, the man who in the 1920s quit his office job for a life of living in caves and tents in Borrowdale and eking out a living as a self-styled Professor of Adventure. Numerous period black and white photos.

Full of Myself is the aptly named and long awaited autobiography of Johnny Dawes, one of the foremost British rock climbers of the '80s and '90s.

Kurt Diemberger's collected works. Austrian, Kurt Diemberger is perhaps best described as the grand old man of Himalayan mountaineering. He is the only climber alive to have made the first ascents of two of the fourteen 8000m peaks, and survived the tragic events on K2 in 1986 when his climbing partner Jule Tullis died.

Arthur Dolphin was one of the leading English climbers of the late '40s and early '50s. This interesting book contains short pieces on Dolphin by various climbers and friends who knew him. It also includes a DVD containing some original film of Dolphin climbing (solo) at Almescliff and making an ascent of Kipling Groove.

Harold Drasdo's memoirs from early days in Yorkshire in the late '40s to the late '90s, encompassing such famous first ascents as North Crag Eliminate on Castle Rock in the Lake District.

The outrageous Tim Emmett and Neil Gresham, plus fellow assorted talented lunatics, recount tales of climbing derring do from all over the world. Large format with more pictures than words and with some stunning shots.

Biography of Ron Fawcett - Britain's leading rock climber in the '70s and '80s and thoroughly alround Mr Nice Guy - or was he? These pages reveal all.

Mick Fowler describes his early years from walking in the Lakes with his father, through to Scottish ice, Dover chalk, and culminating in the epic Golden Pillar of Spantik in the Karakorum.

The latest adventures of climbing tax-man and all round superhero Mick Fowler makes a spiffing good read!

Heinrich Harrer's incredible tale of his escape from internment in war time India, flight into Tibet and years spent as tutor to the Dalai Lama.

A classic of mountaineering literature, Heinrich Harrer tells the story of the harrowing first ascent of the Eiger’s North Wall, one of the most legendary and terrifying climbs in recorded history.

Heinrich Harrer's full autobiography, published just a few years before his death.

Autobiography by Anderl Heckmair, one of the successful team to make the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger.

Siegfried Herford was without doubt the best rockclimber of his generation and one of the best Britain has produced. Keith Treacher has obviously put a lot of research into this well written biography that includes a great many historical photos.

Autobiography of Steve House, renowned American high altitude exponent of fast and light philosphy.

The untold story of the British first ascent of Europe's tallest rock face. Troll Wall tells the gripping story of one of the most dramatic first ascents in British climbing history. Written days after their success, almost half a century ago, and newly rediscovered, Tony Howard’s account is a fascinating insight into the challenges of climbing a big mountain wall. Totally unputdownable!

Lunatic ice (and big wall) climber, Andy Kirkpatrick, takes to print with his amazing adventures to date, one of the most gripping climbing books to appear since Touching the Void.

In this brilliant sequel to his award-winning debut Psychovertical, mountaineering stand-up Andy Kirkpatrick has achieved his life’s ambition to become one of the world’s leading climbers. Pushing himself to new extremes, he embarks on his toughest climbs yet – on big walls in the Alps and Patagonia – in the depths of winter.

In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, John Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska's notorious Devils Thumb.

John Krakauer's rivetting account of the terrible 1996 storm on Everest in which eight climbers died.

Peter and Leni Gillman resurrect George Mallory, his life and conflicting passions. Written since the discovery of Mallory's body on Everest in 1999.

Will McLewin's well written and beautifully illustrated tale of climbing all the alpine 4000m peaks. Excellent maps and inspiring photos and route diagrams make this an inspirational book.

Life in the Stoney woodshed revealed... and more! Enjoyable biography of Jerry Moffat by the humorous Niall Grimes. All very inspiring, especially when you read just what he put himself through to get that coveted repeat of Strawberries.

In 1985 mountain guide Martin Moran achieved the first completion of all 277 Munros in a single winter with the support and companionship of his wife Joy. Their success was a feat of dedicated mountaineering and effective teamwork through the storms, snows and avalanches of an epic winter season in the Scottish Highlands. Martin’s account of the winter journey became a classic mountain narrative.

Two classic works on exploratory pre and post war Scottish Mountaineering by Bill Murray.

Autobiography of pivotal Scottish mountaineer and author Bill Murray, posthumously drawn together with painstaking thoroughness by Ken Wilson. Beautifully written.

The life and times of the legendary Lake District fell runner and shepherd Joss Naylor.

Paul Pritchard's admirably related long road to recovery after his horrendous Totem Pole accident. Culminates in an epic ascent of Kilimanjaro with other disabled climbers including Jamie Andrew.

Autobiography of Mark Radkte, a leading British climber of the 1980s and early '90s with some important UK contributions such as Phoenix in Obsidian on Iron Crag in the Lake District, climbed in 1989.

John Wilson Robinson was one the early instigators of Lake District climbing. This book by Michael Waller is not soley about his climbing, but also concerns his life a prominent member of the local farming community.

WH Tilman's companion on many of his mountaineering ventures was Eric Shipton, whose books are as equally well known and sought after.

Joe Simpson's epic to beat all epics - totally gripping. In 1985 Simpson and Simon Yates set out to climb the West Face of Siula Grande (6356m) in the Peruvian Andes.... Now read on!

Joe Simpson's sequel/prequel to Touching the Void and just as well written.

In Storms of Silence Joe Simpson recalls the severe snowstorm which put an end to an attempt with four others on Gangchempo and the infection which forced him to abandon the climb on Cho Oyu in Tibet. During that expedition he has a disturbing encounter with a party of political refugees and a 4-year-old boy fleeing across the Tibetan border. He becomes obsessed with stories of Chinese brutality in the old world Tibet they overran by force 40 years ago.

Star rock climber Robin Smith's life was tragically cut short at the age of 23 when he and Wilfred Noyce slipped on a descent in the Russian Pamirs and fell around 1000m. In a brief seven years he had already made a name for himself with a string of high class first ascents including, Glueless Groove (E2) on the Cobbler, Shibboleth (E2) on the Buachaille, and The Bat (E2) on Ben Nevis.

Lionel Terray's life story of historic first ascents in the Alps, Alaska, Andes, Patagonia and Himalays is one of mountaineering literature's acknowledged classics - it certainly has the best title!

Collected mountaineering works of the archetypal British hero and instigator of some of the finest expeditions from the time just before and just after the Second World War - Bill Tilman.

Collected works of extreme alpinist Mark Twight, who's been described as "a one-man literary punk band". These author's cut are the real deal, not the homogenized fluff offered up by magazine editors who are often unwilling to offend. Twight's words make it clear that climbing is only distantly about the summit.

Homage to South Georgia by Stephen Venables. An account of his first expedition there with Julian Freeman Attwood, Brian Davison, Lindsay Griffin and Kees 't Hooft during which the team infamously spent 23 days sheltering in a snow cave before emerging to snatch two major first ascents.

Stephen Venables recounts a gripping tale of near disaster on Panch Chuli V.

Mountaineering autobiography of Stephen Venables, prize-winning author and best known for being the first Briton to climb Everest without oxygen.

"He was a **", was allegedly Joe Brown's sole contribution to this warts and all biography of Don Whillans by Jim Perrin. Fortunately others were more forthcoming.

Simon Yates (famous as the man who cut the rope in Joe Simpson Touching the Void episode) writes a gripping yarn himself - the story of the ascent of one of the world's largest vertical rock-faces, the 4, 000-foot Central Tower of Paine in Chile.

The Wild Within is the third book from Simon Yates, one of Britain’s most accomplished and daring mountaineers. With his insatiable appetite for adventure and exploratory mountaineering, Yates leads unique expeditions to unclimbed peaks in the Cordillera Darwin in Tierra del Fuego, the Wrangell St-Elias ranges on the Alaskan-Yukon border, and Eastern Greenland. Laced with dry humour, he relates his own experience of the rapid commercialisation of mountain wilderness, while grappling with his new-found commitments as a family man. At the same time he must endure his role in the film adaptation of Joe Simpson’s Touching The Void, having to relive the events of that trip to Peru for a Hollywood director. We have 15 first edition copies signed by Simon Yates - first come, first served!