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Judgement Days
The author is a mountaineer, long established member of the Alpine Club, Leader for KE Adventure and Gear Editor for Climb magazine. This book tells his story of climbing in the Himalaya and Karakoram over the years. He attempts to explore where the narrow line between adventure and misadventure lies and what place luck has in events.
Queuing for Everest
When George leaves his sick wife, Sophie, and flies out to meet Thea at Everest Base camp, their goals seem simple: to continue an affair and to climb the highest mountain in the world. But when a sherpa guide and an elusive photographer join them, they enter a mysterious territory of ghosts. This ground-breaking play opened at the Crucible Theatre (Studio) in March 2000.
Glen Dawson
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The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
Edward Whymper, son of Josiah Wood Whymper (1813-1903) and Elizabeth Claridge (1819-1859), was born in 1840 in London, England. He married Edith Lewin (1883-1914). They had one daughter. In 1865 he was in the first party that successfully climbed to the top of the Matterhorn in Switzerland.
Dead Coach Walking
Renowned college basketball coach Tom Penders revisits his successful, if tumultuous, career in a new autobiography Dead Coach Walking: Tom Penders Surviving and Thriving in College Hoops. One of the winningest head coaches in NCAA Division I basketball history, Penders reflects on four decades steering programs at 7 universities-Tufts, Columbia, Fordham, Rhode Island, Texas, George Washington and Houston. As he lifted them from depths of "death row" to winning glory, he enhanced his reputation as "Turnaround Tom." Penders achieved success with distinction: he has coached more NCAA Division I basketball programs than any coach in history and has taken four different schools to the Division I...
The Beckoning Silence
Joe Simpson has experienced a life filled with adventure but marred by death. In a narrative which takes the reader through extreme experiences from an avalanche in Bolivia, ice-climbing in the Alps and Colorado and paragliding in Spain before his final confrontation with the Eiger, Simpson reveals the inner truth of climbing.
The New Mountaineer in Late Victorian Britain
This book is about the rise of a new ethos in British mountaineering during the late nineteenth century. It traces how British attitudes to mountains were transformed by developments both within the new sport of mountaineering and in the wider fin-de-siècle culture. The emergence of the new genre of mountaineering literature, which helped to create a self-conscious community of climbers with broadly shared values, coincided with a range of cultural and scientific trends that also influenced the direction of mountaineering. The author discusses the growing preoccupation with the physical basis of aesthetic sensations, and with physicality and materiality in general; the new interest in the physiology of effort and fatigue; and the characteristically Victorian drive to enumerate, codify, and classify. Examining a wide range of texts, from memoirs and climbing club journals to hotel visitors’ books, he argues that the figure known as the ‘New Mountaineer’ was seen to embody a distinctly modern approach to mountain climbing and mountain aesthetics.
