Big Trails: Great Britain & Ireland is an inspirational guide to the most iconic, spectacular and popular long-distance trails in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland. 
The twenty-five featured routes take the reader across the best of the British Isles. From the South Downs Way in South-East England and up the country s spine along the Pennine Way, the book delves into the heart of Scotland on the West Highland Way, along the Causeway Coast Way on Northern Ireland s coast, and into southern Ireland on the Beara Way. 
The book is designed to will inspire big adventures. Rather than being carried along the route, this guide provides everything you need to plan and explore further, including a general overview of the trails, specific technical information, overview mapping, key information and stunning photography. As well as this, each route specifies approximate timings devised using the Jones Ross formula, which allows for custom itineraries to be generated depending upon the speed of the user. Whether you re walking, trekking, fastpacking or running, let Big Trails: Great Britain & Ireland be your guide.

Big Trails: Great Britain & Ireland: The best long-distance trails: 1

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Kathy Rogers

Exercise & Fitness

Vertebrate Publishing

Big Trails: Heart of Europe is an indispensable guide to the most spectacular and popular long-distance trails in the Western European countries of France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy. 
The twenty-five featured routes cover the best that European trails have to offer, sweeping from the GR21 along the Normandy Coast to the GR1 Tour de Paris and King Ludwig s Way in Germany. Culminating in trails such as the Tour du Mont Blanc and Chamonix Zermatt Haute Route, the jewels of the Alps, this delves deep into Western Europe s most iconic routes. 
The book will inspire big adventures. Rather than being carried along the route, this guide provides everything you need to plan and explore further, including a general overview of the trails, specific technical information, overview mapping, key information and stunning photography. As well as this, each route specifies approximate timings devised using the Jones Ross formula, which allows for custom itineraries to be generated depending upon the speed of the user. Whether you re walking, trekking, fastpacking or running, Big Trails: Heart of Europe be your guide.

Big Trails: Heart of Europe: The best long-distance trails in Western Europe and the Alps: 2

In Wild Winter, John D. Burns, bestselling author of The Last Hillwalker and Bothy Tales, sets out to rediscover Scotland's mountains, remote places and wildlife in the darkest and stormiest months. He traverses the country from the mouth of the River Ness to the Isle of Mull, from remote Sutherland to the Cairngorms, in search of rutting red deer, pupping seals, minke whales, beavers, pine martens, mountain hares and otters. In the midst of the fierce weather, John's travels reveal a habitat in crisis, and many of these wild creatures prove elusive as they cling on to life in the challenging Highland landscape. 
As John heads deeper into the winter, he notices the land fighting back with signs of regeneration. He finds lost bothies, old friendships and innovative rewilding projects, and as Covid locks down the nation reflects on what the outdoors means to hillwalkers, naturalists and the folk who make their home in the Highlands. 
Wild Winter is a reminder of the wonder of nature and the importance of caring for our environment. In his winter journey through the mountains and bothies of the Highlands, John finds adventure, humour and a deep sense of connection with this wild land.

Wild Winter: In search of nature in Scotland's mountain landscape

Biographies & Memoirs

Burns, John

Professionals & Academics

Product Description ‘When it comes to training for climbing, you are your own experiment.’Beastmaking by Ned Feehally is a book about training for climbing. It is designed to provide normal people – like you and me – with the tools we need to get the most out of our climbing.It is written by one of the world’s top climbers and a co-founder of Beastmaker. It features sections on finger strength, fingerboarding, board training, mobility and core, and includes suggested exercises and workouts. There are insights from some of the world’s top climbers, including Alex Honnold, Shauna Coxsey, Adam Ondra, Alex Puccio and Tomoa Narasaki.Free from jargon, it is intended to provide enough information for us to work out what we need to train, and to help us to train it. About the Author Ned Feehally is one of the world’s top climbers and co-founder of Beastmaker, which manufactures wooden fingerboards and climbing training apparatus. He has been climbing for over twenty years, is a three-time British bouldering champion, has competed in world cup finals, and has been at the heart of pushing climbing standards in the UK over the last ten years. He is obsessive about data-led training but passionate about communicating what works and what doesn’t to regular climbers, which is what led him to write Beastmaking. He has climbed multiple Font 8cs, and in 2017 he climbed Trust Issues in Rocklands on his first attempt, joining a very small group of climbers to have flashed Font 8b+. In 2020 he made the first ascent of The Boss, one of the hardest problems on gritstone. He lives in Sheffield with his partner, Shauna Coxsey.

Beastmaking: A fingers-first approach to becoming a better climber

Sports & Outdoors

Feehally, Ned

Training

Day Walks in East Angliafeatures 20 routes between 5.7 and 13.9 miles (9.2km and 22.4km) in length, suitable for hillwalkers of all abilities. Researched and written by outdoor adventure expert Anna Paxton, this book covers walks around the must-see sites of East Anglia, including The Broads and Norfolk Coast Path, and takes you to lesser-known spots too, while exploring the rich history, heritage and wildlife of the area. 
See the seals and stroll along the dunes at Blakeney Point, explore nature reserves at Titchwell Marsh and Upton Broad, admire grand houses such as Blickling Hall, walk alongside windmills and waterways on The Broads and explore the historic settlements of Norwich and Bungay. 
Together with stunning photography, each route features Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 maps, easy-to-follow directions, details of distance and navigation information, and refreshment stops and local information.

Day Walks in East Anglia: 20 routes in Norfolk & Suffolk

Anna Paxton

Running Through the Dark: The rise and fall of an ultrarunner

Scotney, Jen

Finalist in Book of the Year: The Great Outdoors Award 2020On 25 January 2018, Élisabeth Revol and her climbing partner Tomasz Mackiewicz summited Nanga Parbat, the killer mountain. Situated in the Karakoram, the world s ninth-highest peak is an immense ice-armoured pyramid of rock rising to an altitude of 8,126 metres. Élisabeth and Tomek had completed only the second winter ascent of the mountain, and Élisabeth had become the first woman to summit Nanga Parbat in winter. But their euphoria was short-lived. As soon as they reached the top, their adventure turned into a nightmare as Tomek was struck by blindness.In her own words, Élisabeth tells the story of this tragedy and the extraordinary rescue operation that resounded across the globe as fellow climbers flew in from K2 to help the stricken pair. She confronts her memories, her terror, her immense pain and the heartbreak of having survived, alone. To Live is Élisabeth Revol s poignant tribute to her friend and climbing partner.

To Live: Fighting for life on the killer mountain

Elisabeth Revol

Science & Math

Day Walks in the Peak District The third title in Vertebrate Publishing's series of compact and portable hillwalking guidebooks, and the second volume of Peak District day walks. This book showcases 20 new circular routes in the Peak District, between 8 and 13 miles (14km and 21km) in length, suitable for hillwalkers of all abilities. Full description

Day Walks In The Peak District

Taylor, Norman

Review ‘A fascinating piece of work.’ – Mick Conefrey, Alpine Journal ― Alpine Journal'By the time he died in 2008, Hillary had become a figure of international renown not simply for his Everest record but for his efforts to give something back to Nepal. He was an almost mythic figure in his native New Zealand. Michael Gill’s book helps to strip away the myth to reveal a rounded, complex human being.' – Times Literary Supplement'A meticulously researched and well-written book.' – The Great Outdoors'For the climber, the book will be essential reading, but there is much here too in the more general appeal of a life well spent, in making the utmost of one's talents, and in man's pursuit of goals at the limit of human endeavour.' – Footless Crow Product Description Edmund Hillary – A Biography is the story of the New Zealand beekeeper who climbed Mount Everest. A man who against expedition orders drove his tractor to the South Pole; a man honoured around the world for his pioneering climbs yet who collapsed on more than one occasion on a mountain, and a man who gave so much to Nepal yet lost his family to its mountains.The author, Michael Gill, was a close friend of Hillary’s for nearly 50 years, accompanying him on many expeditions and becoming heavily involved in Hillary’s aid work building schools and hospitals in the Himalaya. During the writing of this book, Gill was granted access to a large archive of private papers and photos that were deposited in the Auckland museum after Hillary’s death in 2008. Building on this unpublished material, as well as his extensive personal experience, Michael Gill profiles a man whose life was shaped by both triumph and tragedy.Gill describes the uncertainties of the first 33 years of Hillary’s life, during which time he served in the New Zealand air force during the Second World War, as well as the background to the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953, when Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit – a feat that brought the pair instant worldwide fame. He reveals the loving relationship Hillary had with his wife Louise, in part through their touching letters to each other. Her importance to him during their 22 years of marriage only underlines the horror of her death, along with that of their youngest daughter, Belinda, in a plane crash in 1975. Hillary eventually pulled out of his subsequent depression to continue his life’s work in the Himalaya.Affectionate, but scrupulously fair, in Edmund Hillary – A Biography Michael Gill has gone further than anyone before to reveal the humanity of this remarkable man. Review ‘A deeply revealing story of the best-known New Zealander of all time.’ – Jim Sullivan, Otago Daily Times ― Otago Daily Times About the Author Michael Gill was a 22-year-old medical student in 1959 when he followed up on a newspaper statement that Sir Edmund Hillary was looking for additional climbers for his next Himalayan expedition. As a climber, photographer, doctor and writer, Michael was subsequently invited on nearly all the Hillary expeditions through to the last of them in 1977, a jet boat adventure up the Ganges River, and became a close friend of Sir Edmund’s. Edmund Hillary: A Biography is Michael’s third book, following Mountain Midsummer, a mountaineering autobiography, and Himalayan Hospitals, an account of the experiences of the doctors and other volunteers who worked for Hillary’s Himalayan Trust between 1961 and 2002. He lives in Auckland, New Zealand.

Edmund Hillary - A Biography: The extraordinary life of the beekeeper who climbed Everest

Gill, Michael

Biographies

Here is a list. It contains 100 climbing and mountaineering books. Some are brilliant; some are not. Some have won awards; some of them should have. Some of them are only a year or two old; some were written over 100 years ago. One of these books might make your top five; one of them might be the worst climbing book you've ever read - if you even finished it. Most of the big names are here - Harrer, Simpson, McDonald, Roberts, Krakauer, Bonatti, Kirkpatrick, Moffat (and Moffatt) - and some not-so-big names. Have a read, see what you think. And remember: it's just a list.

The 100 Greatest Climbing and Mountaineering Books

Reference

Barton, Jon

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

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