Marc Azema The Conquest of Fitzroy
London: Deutsch/Fairlawn, Essential Books, 1957. 237pp, 12 plates, illus., maps, 22cm.
The first ascent of this rock spire in Patagonia.
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Edward Fitzgerald Climbs in the New Zealand Alps
London:Fisher Unwin, 1896. xvi, 363pp, 46 plates, illus., folding map in pocket, 25cm.
Edition of 1000 copies.
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Vilem Heckel Climbing in the Caucasus
London: Spring Books, 1958. 208pp, illustrated throughout with black and white and colour photographs, 28cm.
Foreword by Sir John Hunt.
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Michael Romm The Ascent of Mount Stalin
London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1936. xii, 270pp, 32 plates, illus., 22.5cm.
The first ascent in 1933 of what became to be known as Pik Communism (7495m) in the Pamirs. Translated from the Russian by Alec Brown.
Joe Simpson Touching the Void
London: Jonathan Cape, 1988. 173pp, 8 pages of colour plates, 4 pages of black and white plates, 2 maps, 24cm.
A modern classic. A harrowing account of a retreat from the Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. The book received great critical acclaim and won several literary prizes.
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Bradford Washburn and David Roberts Mount McKinley - The Conquest of Denali
New York: Abrams, 1991. 206pp, illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, 31cm.
A magnificent, profusely illustrated history of climbing on Mount McKinley with stunning photographs by Bradford Washburn.
Edward Whymper Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator
London: John Murray, 1891-2. xxvi, 456pp, 20 plates, 3 maps plus 1 in rear pocket, illus., 24cm. A supplementary volume, published before the main volume, contains scientific material.
Whymper's second great classic.
Walter D. Wilcox The Rockies of Canada
New York: Putnam, 1900. xii, 309pp, 42 plates, 2 folded coloured maps in end pocket, 25cm.
This is the revised and enlarged edition of an earlier volume, 'Camping in the Canadian Rockies', published in 1896.
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Simon Yates Against the WallLondon: Jonathan Cape, 1997. 176pp, 18 colour photographs, 2 maps, illus., 24cm.
The author's mountaineering exploits after his epic with Joe Simpson in 1985.
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