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Books
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Up: My Life's Journey to the Top of Everest€12.99
My eyes lifted to the horizon and the unmistakable snowy outline of Everest. Everest, the mountain of my childhood dreams. . .
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Endure : Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance€12.99
How high or far or fast can humans go? And what about individual potential: what defines a person's limits? From running a two-hour marathon to summiting Mount Everest, we're fascinated by the extremes of human endurance, constantly testing both our physical and psychological limits.
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Mountain of the Dead : The Dyatlov Pass Incident€11.50
In January 1959, ten experienced young skiers set out for Mount Otorten in the far north of Russia. While one of the skiers fell ill and returned., the remaining nine lost their way and ended up on another mountain slope known as Kholat Syakhl (or `Mountain of the Dead').
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Everest Calling: The Irish Journey (Hardback)Special Price €14.99 Regular Price €19.99
'Important story to be told... must-have on the bookshelf of mountaineers and non-mountaineers alike.' Irish Mountain Log
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Into Thin Air : A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster€12.99
One of the inspirations for the major motion picture Everest, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley. Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended the worst single-season death toll in the peak's history.
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Eiger Dreams : Ventures Among Men and Mountains€14.55
No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska's notorious Devils Thumb.