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Explore the heights of mountaineering with our collection of rare travel and exploration books, inspired by the daring feats of legendary climbers like Sir Edmund Hillary, Reinhold Messner, and Tenzing Norgay. Shop now.
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Views in the Himala Mountains.
FRASER, James Baillie.Original price £37,500.00 - Original price £37,500.00Original price £0.00£37,500.00£37,500.00 - £37,500.00Current price £37,500.00First edition of Fraser's Himala Mountains, the finest illustrated work on the Himalayas.James Baillie Fraser (1783-1856) was the eldest son of a ...
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Climbing and Exploration in The Karakoram-Himalayas.
CONWAY, William Martin.Original price £7,750.00 - Original price £7,750.00Original price £0.00£7,750.00£7,750.00 - £7,750.00Current price £7,750.00Rare limited edition. A fine set of the deluxe edition of a Himalayan classic, complete with all four volumes.Conway (1856–1937) developed a taste ...
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The Peaks and Valleys of the Alps.
BONNEY, THOMAS GEORGE; Elijah Walton, illustrator.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00Elijah Walton's fine colour plate views of the Western Alps, including the Matterhorn, Mont Blanc, Monte Viso, Aosta Valley, Dent Du Midi, and The...
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Karakoram and Western Himalaya 1909.
FILIPPI, Filippo de.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00Deluxe edition bound in vellum - presentation copy. the rare vellum bound deluxe edition. The full account of the Duke of Abruzzi's expedition to K...
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Climbing Reminiscences of the Dolomites.
SINIGAGLIA, Leone.Original price £5,500.00 - Original price £5,500.00Original price £0.00£5,500.00£5,500.00 - £5,500.00Current price £5,500.00Deluxe edition on japan paper. The very rare deluxe edition on Japan Paper, one of only 30 copies. Sinigaglia was the first great Italian climber i...
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Travels in the Himalayan provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab;
MOORCROFT, William; TREBECK, George.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00Scarce. Moorcroft's narrative traces the journey of the author and Trebeck from Bareilly to Bokhara in the years 1819 to 1825. En route to Bokhara...
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The exploration of the Caucasus.
FRESHFIELD, Douglas W.Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £4,000.00£4,000.00£4,000.00 - £4,000.00Current price £4,000.00Large paper copy - one of 100. One of the finest books on the Caucasus. Freshfield was a former President of the Alpine Club and an honorary secret...
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Blank on the map.
SHIPTON, Eric.Original price £3,950.00 - Original price £3,950.00Original price £0.00£3,950.00£3,950.00 - £3,950.00Current price £3,950.00With letter from the author. Shipton's scarcest and most important work with a personal letter tipped in on front pastedownThis book describes an e...
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The Karakorams and Kashmir
ECKENSTEIN, Oscar.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00Scarce personal reminiscences of Conway's 1892 Karakoram expedition.Eckenstein (1859 – 1921), was a member of the expedition led by Sir Martin Con...
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Travels through the Rhætian Alps,
ALBANIS BEAUMONT, Jean François.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £2,500.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00'Jean François Albanis Beaumont, (1755–1812), engraver and landscape painter, may have been a son of, or related to, the Piedmontese artist Claudi...
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Nanda Devi.
SHIPTON, E[ric].Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00With dust-wrapper. 'Shipton was a natural choice for the Mount Everest expedition of 1933 on which he reached 27,900 feet, but the experience of th...
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Travels, comprising observations made during a residence in the Tarentaise,
BAKEWELL, Robert.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00The account of a lengthy tour made by the geologist Bakewell (1767-1843), accompanied by his second wife. The work contains an early description i...
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Osenee voskhozhdenie na Mkinvartsveri (vershinu Kazbeka) 9 noiabria 1927
[CAUCASUS]. Асланишвили, Иосиф Антонович [ASLANISHVILI, I.A.].Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00Fine example of the first-hand account of the expedition to the peak of the mount Kazbek undertaken in November 1927 by a group of eleven mountain...
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Scrambles amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69.
WHYMPER, Edward.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00This landmark of mountaineering literature is considered by many to be the most famous mountain travel book of the period, by the most famous moun...
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The Italian Expedition to the Himalaya, Karakoram
FILIPPI, Filippo de.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00First edition in English. Chapters by leading mountaineers G. Dainelli and J.A. Spranger are also included and provide a remarkable overview of thi...
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Annapurna
HERZOG, Maurice.Original price £1,350.00 - Original price £1,350.00Original price £0.00£1,350.00£1,350.00 - £1,350.00Current price £1,350.00Inscribed by author. Herzog (1919-2012) was a French mountaineer who led this remarkable ascent of Annapurna, one of the highest mountains in the w...
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The life of Horace Benedict de Saussure.
FRESHFIELD, Douglas W.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Inscribed copy. The standard biography of the great Alpine mountaineer, Saussure, by another outstanding mountaineer.Inscribed and dated by the aut...
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The Oberland and its glaciers:
GEORGE, H[ereford]B[rooke]; EDWARDS, Ernst (photographer).Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £1,250.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00A fine example of this extremely beautiful and important work on the Swiss Alps and its Glaciers. It is one of the earliest of its kind to be illu...
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Coronation Everest.
MORRIS, James.Original price £1,100.00 - Original price £1,100.00Original price £0.00£1,100.00£1,100.00 - £1,100.00Current price £1,100.00Signed by Edmund Hillary. The author James (later Jan) Morris was the 'anonymous' Times special correspondent who had joined the successful Everest...
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Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69.
WHYMPER, Edward.Original price £1,000.00 - Original price £1,000.00Original price £0.00£1,000.00£1,000.00 - £1,000.00Current price £1,000.00Whymper, a leading figure in Alpine mountaineering, narrates in this volume details of his many brilliant climbs including the tragic account of h...
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