Summary
Since the Pikes Peak gold rush in the mid-nineteenth century, women have gone into the mountains of Colorado to hike, climb, ski, homestead, botanize, act as guides, practice medicine, and meet a variety of other challenges, whether for sport or for livelihood. Janet Robertson recounts their exploits in a lively, well-illustrated book that measures up to its title, The Magnificent Mountain...
Tourism and Sustainability explores and challenges the most significant geopolitical ideas of the last two decades - sustainability, globalisation and development - and demonstrates their significance for understanding the emergence, growth and potential new forms of tourism in the Third World. This second edition of the...
This book is a thoroughly illustrated manual emphaising the avoidance of avalanche risk by good route-finding and recognition of dangerous slopes. It is written specifically for climbers, backcountry powder-hounds, and ski tourers. Ski tourers, telemark skiers, ski mountaineers and climbers are all at risk of being caught in an avalanche, yet many don't know how to see the signs and...
Every year, as many as one million avalanches fall throughout the world. One moment, the mountainside is calm; the next, tons of packed ice and snow come thundering down, burying everything in the way. Through fascinating facts and spectacular photography, author Stephen Kramer and photographer Patrick Cone explain the causes and effects of this awe-inspiring natural phenomenon. Young readers...
America's Mountains thoroughly explains the geological origins and history of North America's magnificent mountains. The book begins with an exploration of orogeny, the process of mountain formation. Subsequent chapters investigate the dramatic influence of these land masses on plants, animals, people, and the general environment.
Reinhold Messner is recognised as one of the greatest mountaineers of all time. When he reached the 8511-metre summit of Lhotse in Nepal, he became the first man to stand on all 14 of the world's 8000-metre peaks - an unbelievable achievement and a sensation in mountaineering history. What motivated Messner to be so dedicated in pursuit of his goal, despite unbelievable hardships, to keep...
This book includes the following papers:
- A.R. Riebau, Reflecting stars in a mountain lake: managing alpine air quality with new techniques for data gathering, pollution modeling, and data visualization
- P. Wezyk, M. Guzik, The use of "Photogrammetry-GIS" (P-GIS) for the analysis of changes in the Tatra Mountains' natural environment
- W. Fraczek, A. Bytnerowicz,...
The third edition of this climbing guide provides a description of routes south of Death Canyon, from Death Canyon to Avalanche Canyon, the Garnet Canyon Peaks, Grand Teton and the Enclosure, Garnet Canyon to Glacier Gulch to Cascade Canyon, Leigh Canyon, Moran Canyon, Webb Canyon and north of Webb Canyon. Tips on winter climbing in the Teton Range are provided.
Les accords de libre-échange conclus entre les Etats-Unis et le Pérou, la Colombie, ainsi que l’accord possible avec l’Equateur, ont été négociés avec la promesse de formidables opportunités d’accès au marché le plus riche du monde. Mais en réalité, ces accords vont avoir un impact dévastateur...
La mitad de los niños de Afganistán siguen sin acudir a la escuela, a pesar de haberse dado un incremento del 500 por ciento en el número de niños matriculados en los últimos seis años. Con la llegada de la democracia, el mayor símbolo de regeneración nacional era la ambición de que todos los niños – tanto niñas...
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