Covers the summits of Everest, Aconcagua, McKinley, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus, Vinson, and Kosciuszko/Carstensz.
Covers the summits of Everest, Aconcagua, McKinley, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus, Vinson, and Kosciuszko/Carstensz.
Rock crystal
by Mayer, Elizabeth, Stifter, Adalbert, Moore, Marianne
fromNew York Review Books classics
Two children, Conrad and Sanna, walk from their village in the Alps to visit their grandparents the day before Christmas. On their journey home, they take a wrong turn and are feared lost in a snowstorm.
Seemingly the simplest of stories--a passing anecdote of village life--Rock Crystal opens up into a tale of almost unendurable suspense. This jewel-like novella by the writer that Thomas Mann praised as "one of the most extraordinary, the most enigmatic, the most secretly daring…
Two children descend from the Alps after a visit with their grandparents only to take a wrong turn and find themselves lost on a glacier, with the snow falling and the night closing in. This seemingly simple fable of two children lost in an icy landscape is eloquent in its inno…
Eine geologische Berg- und Talfahrt Berge können auf unterschiedliche Weise entstehen: durch Kollision und Einengung, aber erstaunlicherweise auch durch den gegenteiligen Vorgang, durch Dehnung. Andere finden sich wiederum fernab in Gebieten, in denen schon seit langer Zeit kein…
Berge können auf unterschiedliche Weise entstehen: nicht nur durch Kollision und Einengung, sondern auch durch das Gegenteil: durch Dehnung. Selbst fern ab von beidem gibt es Berge: Über einem im Erdmantel aufsteigenden Diapir bauen sich Vulkane wie Hawaii auf, Inselberge hingeg…
When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10,1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising …
Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert McFarlane reveals how the mystery of the world's highest places has came to grip the Western imagination--and perennially draws legions of adventurers up…
This second edition of "Sustainable Mountain Development" is a history of the development of mountain environmental awareness from its origins during the Stockholm Conference on the Environment in 1973. This provided intellectual input into UNESCOs MAB Programme, especially MAB-…
This second edition of "Sustainable Mountain Development" is a history of the development of mountain environmental awareness from its origins during the Stockholm Conference on the Environment in 1973. This provided intellectual input into UNESCOs MAB Programme, especially MAB-…
"During the Heian period, the sacred mountain Kinpusen came to prominence as a pilgrimage destination for the most powerful men in Japan--the Fujiwara regents and the retired emperors. This book depicts their trek from the capital to the rocky summit, as well as the imaginative …
