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Cordee Books SIGNED COPIES - On Thin Ice by Mick Fowler Book: LIMITED NUMBER OF SIGNED COPIES. The second volume of Mick Fowler’s autobiography; On Thin Ice covers alpine climbs in the Americas, Asia and the Himalaya. Holding down a conventional nine to five job with the Inland Revenue and raising a family while spending his holidays struggling on very demanding climbs in places as diverse as the cliffs of Jordan to remote peaks in deepest Asia via Taweche and Changabang has constantly amazed his peers.; £18.99

Cordee Books Vertical Pleasure - Hardback Book: Vertical Pleasure, Mick Fowler’s first set of climbing memoirs, published in 1995, is here reprinted in a revised edition. Beginning with the author’s early teenage years on easy British rock and Swiss 4000m peaks we follow him (and his mates) as they enthusiastically race through all aspects of British and alpine climbing.; £16.99

Cordee Books Philosophy Of Risk Book: Prehaps the most colourful character in British mountaineering, and a man who commanded international respect, Dougal Haston was one of the world's first mountaineers and a man with a rock-star-like reputation for heavy drinking, brawling and womanizing. Dougal led the first ascent of the Eiger Direct, featured in the BBC's "Old Man of Hoy" and performed startling feats on Everest and other great mountains. Jeff Connor had full access to Dougal's private journals, and reveals his developing ideas on philosophy - as well as his true thoughts on his peers - bringing to life one of the sport's most enduring figures.; £9.99

Cordee Books This Game of Ghosts Book: A sequel to the award-winning "Touching the Void", in which Simpson described a fall in the Himalayas which crippled and almost broke him. This is a memoir of the signposts that have directed him since childhood to measure fear and embrace the unknown.; £8.99

Cordee Books The Villain Book: Don Whillans has an iconic significance for generations of climbers. His epoch-making first ascent of Annapurna's South Face, achieved with Dougal Haston in 1970, remains one of the most impressive climbs ever made - but behind this and all his other formidable achievements lies a tough, recalcitrant reality: the character of the man himself. Whillans carried within himself a sense of personal invincibility, forceful, direct and uncompromising. It gave him sporting superstar status - the flawed heroism of a Best, a McEnroe, an Ali. In his own circle, his image was the working-class hero on the rock-face, laconic and bellicose, ready to go to war with the elements or with any human who crossed his path on a bad day.; £8.99