Books Non-fiction novels
From pocket walking guide books to coffee table books filled with stunning outdoor photography check out some of the best outdoor books available. If you're looking for instructional guides for climbing, skiing, kayaking or mountaineering the we'll have the right book for you. We also stock a great selection of entertaining and inspirational non-fiction climbing and mountaineering books.
- 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.
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£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.
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£16.99
- Cordee Books K2: The Price of Conquest - Hardback Book
- In 1954, an Italian expedition climbed K2, the world's second highest mountain and arguably the most difficult of all the 8000m peaks. It was a cause for celebration in a war-torn country still trying to establish itself in the post-war world. But it was an ascent which was also to lead to recriminations, accusations of deceit, slanders, libels and court cases. The bitter aftermath contributed to the ending of the career of Walter Bonatti, the pre-eminent climber of the era, a man whose climb on K2, and subsequent night-out at 8000m had ensured victory. Now, after maintaining his silence for 50 years, Lino Lacedelli, one of the two-man summit team, finally tells his story of what happened on the summit climb. His account vindicates much, though not all, of what Bonatti has claimed about the positioning of Camp IX and that final climb. The book refutes much of what was written in the official account of both the expedition and the historic summit climb, adding fascinating detail to both the expedition and the Italy of the 1950s. It is one of the most important books on the history of climbing on the world's highest peaks to have been published in recent times. Lacedelli's account is illustrated with photographs from his personal archive, some of which have never before been published.
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£15.00
- 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.
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£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.
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£8.99
