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Touching the Void
- By: Joe Simpson
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Daniel Weyman
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Before climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were able to reach the unclimbed West Face of the remote Siula Grande, disaster struck....
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Don't listen whilst driving!
- By Andrew Matthews on 10-06-15
By: Joe Simpson
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The Fear Bubble
- Harness Fear and Live Without Limits
- By: Ant Middleton
- Narrated by: Ant Middleton
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Ant Middleton is no stranger to fear: as a point man in the Special Forces, he confronted fear on a daily basis, never knowing what lay behind the next corner, or the next closed door....
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nothing good here, move on
- By Andrew on 12-11-19
By: Ant Middleton
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- My Life’s Journey to the Top of Everest
- By: Ben Fogle, Marina Fogle
- Narrated by: Ben Fogle
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In April 2018, seasoned adventurer Ben Fogle and Olympic cycling gold medallist Victoria Pendleton, along with mountaineer Kenton Cool, took on their most exhausting challenge yet – climbing Everest for the British Red Cross to highlight the environmental challenges mountains face....
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My favourite book ever!
- By Stephen on 20-07-19
By: Ben Fogle, and others
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K2
- Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
- By: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering, with good reason....
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Excellent history of climbing K to
- By LtCol RD Rtrd on 24-01-16
By: Ed Viesturs, and others
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The Next Everest
- Surviving the Mountain's Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again
- By: Jim Davidson
- Narrated by: Jim Davidson, Tim Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet....
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Epic & Inspiring Read
- By Karen S. on 26-03-24
By: Jim Davidson
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No Shortcuts to the Top
- Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
- By: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time....
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Are you an 8000 m mountain nerd?
- By Emma on 04-02-07
By: Ed Viesturs, and others
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Touching the Void
- By: Joe Simpson
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Daniel Weyman
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Before climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were able to reach the unclimbed West Face of the remote Siula Grande, disaster struck....
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Don't listen whilst driving!
- By Andrew Matthews on 10-06-15
By: Joe Simpson
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The Fear Bubble
- Harness Fear and Live Without Limits
- By: Ant Middleton
- Narrated by: Ant Middleton
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Ant Middleton is no stranger to fear: as a point man in the Special Forces, he confronted fear on a daily basis, never knowing what lay behind the next corner, or the next closed door....
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nothing good here, move on
- By Andrew on 12-11-19
By: Ant Middleton
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- My Life’s Journey to the Top of Everest
- By: Ben Fogle, Marina Fogle
- Narrated by: Ben Fogle
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In April 2018, seasoned adventurer Ben Fogle and Olympic cycling gold medallist Victoria Pendleton, along with mountaineer Kenton Cool, took on their most exhausting challenge yet – climbing Everest for the British Red Cross to highlight the environmental challenges mountains face....
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My favourite book ever!
- By Stephen on 20-07-19
By: Ben Fogle, and others
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K2
- Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
- By: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering, with good reason....
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Excellent history of climbing K to
- By LtCol RD Rtrd on 24-01-16
By: Ed Viesturs, and others
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The Next Everest
- Surviving the Mountain's Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again
- By: Jim Davidson
- Narrated by: Jim Davidson, Tim Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet....
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Epic & Inspiring Read
- By Karen S. on 26-03-24
By: Jim Davidson
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No Shortcuts to the Top
- Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
- By: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time....
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Are you an 8000 m mountain nerd?
- By Emma on 04-02-07
By: Ed Viesturs, and others
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High Risk
- Climbing to Extinction
- By: Brian Hall
- Narrated by: Sam Stafford
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Through the seventies and into the mid-eighties, a cohort of young climbers challenged the siege mentality of their seniors on high mountains in the Greater Ranges with fast moving, lightweight expeditions run on a shoestring. Brian Hall was one of them....
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excellent
- By Black Rod on 14-10-22
By: Brian Hall
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Wild Winter
- In Search of Nature in Scotland's Mountain Landscape
- By: John D. Burns
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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In Wild Winter, John D. Burns, best-selling author of The Last Hillwalker and Bothy Tales, sets out to rediscover Scotland’s mountains, remote places and wildlife in the darkest and stormiest months....
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A light but thought-provoking listen
- By Amazon Customer on 28-03-22
By: John D. Burns
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The Last Hillwalker
- A Sideways Look at Forty Years in Britain's Mountains
- By: John D Burns
- Narrated by: John D Burns
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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John Burns takes you on a journey of more than 40 years from the hills of Britain to adventures in the Rocky Mountains of the US and Canada. This is an audiobook about the people who love mountains and whose journeys amongst them enrich their lives....
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A real account of a journey from novice onwards...
- By Joanne Barton on 06-09-18
By: John D Burns
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One Day as a Tiger
- Alex Macintyre and the Birth of Light and Fast Alpinism
- By: John Porter
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
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In the autumn of 1982, a single stone fell from high on the south face of Annapurna and struck Alex MacIntyre on the head, killing him instantly and robbing the climbing world of one of its greatest talents....
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Good for mountaineers
- By Gee Jackson on 23-10-19
By: John Porter
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Alive
- The Story of the Andes Survivors
- By: Piers Paul Read
- Narrated by: Paul Ansdell
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes....
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couldn’t finish listening to, returned title...
- By BenGee333 on 17-10-19
By: Piers Paul Read
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Blind Descent
- Surviving Alone and Blind on Mount Everest
- By: Brian Dickinson
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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Former Navy Air Rescue swimmer Brian Dickinson was roughly 1,000 feet from the summit of Mount Everest, also known as "the death zone", when his Sherpa became ill....
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A bit dull
- By P Lee on 04-03-19
By: Brian Dickinson
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A Fine Line
- Searching for Balance Among Mountains
- By: Graham Zimmerman
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Zimmerman writes of the exhilaration he feels while climbing but also the painful realization that summiting at all costs is an outdated model. As A Fine Line traces Graham's journey, mountain lovers everywhere will see themselves in this coming-of-age story of adventure and personal reckoning....
By: Graham Zimmerman
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In Some Lost Place: The First Ascent of Nanga Parbat’s Mazeno Ridge
- By: Sandy Allan
- Narrated by: Saethon Williams
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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In the summer of 2012, a team of six climbers set out to attempt the first ascent of one of the great unclimbed lines of the Himalaya - the giant Mazeno Ridge on Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth highest mountain....
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No Scottish narrators?
- By Tosca Marletta on 03-10-21
By: Sandy Allan
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Cairngorm John
- A Life in Mountain Rescue
- By: John Allen
- Narrated by: David Monteath
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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The Cairngorm mountains in Scotland are a magnet for climbers and walkers. John Allen spent more than thirty years in the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team saving the lost and injured....
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Unexpectedly, good!
- By Anonymous User on 20-03-24
By: John Allen
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Savage Arena
- By: Joe Tasker
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Savage Arena is both moving and exciting, an inspirational tale of the adventuring spirit which follows its own path, endlessly seeking new challenges, climbs and difficulties to overcome. It is not reaching the summit which counts, it is the journey to it....
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Gripping stories from the mountains
- By Hayley on 09-10-19
By: Joe Tasker
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Up and About
- The Hard Road to Everest
- By: Doug Scott
- Narrated by: Saethon Williams
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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At dusk on 24 September 1975, Doug Scott and Dougal Haston became the first Britons to reach the summit of Everest as lead climbers on Chris Bonington's epic expedition to the mountain's immense south-west face....
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what an amazing listen
- By travel18 on 13-12-23
By: Doug Scott
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The Mountain
- My Time on Everest
- By: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts - contributor
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Veteran world-class climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs—the only American to have climbed all fourteen of the world's 8,000-meter peaks—trains his sights on Mount Everest in richly detailed accounts of expeditions that are by turns personal, harrowing, deadly, and inspiring....
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Totally Misleading
- By Peter Page on 20-12-23
By: Ed Viesturs, and others
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127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Movie Tie- In)
- By: Aron Ralston
- Narrated by: Aron Ralston
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
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Yet with the new morning came an epiphany: if he could use the rocks vise-like hold to break his arm bones, his blunted pocketknife could serve as a surgeons blade....
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Excellent Story
- By Kate on 19-09-16
By: Aron Ralston
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Ghosts of K2
- By: Mick Conefrey
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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At 28,251 feet, K2 might be almost 800 feet shorter than Everest, but it’s a far harder climb. It will kill you on the way up and the way down....
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The story behind the story - very good
- By Andrew on 04-11-15
By: Mick Conefrey
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Call-Out
- A Climber's Tales of Mountain Rescue in Scotland
- By: Hamish MacInnes
- Narrated by: James Gibson
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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Call-Out is the definitive collection of tales about early mountain rescue in the Highlands of Scotland from Hamish MacInnes - Everest pioneer and arguably the most famous Scottish mountaineer of the 21st century....
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Terrific book, some horrendous pronunciation !
- By mrs j paterson on 15-10-23
By: Hamish MacInnes
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Life Lived Wild
- Adventures at the Edge of the Map (Patagonia)
- By: Rick Ridgeway
- Narrated by: Rick Ridgeway
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
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At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he’s spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents....
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Life affirming and engaging
- By Walter Rothon on 17-10-23
By: Rick Ridgeway
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Eiger Dreams
- Ventures Among Men and Mountains
- By: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Philip Franklin
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a stirring, vivid book about one of the most compelling and dangerous of all human pursuits....
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Step by step excitement
- By Amazon Customer on 16-06-19
By: Jon Krakauer
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Kiss or Kill
- Confessions of a Serial Climber
- By: Mark Twight
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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Sit back and join the ride with this collection of edge-of-your-seat climbing stories by Mark Twight, aka Dr. Doom....
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Pretty execrable
- By Mr. A. Wittenberg on 23-01-22
By: Mark Twight
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Moments of Doubt and Other Mountaineering Writings
- By: David Roberts, Royal Robbins - foreword
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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This collection of 20 essays and articles on mountaineering and adventure by David Roberts, selected from the published works of two decades, showcases one of the most highly regarded writers in the field....
By: David Roberts, and others
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Tides
- A Climber's Voyage
- By: Nick Bullock
- Narrated by: Nick Bullock
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
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Tides is a gripping memoir that captures the very essence of what it means to dedicate one’s life to climbing....
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Epic, emotional, and inspiring!
- By S. E. on 30-05-19
By: Nick Bullock
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The Bond: Two Epic Climbs in Alaska and a Lifetime's Connection Between Climbers
- By: Simon McCartney
- Narrated by: RJ Bayley
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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Simon McCartney was a young British alpinist climbing many of the hardest routes in the Alps during the late seventies, but it was a chance meeting in Chamonix in 1977 with Californian "Stonemaster" Jack Roberts that would dramatically change both their lives - and almost end Simon’s....
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interesting book
- By Helen on 09-08-19
By: Simon McCartney
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The Black Ridge
- Amongst the Cuillin of Skye
- By: Simon Ingram
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 24 hrs and 32 mins
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Rising a kilometre out of the storm-scoured waters around Scotland’s Isle of Skye is a dark battlement of pinnacles and ridgelines: the Cuillin....
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Honest, accurate and passionate.
- By Luke on 25-09-21
By: Simon Ingram
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Adventureholic
- Extraordinary Journeys on Seven Continents by Land, Sea, and Air
- By: Neil Laughton
- Narrated by: Neil Laughton
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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More than fifty expeditions across all seven continents – by land, sea and air – have led adventurer Neil Laughton to some of the most remote places in the world. Adventureholic tells the stories of Neil’s most unforgettable and daring adventures yet....
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Calamities
- By Zigisla on 09-02-24
By: Neil Laughton
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Everest the Cruel Way
- By: Joe Tasker
- Narrated by: Stewart Crank
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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On 30 January, 1981 Joe Tasker and Ade Burgess stood at 24,000 feet on the west ridge of Mount Everest. Below them were their companions, some exhausted, some crippled by illness, all virtually incapacitated. Further progress seemed impossible....
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People Will Climb Mountains
- By SocialGoose on 28-09-19
By: Joe Tasker