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100 Classic Hikes in Oregon, 2nd Edition
Oregon's classiest hiking guidebook is all color and packed with the best trails the state has to offer -- which is saying a lot!
100 Hikes in Yosemite National Park: Includes Surrounding Hoover and Ansel Adams Wilderness Areas, Mammoth Lakes, and Sonora Pass
This full-color guidebook not only offers the best 100 hikes in and around Yosemite National Park, but is also one of the best-looking guidebooks you'll ever own.
1001 Climbing Tips
“1001 Climbing Tips is a refreshing take on the climbing guide genre. Irreverent, it has a laugh on virtually every page, but also some extremely useful advise and some points of genuine interest.” – Paul Pritchard, 2016 Banff Mountain Book Competition Jury
A Blistered Kind of Love: One Couple's Trial by Trail
In alternating chapters a young couple each tells their account of the epic Pacific Crest Trail adventure (a 2,655-mile hike) that deepened their bond -- or did it?
A Sideways Look at Clouds
A natural history, filled with intrigue and humor, of our ubiquitous yet utterly fascinating clouds
A Wild Promise: Prince William Sound
"'A Wild Promise: Prince William Sound' is unreservedly and urgently recommended for personal, community, and academic library collections and contemporary environmental studies reading lists." - Midwest Book Review
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land
Exquisite photography of the life in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, along with essays by writers such as Peter Matthiessen and David Allen Sibley
Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
A celebration in word and image of the birds who return each year to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to nest -- and how they link every point on the globe
Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
A celebration in words and photography of the birds that migrate each year to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to nest and return to every point on the globe
Being Caribou
A research project to the Arctic National Wildlfe Preserve slowly becomes much more as the author and his wife learn to hear the earth, pay attention to their dreams and slowly change, beyond their expectations, into being caribou.
Brotherhood of the Rope: The Biography of Charles Houston
The biography of Charles Houston, M.D., famed for leading the heroic K2 expedition of 1953 and his pioneering research in high-altitude medicine.
Caribou Rainforest: From Heartbreak to Hope
“In a new book, photographer David Moskowitz turns his lens on the story of a rapidly declining species and habitat” – Smithsonian
Extreme Alpinism: Climbing Light, High, and Fast
A full-color master class on extreme alpine climbing by one of the world's elite mountaineers
Found: A Life in Mountain Rescue
A thoughtful, elegant exploration of the hardships and joys of search and rescue, life and death, risk and motherhood
Going Higher: Oxygen, Man, and Mountains, 5th Edition
The seminal work on how the body responds to high altitude, including the current science science in this edition
Ice & Mixed Climbing: Modern Technique
Elite ice climber Will Gadd provides the instruction, tips, and technique for learning how to make your way up ice and mixed routes
Karakoram: Climbing Through the Kashmir Conflict
Danger permeates the thin air of the high Karakoram peaks—whether from a slip at 28,000 feet or a bullet at lower altitudes.
Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber
Twenty-six extreme, cynical, and over-the-top stories by Dr. Doom and the only collection of his work
My Old Man and the Mountain: A Memoir
Leif Whittaker finds a path of his own among a family—father, mother, uncle, cousins—of famous adventurers
Postcards from the Ledge
Selections of the best writing from the elite mountaineer Greg Child now in paperback.
Rock Climbing, 2nd Edition: Mastering Basic Skills
Best-selling climbing instructional, now fully updated, includes new, vetted alternatives to traditional techniques
Scraps, Peels, and Stems: Recipes and Tips for Rethinking Food Waste at Home
A non-strident but informative call to action: how to shop, store, cook, dine, and responsibly dispose of food waste
Stone Crusade (hardback): A Historical Guide to Bouldering in America
An all-encompassing history of bouldering and a practical guide to America's best bouldering areas.
The Bond: Survival on Denali and Mount Huntington
Friendship, sacrifice, and a fight for survival on the two most dangerous mountains in North America
The Climbers
“Jim Herrington’s wonderful new folio volume of portraits, titled simply The Climbers, aims at a lofty plateau. Herrington seeks to crystallize his own Golden Age…he tries not only to document the visages of his heroes in their older years, but also to plumb those faces for keys to the character beneath. It is as if Richard Avedon had photographed mountaineers rather than movie stars, minus the props and gimmicks.” - David Roberts, Sierra Magazine
Turning Homeward: Restoring Hope and Nature in the Urban Wild
“…this book exudes humility and hope.” – The Kitsap Herald
Urban Pantry: Tips & Recipes for a Thrifty, Sustainable & Seasonal Kitchen
A modern, sustainable approach for stocking an efficient kitchen
Wake Up and Smell the Planet: The Non-Pompous, Non-Preachy Grist Guide to Greening Your Day
Sustainability is the new "bling," and Grist knows how to wear it.
Walking to the End of the World: A Thousand Miles on the Camino de Santiago
Two sheltered Americans take a three-month break from careers, home, and the internet to backpack a nine-hundred-year-old trail across Europe
Yellowstone Migrations
Herds of elk, mule deer, and pronghorn antelope have migrated hundreds of miles over North America for millennia-—driven by their DNA, their routes follow ancient travel paths
Yellowstone to Yukon: Freedom to Roam
Essayists tell of their travels through the region and their experience of the land. They explain the need for Y2Y, based on new findings that reveal that isolated nature sanctuaries are a recipe for wildlife extinction.
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