Everest and Conquest in the Himalaya: Science and Courage on the World’s Highest Mountain [Kindle Edition]

A century ago the summits of the world’s highest peaks, Everest included, were beyond reach. Pioneering attempts to over

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In April 2014 Mark Horrell went on a mountaineering expedition to Nepal, hoping to climb Lhotse, the fourth-highest moun

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When, how, and why did the Himalaya become the highest mountains in the world? In 1800, Chimborazo in South America was

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The first book of its kind, Mind Wars covers the ethical dilemmas and bizarre history of cutting-edge technology and neu

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Dom Anscar Vonier, Abbot of Buckfast, was among England's greatest homilists and theologians of the early twentieth

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These pages don’t tell you what Jesus did — you know that already! Instead, they take you into the mind and heart of the

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On Thin Ice is Mick FowlerOCOs second set of climbing memoirs, following Vertical Pleasure. Here, the celebrated mountai

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In recent years, the Church has experienced a renewed and growing theological-pastoral interest in ministerial service,

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In August 1979 twenty-seven-year-old Mike Trueman set sail from the south-west coast of Wales, en route to Cornwall. The

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