Mountain Survival

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. It was the largest earthquake in Nepal in 81 years and killed about 8,900 people. That day also became the deadliest in the history of Everest, with 18 people losing their lives on the mountain.

The Last Great Mountain tells the story of the first ascent of Kangchenjunga the third highest but reputedly the hardest mountain in the world. It was an astonishing achievement for a British team led by Everest veteran Charles Evans. Drawing on interviews, diaries and unpublished accounts, Mick Conefrey begins his story in 1905 with the disastrous first attempt on the mountain by a team led by Aleister Crowley, explores the three dramatic German expeditions of the the late 1920s and brings it all to a climax 50 years later with the first ascent by Joe Brown and George Band.

Mountain Survival: When search-and-rescue park ranger Autumn Mercer and her K-9 partner, Sherlock, meet a stranger in the mountains whose brother is injured, they drop everything to help. But all they find where Derek Peterson last saw his sibling is a trail of blood—and men who want them dead. Search and Defend: Undercover to track the assassin who killed his partner, FBI special agent Alex Driscoll accidentally pulls his partner’s widow, Violet Sharp, and her search-and-rescue K-9, Teddy, into the case.

Until the accident, Melanie had only experienced passion with Sam. And then deep grief. But it's been over a year since his death and she's met a man who promises security and safety, just what she thinks she wants. Then, when her usually routine flight home over the Cascade Mountains becomes anything but, and she and Alex, her pilot, are thrown together in a fight for survival, Melanie is no longer sure what she wants. During cold nights in the mountains, she finds warmth and shelter in his arms. But how can Alex ever give her the security she craves outside of them? And there is man, a ...

#8 - SHADOW DWELLERS - ANOTHER GREAT BOOK FROM D. M. HAGGARD. IN MOUNTAIN MAN SERIES. Cody's journey to Texas is over and the trail beckons him on another dangerous and long journey to the Colorado Rockies. But every trek has its dangers and so does this one. From the West Texas deserts into the rugged foothills of the San Andres Mountains, Cody is plagued by wolf packs, roving Indian warriors and the hazards of Mother Nature. A dangerous river crossing nearly costs him his life as well as the lives of his faithful livestock. Two things keep him going - his love of the wilderness and a ...

#9 - THE HUNTED - ANOTHER EXCITING MOUNTAIN MAN STORY ABOUT CODY DAKOTA BY D. M. HAGGARD.Reunited in their quest to hunt giant elk in the wilds of Arizona, Cody and his oldest friend, Jeremiah "Liver Eatin'" Johnson, embark on a long trek to California. Each man has his own reasons for going. Jeremiah to seek a daughter he never knew. Cody to visit the winery he co-founded almost ten years ago with his lost love, Jamie Sutter, and to find out what's happened to the fortunes he left in a bank there. As always in the wilderness, dangers abound. Along with freezing mountain rains and killing ...

BUTCHER MOUNTAIN IS THE SIXTH BOOK IN THE WILDER HAWK MOUNTAIN MAN ADVENTURE SERIES FROM D. M. HAGGARDStill mourning the loss of his woman, Wilder leaves his tribal homeland bound for the northern Rockies he explored and came to love on his first mountain man journey. A chance encounter on the trail, rescuing a young cowboy from attempted robbery, entangles Wilder with the Triple Bar Ranch. The cowboy is the only son of the ranch’s hard-headed owner, Edmund Butcher, who’s currently contending with the Mormon settlers wanting his range land for farming and local Indian tribes who are ...

THE SIXTH BOOK “RAYADO” another TERRIFIC ADVENTURE of the MOUNTAIN MAN SERIES from D. M. HAGGARD, the internationally well-known Western Adventure author. This is the sixth and for now, the last book in the Buck Jackson series. After their sojourn in Texas, Buck Jackson, and his young pardnah, Brent Walker head back to Colorado. The journey has many twists and perils when horse thieves ambush them and Brent is injured by a bandit’s lucky shot. Cody’s past relationship with the Navajo people resurrects his spirit and the people adopt Buck as one of their own. But, there is one ...

#7 - GOING HOME! ANOTHER TERRIFIC CODY DAKOTA MOUNTAIN MAN BOOK BY D. M. HAGGARD! Burdened by the loss of the woman he loved, Cody departs California on a long journey back to Colorado. From the majestic Sierra Nevada Mountains, through the red rock deserts of Nevada and Utah he risks life and limb on this hazardous trip. His trek includes a variety of predator attacks, murderous desert heat, and dicey encounters with Native tribes. He and his livestock are moving targets for many. His eventual arrival at his cabin in the Rockies brings a relief to him as he continues his quest of hunting ...

#10 - PREDATOR AND PREY IS THE TENTH MOUNTAIN MAN STORY OF THE CODY DAKOTA SERIES BY D. M. HAGGARD. MORE TO COME. Cody returns to his new mountain home, a rundown miner's cabin in Grizzly Flats miles from Sacramento. Nested amid the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Grizzly Flats offers wilderness to roam and plenty of game to hunt, plus farms and small towns within a day's ride where Cody can buy or barter for supplies as needed. It's also not far from the J&C Winery run by Cody's partner Joseph Sutter. Joseph has a good head for business, but occasionally problems arise that require Cody's special...

Virgil is making his older siblings trek to a mountain lake on a trip unlike any they have taken before. They carry precious cargo: the ashes of their beloved mother, who asked that her remains be scattered at her favorite spot. But when a forest fire is sparked by a bolt of lightning at the exact moment when their van breaks down, the journey quickly turns to disaster. Virgil finds himself separated from his sister and alone in the wilderness. He isn’t sure he can make it, but with the memory of his mother and her lessons to guide him, he learns that survival starts with letting go.

When he discovers that he has terminal cancer, retired heart surgeon Ben Givens refuses to simply sit back and wait. Instead he takes his two beloved dogs and goes on a last hunt, determined to end his life on his own terms. But as the people he meets and the memories over which he lingers remind him of the mystery of life’s endurance, his trek into the American West becomes much more than a final journey.

Outdoor journalist James Edward Mills's book The Adventure Gap is a groundbreaking volume that is equal parts adventure story, history, and inspiration as it chronicles the first American all-Black summit attempt on Denali in 2013. Mills uses this momentous expedition as a jumping-off point to explore diversity in the outdoors, from Mathew Henson who stood at the North Pole in 1909 to contemporary adventurers such as polar explorer Barbara Hillary and rock climber Kai Lightner.

Cynthia feels the pressure, as every day reduces the time available to save a small sample of humanity. This time, Nibru will bring an Extinction Event, in less than five years. A breakthrough physics discovery offers a glimpse of an unknown world beyond a portal. She is directing a project that dwarfs the Manhattan Project, in scope and secrecy. The United States will attempt to launch, through an expanded portal, a group of its best and brightest young people into the unknown world. Will the clock reach midnight before Project Bolthole can be completed?

For 18 years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing's holy grail: to stand atop the world's 14 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to the Top is as much about the man who would become the first American to achieve that goal as it is about his stunning quest. As Viesturs recounts the stories of his most harrowing climbs, he reveals a man torn between the flat, safe world he and his loved ones share and the majestic and deadly places where only he can go.

In 1840 the demand for beaver was gone, leaving the mountain men searching for another way to survive.

Defiance led Lisa Thompson to the male-dominated world of mountain climbing. But after battling breast cancer, she needed to understand the motivations behind the risks she took while climbing. Finding Elevation is more than her climbing memoir. It is an examination of the human spirit and motivation.

The adventure continues when Abby and Derick begin their second semester at Cragbridge Hall, the most prestigious secondary school in the world. But when Grandpa Cragbridge admits them to the Council of Keys - a secret group of people who have keys to travel back in time - strange things begin to happen. One by one, members are found unconscious and unable to wake, their keys stolen. Now Abby and Derick must scramble to figure out who is behind the attacks before they become the next victims, which would give their enemy the power to change the past forever.

"This is the tale of Mark Horrell’s not-so-nearly ascent of Gasherbrum in Pakistan, of how one man’s boredom and frustration was conquered by a gutsy combination of exhaustion, cowardice, and sheer mountaineering incompetence. He made not one, not two, but three intrepid assaults, some of which got quite a distance beyond Base Camp, and overcame many perilous circumstances along the way. The mountaineer Joe Simpson famously crawled for three days with a broken leg, but did he ever have to read Angels and Demons by Dan Brown while waiting for a weather window?

The Seventh Taking is the chilling tale of a young man’s journey through harsh mountain country in his search for the girl he loves and the two friends who dare to brave the dangerous elements - both human and natural - to support a friend. When Joy Vincent disappears in the Blue Summit Mountains of Tennessee while vacationing with her family, park rangers begin an intensive search for the Louisiana high-school junior. Seven weeks later, the search is abandoned, and authorities conclude that Joy voluntarily ran away because of a fight with her father.