Mountain Survival

In 1963, Jim Whittaker became the first American to summit Everest via the South Col route. Roughly two weeks after Whittaker's achievement, Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld, fellow American mountaineers on the same expedition, became the first climbers ever to summit the world's highest peak via the dangerous and forbidding West Ridge—a route on which only a handful of climbers have since succeeded.

This is my story of survival during and after Hurricane Helene in Burnsville, North Carolina. It was a time when there was no power, water, cell phones, or outside communication at all. We were trapped in a seven-mile radius. All the roads to leave were destroyed.

Deep within the mist-shrouded forests of the Great Smoky Mountains, wildlife researcher Caleb Foster vanishes after sending a frantic message: something big, bipedal, and terrifying is stalking him. A team of park rangers sets out to find him but quickly discovers disturbing signs—massive footprints, makeshift tree shelters, and ritualistically arranged animal carcasses. As they journey deeper into the mountains, they uncover an intelligent, and territorial race of creatures living in the shadows. Trapped between the mysterious forces of the wilderness and their own secrets, the rangers ...

A sapphic romance thriller unfolds against the backdrop of a remote, snowbound town during an unrelenting winter storm. Olivia Conners has just severed ties with Chief of Police Nick Whitmore, culminating in the retrieval of her last belongings from their mountain cabin. In the midst of her departure down a twisting, snow-covered road, an encroaching blizzard becomes a blinding whiteout. Her car crashes, colliding with Riley Bennett - the woman Olivia has secretly admired for so long. Stranded and left with no options, they take refuge in Olivia's cabin. As the storm rages outside, tensions...

Now with a new introduction by Robert Macfarlane and a new afterword by Jenny Odell, this masterpiece of nature writing by Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into “the high and holy places” of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world of spectacular cliffs, deep silences, and lakes so clear that they cannot be imagined. As she walks through clouds, endures blizzards, and watches the great spirals of eagles in flight, Shepherd comes to know something about the hidden life of this remarkable landscape—and also herself.

STONE COLD IS THE SEVENTH BOOK IN THE WILDER HAWK MOUNTAIN MAN ADVENTURE SERIES FROM D. M. HAGGARDWilder’s trek home from Montana to the southern Rockies is interrupted when Crow raiders attack three stranded wagons not far from his campsite. The pioneers are part of a wagon train, left behind when they stopped to nurse a sick family member. Wilder catches up to the major portion of the train in the hope of convincing its leader to wait for the stragglers to catch up. The callous and inexperienced wagon master abruptly quits, leaving the pioneers to their fate. Though he wants to return ...

THE FIFTH BOOK “ PASSAGES” another TERRIFIC ADVENTURE of the MOUNTAIN MAN SERIES from D. M. HAGGARD! On the trail home from selling furs, seeking shelter from a snowstorm, Buck unexpectedly rescues Brent Walker – the livery hand from Cañon City who helped him bury his beloved mule, Black Jack. Recently orphaned, sixteen-year-old Brent accepts Buck’s offer to take him in for the rest of the winter and teach him the ways of the mountain man, very similar to what Jeremiah Johnson had done to Buck. The two become fast friends, sharing hardships and joys, until a chance discovery ...

ATENCIÓN Lectores: Este libro ha sido reelaborado y publicado como un Libro NUEVO (CAÍDO) en una Serie NUEVA (Serie Redención). ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Todos tenemos dos vidas. La segunda vida de Jimmy-Mack comenzó en el momento en que se dio cuenta de que solo tenía una.En las desoladas montañas de Carolina del Norte, el nuevo amor de Mack por un indígena Cherokee expone un secreto tribal y un cementerio indígena que guarda un antiguo tesoro vikingo. El tesoro está encapsulado en un misterio sobrenatural tan ...

ATTENTION Readers: This book has been reworked and published as a NEW Book (FALLEN) in a NEW Series (Redemption Series). ____________________________________________________________________________________________ We all have two lives. Jimmy-Mack’s second began the moment he realized he only had one. In the remote mountains of North Carolina, Mack’s new found love for a Cherokee Native woman exposes a tribal secret and an Indian burial ground holding an ancient Viking treasure wrapped in a supernatural mystery so deep its unraveling rewrites the North American history books, toppling a...

In the thrilling sequel to the New York Times best-selling novel Minecraft: The Island, a stranded hero stumbles upon another castaway—and discovers that teamwork might just be the secret to survival.

Growing up in the Canadian Rockies, the mountains have always been home for Jenny Tough. Travelling the world, she's always discovered commonalities with mountains—and mountain people. Her major project is to run solo and unsupported across a mountain range on every continent where indigenous mountain people live isolated from the outside, urban world. Running solo and unsupported comes with obvious logistical as well as physical challenges, but running is also a common language.

Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family's food on just a quarter acre - and earn $10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary job would require.

An inheritance or a lottery and nothing more nor less would have every brought this city slicker couple to this Godforsaken place with mountains and snow as far as one could see. A no man's land with no Internet, no satellite, and no cell phone service. And, not to mention the move-in day in the dead of Winter! But, desperate times call for desperate measures. They embark upon a journey, that will forever change their lives!

#1 - THE FIRST IN THE CODY DAKOTA MOUNTAIN MAN SERIES TITLED A MOUNTAIN MAN ADVENTURE BY D. M. HAGGARD!This story is about the life and trials of mountain men who lived in the most hostile and difficult environments imaginable in Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. Their lives were focused on trapping, hunting, and fishing for survival as well as for profit. Anything that lived in the woods with them were either prey or predator. The latter animals often attacked them and tried to kill them. Most trapping was done during the fall and early spring when the furs were the healthiest and ...

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.

The mountain man loved the life and the rigors of the Rockies, facing the challenges that the high country and isolation threw at him, only to arrive home and find everything he had worked for had been taken by savages. With no law enforcement on the frontier to turn to for help, Tom sets out to save his family with one nagging question: Was he wrong to leave them unprotected while he eked out a living in the high peaks?

"BEASTS" IS THE FIFTH BOOK IN THE MOUNTAIN MAN ADVENTURE SERIES FROM D. M. HAGGARD The Jicarilla tribe have returned to their northern New Mexico homeland thanks to Wilder Hawk, but he believes a full Apache chief is better suited than he is to lead them. Devastated by the loss of their first child, Wilder and his wife, Olathe, embark on a wilderness journey in search of healing. Their trek through mountains, canyons, and deserts brings challenging encounters with beasts of all kinds – animal, human, and powerful forces of nature. Tragedy once again strikes Wilder and he struggles to find...

Met Driscoll meets with the aliens again. This time the Earth is in peril. He learns that the Moon is an artificial creation of an ancient evil race. ----------- Excerpts ----------- As Met returned, the outer gear or space suits melted away from the aliens like some magic trick. The creatures were surprisingly human-like in their appearance but with scaled light green skin. *** A slowly rotating 3D hologram of the Moon hung in the air in front of the nearest alien. "This Moon of yours exposed your history. It should have been obvious to us from the beginning. The Moon's mass is only 1.2 ...

FOURTH ADVENTURE IN THE 2nd EDITION OF CODY DAKOTA MOUNTAIN MAN SERIES BY D. M. HAGGARD! Cody returns to Colorado to find his cabin occupied by the Michaels family. Pioneers who moved into what they thought was an abandoned cabin. He doesn't have the heart to throw them out of his home, so he and David Michaels build a new cabin nearby for Cody to live in. Together, they face the hazards of life in the Rockies -- brutal winter storms, killing cold, marauding bears and the occasional outlaw. An assault by two rogue Ferguson brothers, leaves Cody with a small fortune in ill-gotten gains. ...

Jack Mallory is on a quest to learn more about the father he barely knew, Liam Mallory. Along with his Mohawk companion, Hosagowwa, he travels to the farthest reaches of the northern Rocky Mountains experiencing life with the many indigenous tribes. His tale is one of discovery and danger; wondrous beauty and extreme weather, love, and loss.