Mountain Survival

Climbing Denali alone—just you, the mountain, and the thin line between success and failure. Denali—North America’s highest peak—demands everything from those who dare to climb it solo. With deadly crevasses, brutal storms, and unforgiving terrain, every decision carries weight. Why risk it alone? What drives someone to face the mountain without a team? In this gripping firsthand account, the author battles brutal cold, exhaustion, and isolation on his solo ascent. Along the way, Denali offers hard-won lessons—not just for climbing, but for life itself—on managing risk, pushing ...

As a teenager, in a fit of rage toward her father, Jan pits herself against a steep rock face near their cottage. At the top, fired up by the victory, she sets her sights on the improbable dream of climbing mountains. By age 20, she's a nomadic climber with a magnetic attraction to misadventures and the wrong men. Jan finally finds the love of her life, an affable Banff climber. When he is killed in an avalanche in Alaska, a grieving Jan finds comfort in the arms of another extreme alpinist. Before long they are married, with a baby on the way.

#5 - SURVIVAL is the fifth book in the exciting Mountain Man series from D. M. Haggard. Fresh off a trek to Utah, Cody decides it's high time he traveled up north. He's spent time in Montana and Wyoming, but never ventured into Canada or experienced the Canadian Rockies where glaciers carved vast lakes with water so blue they'd hurt your eyes. His route from Colorado takes him through Wyoming, including the yellow stone region with its hot springs and other natural wonders. He's been there once before, and always promised himself he'd come back someday. He hadn't planned on company on this ...

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 ...

Noren knows that his world is not as it should be--it is wrong that only the Scholars and their representatives the Technicians, can use metal tools and Machines. It is wrong that only they have access to the mysterious City, which even in boyhood he longed to enter. Above all, it is wrong for the Scholars to have sole power over the distribution of knowledge. The High Law imposes these restrictions and many others, though the Prophecy declares that someday knowledge and Machines will be available. No longer the heretic he once was, Noren has come to believe in the Prophecy's intended ...

BLOOD TRAIL IS THE FOURTH BOOK IN THE MOUNTAIN MAN ADVENTURE SERIES FROM D. M. HAGGARDAgainst all odds, half-Indian mountain man Wilder Hawk has rescued most of his fellow Jicarilla Apaches from a forced march by the U.S. Cavalry to the hellish "reservation" known as Bosque Redondo in southeast New Mexico. Freeing them meant slaughtering the bluecoat soldiers who held them prisoner, an action that makes Wilder a wanted man. Advised by the great warrior Geronimo, he and the Jicarillas seek a haven in northern Mexico, only to find their presence there as precarious as ever. Hard pressed ...

#3 - COLORADO ROCKIES THE THIRD BOOK IN THE CODY DAKOTA MOUNTAIN MAN SERIES BY D. M. HAGGARD!After completing his dangerous expedition guiding famed explorer John C. Frémont to California, Cody trekked north to Lake Tahoe and lived with the Washoe people. Soon his wanderer's heart called him home again to his beloved Colorado Rockies. His lengthy roundtrip journey takes him through the majestic redwood forests and rough mining towns, home to animal and human predators alike. After an encounter with two bushwhackers, Cody acquires the deed to a gold claim half-owned by James W. Marshall ...

Book #2 – UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTER - THE SECOND ADVENTURE IN THE CODY DAKOTA MOUNTAIN MAN SERIES FROM D. M. HAGGARD Cody Dakota is heading home to the Colorado Rockies when an unexpected encounter sets him on a different path. Jim Bridger, famed mountain man and a legend of the old West – turns up alone at Cody’s campfire with a sad story to tell. Burned out of his trading post in southwestern Wyoming, Bridger is seeking fresh pastures and possibly a new partner to help him rebuild. Cody is interested, an a partnership is born. Another chance meeting in Moab, Utah brings another ...

#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 ...

"SAVAGES" THE THIRD BOOK IN A NEW BRAND OF MOUNTAIN MAN ADVENTURES. ONE OF THE FAVORITE BOOKS FROM D. M. HAGGARD IN THIS SERIES. Haggard asks a critical question in this books about the characters and us as a society. "Who are savages?" Read this book and see what you think about this critical question. He is forced to defend himself from an Indian-hating storekeeper who tries to back shoot him. Wilder becomes a fugitive on his trek to the Pacific Ocean. He must defend himself against bounty hunters who are only after his scalp and other tribes all of whom have lessons for half-breeds like ...

The most accomplished mountain runner of all time contemplates his record-breaking climb of Mount Everest in this profound and free-flowing memoir - an intellectual and spiritual journey that moves from the earth’s highest peak to the soul’s deepest reaches. What drives a person to the edge of one of the most difficult and revered mountains in the world? How much is one willing to sacrifice and suffer to pursue an authentic and bold life?

Kidnapped separately, terrified and alone, Deputy Sheriff Sharon Toro and her husband, Floyd Marshall, are each forced to make brutally hard life and death decisions to protect innocent life and for their own survival. They only have their faith and wits to guide them. Justice on the Mountain is a book about faith, love, and determination. It will touch your spirit, your heart and your mind as you live in the fast paced thriller in the rugged Colorado Rockies. What others are saying: “Great story, great characters, and moral dilemmas right out of today’s news.” “A thriller, mystery,...

Ben and Helen Harrison set aside their comfortable life in San Francisco and headed to Costa Rica to build a 38-foot sailboat. They had never built a boat before...Then they had to get it down a mountainside to the water, and from there sail to Key West, where they now live. It was a dauntless task and a challenge that put their marriage, their sanity, and their very lives on the line. A real-life adventure that will make you feel like you’ve got a berth on La Dulce Mujer Pintada, the Sweet Painted Lady.

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.

#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 ...

#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...

Fanny Bullock Workman was a complicated and restless woman who defied the rigid Victorian morals she found as restrictive as a corset. With her frizzy, brown hair tucked under a topee, Workman was a force on the mountain and off. Instrumental in breaking the British stranglehold on Himalayan mountain climbing, this American woman climbed more peaks than any of her peers, became the first woman to map the far reaches of the Himalayas, the first woman to lecture at the Sorbonne, and the second to address the Royal Geographic Society of London.

Encounters in Avalanche Country tells the story of mountain communities' responses to disaster over a century of social change and rapid industrialization. As mining and railway companies triggered new kinds of disasters, ideas about environmental risk and responsibility were increasingly negotiated by mountain laborers, at the elite levels among corporations, and in socially charged civil suits.