Vertebrate Publishing

Call-out is the definitive collection of tales about early mountain rescue in the Highlands of Scotland from Hamish MacInnes – Everest pioneer and arguably the most famous Scottish mountaineer o...

No Place to Fall is Victor Saunders follow up to his Boardman Tasker Prize winning debut book Elusive Summits. Covering three expeditions in Nepal, the Karakoram and the Kumaon, each shares the...

At a time when the greatest mountains in the greatest ranges had been climbed by numerous routes, collected like stamps and written about extensively, Victor Saunders and his friends relished the expl...

In 1982, following the relaxation of access restrictions to Tibet, six climbers set off for the Himalaya to explore the little-known Shishapangma massif in Tibet. Dealing with a chaotic build-up and b...

The Next Horizon, the second volume in Chris Boningtons autobiography after I Chose to Climb , picks up his story from 1962 and relates his subsequent adventures as a mountaineer, photographer, j...

Divine beauty all. Here I could stay tethered forever with just bread and water, nor would I be lonely. In the summer of 1869, John Muir joined a group of shepherds in the foothills ...

It is often from our setbacks, even our weaknesses, that we derive some of our greatest blessings. That Untravelled World is the autobiography of one of the greatest adventurers of the t...

Quest for Adventure is a collection of stories written by Sir Chris Bonington looking at the adventurous impulse which has driven men and women to achieve the impossible in the face of Earths e...