Falcon Highest And Hardest: A Mountain Climber’s Lifetime Odyssey To The Top Of The World Fiction. If youre only going to read one Everest book this decade, make it The Third Pole… a riveting adventure.OutsideShivering, exhausted, gasping for oxygen, beyond doubt . . .A hundred-year mystery lured veteran climber Mark Synnott into an unlikely expedition up Mount Everest during the spring 2019 season that came to be known as the Year Everest Broke. What he found was a gripping human story of impassioned characters from around the globe and a mountain that will consume your souland your lifeif you let it.The mystery? On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine set out to stand on the roof of the world, where no one had stood before. They were last seen eight hundred feet shy of Everests summit still going strong for the top. Could they have succeeded decades before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay? Irvine is believed to have carried a Kodak camera with him to record their attempt, but it, along with his body, had never been found. Did the frozen film in that camera have a photograph of Mallory and Irvine on the summit before they disappeared into the clouds, never to be seen again? Kodak says the film might still be viable. . . .Mark Synnott made his own ascent up the infamous North Face along with his friend Renan Ozturk, a filmmaker using drones higher than any had previously flown. Readers witness first-hand how Synnotts quest led him from oxygen-deprivation training to archives and museums in England, to Kathmandu, the Tibetan high plateau, and up the North Face into a massive storm. The infamous traffic jams of climbers at the very summit immediately resulted in tragic deaths. Sherpas revolted. Chinese officials turned on Synnotts team. An Indian woman miraculously crawled her way to frostbitten survival. Synnott himself went off the safety ropeone slip and no one would have been able to save himcommitted to solving the mystery.Eleven climbers died on Everest that season, all of them mesmerized by an irresistible magic. The Third Pole is a rapidly accelerating ride to the limitless joy and horror of human obsession.

Falcon Highest And Hardest: A Mountain Climber’s Lifetime Odyssey To The Top Of The World Fiction

Falcon Basic Rockhounding & Prospecting: A Beginner’s Guide Field Guides. Keep this tabbed booklet close at hand on your next rock-hunting adventure. Based on Dan and Bob Lynch’s best-selling field guides and featuring 60 of the most common rocks and minerals in the country, the booklet is organized by rocks/minerals and then by general appearance for quick and easy identification. Narrow your choices by appearance, and view just a few specimens at a time. The pocket-sized format is much easier to use than laminated foldouts, and the waterproof and tear-resistant pages help to make the book durable in the field.

Falcon Foraging Arizona: Finding, Identifying, And Preparing Edible Wild Foods In Arizona Field Guides. This user-friendly field guide to 600 wildflowers found in North America is organized by color and alphabetically to enable wildflower enthusiasts and nature lovers to identify and learn about the natural and cultural history of flowering plants. Color photographs accompanied by plant descriptions, range, flowering periods, and other natural history notes such as historical uses, etymology, pollinator associations will entice and educate readers from coast to coast.

Falcon Modern Rockhounding And Prospecting Handbook – 2nd Edition Field Guides. Basic Rockhounding and Prospecting is aimed at anyone who is interested in learning the basics of collecting rocks and minerals. Its the perfect companion title to the more advanced Modern Rockhounding and Prospecting Handbook. Readers will learn how to identify common rocks and minerals, and where to look for them. Using labs, procedures, pictorials, and discussions to help readers learn, this book will cover the basics of geology, describing the three main rock groups, with extensive pictures to show what to look for and how to figure out what is out there.

Falcon Insects Of North America Field Guides. 62 butterfly species, both common and exotic, found in the Southwest, including West Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Southern Utah and Nevada, and desert California

Falcon Starry Sky Adventures Utah: Hike, Paddle, And Explore Under Night Skies Field Guides. Detailed instructions on the use of night sky charts, perfect for the beginner. Includes 4 seasonal night sky charts (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter), showing all major constellations, asterisms, nebula, and other objects visible with the naked eye.