Books and snow, more please.
As we announced, let's make it easy for you: we talked to a great mountain, travel and adventure bookstore and with a snow expert journalist for them to give us **hints on which title to give (which one please?) ** to a snowlover. The bookstore is the one from Madrid ** Desnivel ** (Plaza Matute 6, Madrid. Tel. 91 369 42 90) and the expert, our colleague Alfonso Ojea. Here are your recommendations, varied, that mix guides and mountain literature . Now all you have to do is look for them and read! (oh, no, they were a gift, but you still get hooked...) .
GUIDES
Aragonese Pyrenees ski routes (Volume II).
80 routes from Sallent to Ordesa
by Jorge Garcia-Dihinx
This second volume of a collection that should be watched runs through the central Aragonese Pyrenees on skis: there are 80 routes from Sallent to Ordesa where the stars are Crossings and the High Routes several days between Respomuso, Bachimala and the Ara-Vignemale area , as well as the magic triangle that forms between Bujaruelo, Gavarnie and Ordesa . sorry vertigo and desire just to think about it. its more than 500 photos with the routes drawn and 20 1:25,000 maps with all the itineraries also make it a very useful copy. €27 in Desnivel bookstore.
Ordesa and Monte Perdido with some snow. Desire!
_- The winter crossing of the Pyrenees
From Cape Higuer to Cape Creus
by Tomas Rodriguez Lopez
During 41 days, a team of High Mountain Military Group toured the Pyrenees in its entirety: walking, on mountain skis, on the Spanish side of the border, on French terrain, on gentle slopes or up steep slopes, climbing mountains, through forests and frozen lakes, in good and bad weather... Nine years have passed since that journey and one of its protagonists, Tomás Rodríguez, tells it illustrating in all aspects (preparation, organization and development) what was a extraordinary experience . The winter ski crossing of the Pyrenees took place from Cabo de Higuer in Hondarribia to Cabo de Creus in Girona , in 2005. Fascinating it is little to say. €19 at Desnivel Bookstore.
- The Cantabrian Mountains with skis and snowshoes (Vol. II)
Ascents, crossings and descents of difficulty
by Miguel Angel Adrados
A series of crossings, circuits and ascents through the western half of the Cantabrian Mountains. we climb on skis and snowshoes to go from Puerto de Pajares to Sierra de los Ancares. €32 at the Desnivel Bookstore
The winter crossing of the Pyrenees.
_- Freeriding Madrid
Descents in Guadarrama
by Enrique Ribas and Luis Pantoja
Forty-one descents through the Madrid Sierra , most of them difficult and even extreme, with approach sketches, action photos, pictures with descent line plots, description, observations and technical sheet. A very complete manual for a favorite saw as a place of learning and practice of the alpine and cross-country skiing , which also includes the history of skiing in Guadarrama, from its origins a whopping more than a century ago. €16 at the Desnivel Bookstore.
MANUALS
- Skiing, performance and emotion by Carlos Guerrero Castillo
"That performance and emotion, pleasure and performance level go together is not casual, but something arranged by our own physiology to encourage us to explore our chances in the environment in which we live”, is exposed in this essential manual. The third part of a trilogy, which includes a detailed description of the modern technique on the track, bumps, jumps and off-piste, with a method to improve performance , focusing on what we feel when skiing , teaching us to recognize the stimuli we perceive and showing how to train our sensory apparatus as we progress physically and technically. Very interesting. €15 at the Desnivel Bookstore.
Are you going to hit the rackets?
- _ Snow rackets
practical manual
by Luisa Capilla and Xavi Gros
A practical manual, clear, simple, addressed to those who think start in the practice of rackets , and also to those who wish to know something more than what is probably the oldest method of progression through snow. It includes the history, the different types, the progression techniques, the necessary equipment, basic tips... A basic, wow. €13 at the Desnivel Bookstore.
- Theory and practice of ski mountaineering
Mastery of all snows and slopes
by Manuel Lopez Sarrion
A manual edited by the Desnivel Bookstore itself, obligatory reference among mountain skiers. Respecting a certain balance between the theoretical and the practical, its author has focused especially on the latter. Meteorology, avalanches, alpine technique, orienteering... they are treated in a functional way; instead, the techniques of descent and progression (the hard core of the book) are even reinforced in this revised version. A must. €18 at the Desnivel Bookstore.
Mountain skiing, what a joy!
MOUNTAIN LITERATURE
- Jon Krakauer's Altitude Sickness
A must read for mountain lovers , adventure or travel, this best seller tells the story of a tragedy that shocked the mountain world (and it reads like a good novel, but it's not fiction). Jon Krakauer he left for the Himalayas in 1996 to write a report on the growing commercial exploitation of Everest , with the idea of analyzing the reasons why so many people assume risks previously reserved for professional climbers . After reaching the highest peak on Earth, Krakauer began the dangerous descent, but not all members of the expedition made it... The work aroused so much controversy that Krakauer was forced to write a post scriptum replica, included in this edition. Y 2015, by the way, is going to be the first year that no one has climbed Everest in four decades. The highest summit in the world has become such a lucrative business for travel agencies and the Nepalese government that it has spiraled out of control and must be stopped to reorganize it. €22 at the Desnivel Bookstore.
The Conquerors of the Useless From the Alps to Annapurna
by Lionel Terray
A mountain literature classic , one of the books best-selling and most read of all time (in fact, it is usually called only Pathfinders) ; “essential for those who, in addition to climbing mountains, like to dream about them”. Lionel Terray, "one of the most outstanding figures in the history of mountaineering", opening of first absolute to the Fitz Roy, Chacraraju, Jannu, Makalu or Mont Huntington ; in the repetitions of him in the Alps; in his participation in the French expedition to the annapurna... count your ascents , and is also portrayed with a top writer. We warn you: they make you want to grab the backpack right now. €20 at the Desnivel Bookstore.
They will make you want to pick up the backpack.
** The Naked Mountain by Reinhold Messner**
A brave, painful and personal story on death and survival , written by one of the most innovative climbers of all times. Reinhold Messiner revive your ascent of Nanga Parbat in 1970 , which marked the beginning of his Himalayan career, and which in turn ended in tragedy, surrounded by mystery: his younger brother, Günther, died on the German Mountain of Destiny . Reinhold survived, albeit with serious freezes and with reproaches about his performance. Years later, Messner relives those days that turned his life upside down. €19.50 at the Desnivel Bookstore.
Iñaki's fourteen
Chronicle of the extraordinary rescue attempt of the himalayist Ochoa de Olza in the Annapurna
by Jorge Nagoré
In May 2008, we witnessed through the television news the rescue attempt by a Spanish mountaineer, Iñaki Ochoa de Olza. The Navarrese it had vanished at 7,400 meters, on the East Annapurna Ridge. After his call for help, fourteen climbers from around the world fought against the clock to rescue him in one of the most beautiful and inaccessible mountains on the planet, taking risks and paying for the operation out of your own pocket . This book reminds those five days in which he fought against logic and common sense , but they revealed the spirit of fellowship in the mountains and the value of Iñaki. exciting to tears , part of the profits obtained from its sale will go to the ** Iñaki Ochoa de Olza SOS Himalaya Foundation . €23 at the Desnivel Bookstore.**
The beloved mountaineer Iñaki Ochoa de Olza.
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