 | Rick Ridgeway - Sports & Recreation - 1999 - 304 pages
In September 1978, after 67 days on the mountain--nearly all of them above 18,000 feet--Ridgeway and three others stood atop K2, the first Americans ever to accomplish this ... | |
 | George B. Schaller - Nature - 2007 - 272 pages
Since the 1950s, eminent field biologist George Schaller has roamed through many lands observing wild animals and conducting landmark long-term studies that have deepened our ... | |
 | Mike Harding - Travel - 1990 - 241 pages
A British television performer recounts his journey through the Himalaya Mountains to Zanskar and Ladakh, India, and to Nepal, in search of evidence of environmental damage ... | |
 | Anuk K. Kapoor, Kapoor. A. K., Satwanti Kapoor - Nature - 1994 - 250 pages
The present volume emphasizes the importance of studying the structure and functioning of ecological systems and their mode of reaction on exposure to human intervention in the ... | |
 | Jeremy C. Schmidt - Travel - 1992 - 302 pages
Chronicles the journey of four experienced mountaineers as they circumnavigated the Himalayas, and describes the people encountered as well as the joys, hardships, and triumphs ... | |
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