Adventure Bookshelf

“You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things – to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated.”
Sir Edmund Hillary
Mountaineering legend & humanitarian Edmund Hillary has passed on at the age of 88. Hillary, who alongside sherpa Tenzing Norgay, was first to climb Mount Everest, the world highest mountain [...]

“Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.”
-Eudora Welty
Narrative historian Fergus Fleming brings a collection of vignettes to the page with Off the Map: Tales of Endurance and Exploration.
Forty-five different narratives chronicle three separate eras -

The Age of Reconnaissance
The Age of Inquiry
The Age of Endeavor

Opening with Marco Polo in Mongolia in [...]

“..Then the whole fascinating vision vanished,
enveloped in cloud once more..”
Noel Odell
Geologist/Oxygen Officer
1924 Everest Expedition
“We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.” Is a quote attributed to George Mallory and a little less cliche than his enduring catch phrase - “Because it is there.” Whether he did ‘stomp to the top‘ [...]