Seven Steps from Snowdon to Everest: please give your feedback on my book cover

August 17, 2015 My books and writing everest, hill walking, seven steps from snowdon to everest, snowdon, travel writing

I’m reaching the final stages of my crusade to publish a book about my ten year journey to the summit of Everest, and am keen to have your feedback about two very different concepts we have in mind for the book cover.

Aconcagua and a first taste of expedition life: an extract from my book

May 13, 2015 My books and writing acclimatisation, aconcagua, alex roddie, andes, argentina, book extract, seven steps from snowdon to everest, seven summits, travel writing 5 Comments

It’s time to update you once more on current progress with the book I’m threatening to publish about my journey from simple hill walker to Everest summiteer. Here’s the latest, along with a teaser from the book to try and convince you to buy it.

Learning the alpine skills: another update about my book

February 18, 2015 My books and writing alex roddie, alpine mountaineering, alps, book extract, climbing skills, europe, everest, gran paradiso, mont blanc, seven steps from snowdon to everest, training, travel writing, trekking 6 Comments

It’s been a while since I updated you on where I am with the book I’ve been promising to write about my journey from simple hill walker to Everest summiteer, so here’s some more news along with a teaser from the book.

Climbing Kilimanjaro: a taster from my forthcoming book

September 17, 2014 My books and writing africa, book extract, everest, kilimanjaro, peak bagging, seven steps from snowdon to everest, tanzania, travel writing, trekking, volcanoes, wildlife 13 Comments

I promised to provide an update on where I’m at with the book I’ve been threatening to publish about my journey from lowly hill walker to Everest summiteer. Here it is, along with a short teaser from the book in the hope that you might be tempted to buy it when it comes out.

The Eighth Summit: the highest mountain in Central America

December 11, 2013 My books and writing central america, doug mantle, guatemala, peak bagging, seven summits, trekking, volcan tajumulco, volcanoes 1 Comment

I thought my ascent of the highest mountain in Central America, an extinct 4220m volcano in Guatemala called Volcán Tajumulco, was going to be little more than a tick in the box, but that was far from being the case. Its summit was a real surprise, with a view as fine as any mountain I’ve climbed.

Why most books about Everest are irrelevant (but not all of them)

November 28, 2012 My books and writing amazon, andy kirkpatrick, boardman tasker prize, everest, history of mountaineering, jon krakauer, kindle, mountain literature, mountaineering disasters, old post, smashwords, the chomolungma diaries, travel writing 7 Comments

If you type the word Everest into the books category on Amazon.com, here’s what you get: 4 teen novels about a group of backstabbing teenagers competing to become the youngest person to climb Everest 1 worst-case scenario teen adventure book

The Manaslu oxygen mystery

March 21, 2012 My books and writing 8000m peaks, bottled oxygen, chongba sherpa, climbing equipment, everest, himalayas, jerzy kukuczka, manaslu, mountaineering ethics, nepal, sherpas 2 Comments

When I set out from Camp 4 at 7460m on Manaslu, it was the first time that I’d climbed with bottled oxygen. My 700 metre climb from Camp 3 the previous day had been unremittingly steep and tiring, but I

The trials of keeping a travel diary

May 11, 2011 My books and writing 8000m peaks, camping, cho oyu, everest, himalayas, makalu, mountain photography, tibet, travel diaries, travel writing, trekking, youtube 2 Comments

Well, I returned from my last trip to the Himalayas in November, and I’ve just got round to getting my travel diary from my expedition to Cho Oyu online, six months later. Does anyone care? Half the team who might