Guides et listes tirés du catalogue Pick a Peak.
What a via ferrata is, which gear and grades matter, what really goes wrong — and 21 routes worth knowing, from the Dolomites to Hua Shan and Kinabalu.
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Sixteen mountains that get named again and again — and what they have in common, which turns out to be geology rather than taste.
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Eight mountains for seven places, because nobody agrees where Australia ends — and one of the seven is only Europe's highest if you draw the border through the Caucasus watershed.
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From Denali, which rises further from its own base than any mountain on land, to a 43-metre bluff in the Caymans.
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Aconcagua, the highest mountain outside Asia, and thirteen others — including the point on Earth's surface furthest from its centre.
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Glaciated peaks in New Zealand, jungle ridges nobody has walked, and four countries whose high point is under ten metres.
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From Elbrus at 5,642 m to a Dutch hill you can cycle over — fifty-odd summits, and what it takes to stand on each.
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Fourteen of the world's eight-thousanders and a Maldivian sandbank five metres above the sea — the roof of every country in Asia.
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From Kilimanjaro's dying glaciers to a nineteen-metre hill in the Gambia — the roof of every country in Africa.
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Fifty-one summits, from a 6,190 m Alaskan giant to a rise in a Delaware front yard — with what it takes to stand on each one.
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