Títulos en Aire libre y naturaleza

¿Qué es el calentamiento global? ¿En qué consiste la crisis climática? ¿Cuándo inició? ¿Hay vuelta atrás? ¿Viviremos en el mundo de Wall-E? Estas son algunas de las preguntas que adolescentes y jóvenes se han hecho en el último tiempo a raíz de los problemas medioambientales que afectan a nuestro planeta.

Year after year, climbers return to the world's most difficult mountains. At these places, even the most cautious climber is vulnerable to mistakes, bad weather, and bad luck, which often leads to death. This collection offers harrowing accounts of extreme mountaineering and its potentially fatal consequences.

The Complete Angler has been in print for over 350 years. Just a how-to book on fishing would not have created such a popular work. Walton's comments on how to catch and prepare numerous varieties of fish create a pleasant leisure read for any fisherman. His anecdotes are as fresh and contemporary today as they were in his century.

Only a few years ago, Alex Honnold was little known beyond a small circle of hardcore climbers. Today, at the age of 30, he is probably the most famous adventure athlete in the world. In that short time, he has proven his expertise in many styles of climbing and has shattered speed records, pioneered routes, and won awards within each discipline. More spectacularly still, he has pushed the most extreme and dangerous form of climbing far beyond the limits of what anyone thought was possible.

In 2014, Mount Everest was closed to all climbers after a devastating avalanche claimed the lives of 16 Nepali mountain workers ferrying loads up through the Khumbu Icefall on the mountain's southern approach through Nepal. Almost a year to the day later, in late April 2015, the mountain was once more rocked to its core after a large earthquake struck Nepal, sending shock waves rippling across the Himalayas.

Albert Bosch es un aventurero vital que no se conforma con soñar proyectos, sino que intenta siempre llevarlos a la práctica, para vivir así una vida intensa e interesante. Después de una larga trayectoria de aventuras, el 4 de enero de 2012 culminó la travesía integral de la Antártida, desde el mar hasta el Polo Sur geográfico.

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In May of 1963, Seattle mountaineer Jim Whittaker stepped into world history by becoming the first American to summit Mount Everest. More than 50 years later, he is still regarded as a seminal figure in North American mountaineering, as well as an astute businessman who helped create the outdoor recreation industry. A Life on the Edge: Memoirs of Everest and Beyond is Jim's courageous, no-punches-pulled autobiography and a look at a peripatetic, sometimes difficult life.

Rosemary and Peter Grant and those assisting them have spend 20 years on Daphne Major, an island in the Galapagos, studying natural selection. They recognize each individual bird on the island, when there are 400 at the time of the author's visit or when there are over a thousand. They have observed about 20 generations of finches - continuously.Jonathan Weiner follows these scientists as they watch Darwin's finches and come up with a new understanding of life itself.

Hemos leído sobre la importancia del agua y del oxígeno para nuestra vida, pero ¿qué sucede con la luz? En particular la iluminación artificial. También hemos leído sobre los cambios sociológicos que implicó dominar la oscuridad de la noche, pero ¿qué sucede con la forma en que iluminamos los espacios que habitamos? ¿Qué efectos tienen en nosotros los distintos tipo de iluminación artificial? Con un tono personal y fuertemente documentado, Anna Levin nos invita a conocer cómo nos afectan los distintos tipos de iluminación.

O clássico de Henry David Thoreau, publicado em 1854: um manifesto a favor da natureza e da liberdade. Edição especial, com ilustrações de Deco Farkas, prefácio de Joyce Carol Oates e nota biográfica escrita por Virginia Woolf. Inclui o ensaio "Sobre o dever da desobediência civil". Em conflito com as mudanças trazidas pela Revolução Industrial – na sociedade, na cultura e na relação do homem com o trabalho e a natureza – e inspirado pela filosofia oriental do confucionismo, Thoreau abandona a cidade e retira-se para a floresta.

北アルプスの最奥部・黒部原流域のフロンティアとして、長く山小屋(三俣山荘、雲ノ平山荘、水晶小屋、湯俣山荘)の経営に携わってきた伊藤正一と、遠山富士弥、遠山林平、鬼窪善一郎、倉繁勝太郎ら…

ころんで死ぬ、ダニに噛まれて死ぬ、助けようとして死ぬ、キャンプの炊事中に死ぬ、風に飛ばされて死ぬ——など、アウトドアには「まさか、こんなことで……」と思うような、死の危険がたくさんあります。

多様性・意志・感情・寿命・時間… 「生命の原則」を知れば、人生はもっと自由になるーー。生命科学研究者であり、起業家でもある著者がたどりついた、一度きりの人生を迷いなく生きるための思考法! ◎コンテンツ例 ・多様性の本質は「同質性」にある ・「仕事ができない人」は、視野の共有で解決できる ・なぜ、人類は非効率に見える感情を抱えて生きるのか ・利己と利他は対立しない ・生命は「失敗許容主義」を貫いている ◎こんな人にオススメ ・怒りや悲しみなどネガティブな感情に流されたくない ・意志を強く持ち続けたい ・組織作りやビジネスに生命科学の知見を応用したい ・チームや人間関係のことで悩んでいる ・何かに打ち込むための情熱がほしい 私が本書を通じて伝えたいのは、「生命には原理や原則があることを客観的に理解した上で、それに抗うために主観的な意志を活かして行動できる」ということです。生命原則を客観的に理解し、視野を自在に切り替えて思考することで主観を見出し行動に移せば、自然の理に立脚しながらも希望に満ちた自由な生き方が可能となります(はじめにより)。 ◎目次 第1章 生命に共通する原則とは何か ー客観的に捉えるー 第2章 生命原則に抗い、自由に生きる ー主観を活かすー 第3章 一度きりの人生をどう生きるか ー個人への応用ー 第4章 予測不能な未来へ向け組織を存続させるには ー経営・ビジネスへの応用ー 第5章 生命としての人類はどう未来を生きるのか

When Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. Indeed, for as long as Westerners have been climbing the Himalaya, Sherpas have been the unsung heroes in the background. In August 2008, when eleven climbers lost their lives on K2, the world’s most dangerous peak, two Sherpas survived. They had emerged from poverty and political turmoil to become two of the most skillful mountaineers on earth. Based on unprecedented access and interviews, Buried in the Sky reveals their astonishing story for the first time.

On the afternoon of July 13, 1977, having become the first climbers to reach the summit of the Ogre, Doug Scott and Chris Bonington began their long descent. In the minutes that followed, any feeling of success from their achievement would be overwhelmed by the start of a desperate fight for survival. And things would only get worse.

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すべてのオナラをしたことのある人へ送る、80種の生き物のオナラについて科学的に考察した、ユーモアあふれる究極の生き物事典

天才はどうやって弱点を才能で補ってきたか。

天才とは、いったい何なのだろう。アインシュタインなどの非凡な才能の持ち主は、私たちが精神的な欠陥とみなす「脳の特異性」を持っていた。

Echoes of the Hunt, written by Stan Corvin, Jr., is the true story of a deer hunt he was on a few years ago in West Texas. Arriving at the ranch, he learned the owner who invited him had the flu and was not going to participate in the hunting of a massive atypical mule deer named El Viejo. For the next 10 days, Stan hunted alone for the trophy buck. Interwoven with this adventure, he tells of hunting experiences as a young boy, then later as a teenager with his father, grandfather, and uncle.

Polly Letofsky left her Colorado home and headed west across four continents and over 14,000 miles - by foot - to become the first woman to walk around the world. In a spirit of adventure, along with the goal of raising global awareness for breast cancer, strangers welcomed her into their homes. The world had embraced her. But in the middle of Polly's journey, 9/11 flung us all into a crossroads in world history, and she found herself navigating a vastly changing world.