Mountains

by Valeria Manferto de Fabianis (Editor)

Since the late nineteenth century, mountaineering has fed our desire for conquest, challenge, and knowledge, attracting us to the highest peaks. Packed with hundreds of glorious photographs by the world’s foremost nature photographers, Mountains SuperCube invites us into a world of intense beauty and timelessness. Taken from a variety of innovative angles, these images present the most scenic and most compelling aspects of such legendary peaks as Mt. Everest, the Matterhorn, K2, Mont Blanc, Cerro Torre, and Mount McKinley. Accompanied by vivid accounts of daring mountaineers and affectionate anecdotes from people who live near the mountains, these photographs evoke the breathtaking beauty of the world’s most majestic mountains and convey their constant allure. The substantial SuperCube format provides an appropriately grand vehicle in which to pay tribute to these natural wonders.

Genres: Photography

736 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Joselito Honestly and Brilliantly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thick, with glossy, colourful pages of excellent photography. This is not only about mountains. It also has photos in chapters (presented with brief introductions) about icy rivers in high-altitude mountains, mountain/rock climbing as a high-altitude sports, people who live in mountains, forests, bases in the mountains and bodies of water therein.

It doesn’t have anything on the Philippines, however. Not even the majestic Mayon (the volcano with a PERFECT cone). A pity.

[Sportyrod · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice, easy pictorial book. Beautiful pictures. The book covers all types of mountain aspects such as peaks, valleys, glaciers, reflections, villages, climbers, skiiers, animals.

[Oliwkaka85 · Rating 5 out of 5]

my airbnb in Italy had it, I want it on my bookshelf forever

[FJose · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good book for a photographic reference of many mountains across the world. But I couldn't find any reference to many of the famous/known (example: Kanjanjunga - third highest mountain on Earth )mountains in this book.

[Thyseldown]

Beautiful photographs. If you love the mountains you will love this book.

[Jim πgr · Rating 4 out of 5]

736 σελίδες γεμάτες φωτογραφίες από τα υψηλότερα σημεία της γης. Οροσειρές, πρόποδες, βουνοπλαγιές, παγετώνες, άγρια ζώα και φυσική ομορφιά σε αυτό το βιβλίο. Σε ευχαριστώ για το δώρο.