Rock Climbing: The Official AMGA Single Pitch Manual serves as the core textbook for the American Mountain Guides Association’s Single Pitch Instructor Program. It presents the internationally recognized AMGA curriculum for technical climbing systems used in single pitch terrain.Inside, readers will find chapters on the role of the climbing instructor, professionalism, programming, teaching methodologies, equipment use, knots and hitches, protection and anchoring, advanced...

Kefi and Rosie were real animals who shared a life in the Welsh hills – and their spirit lives on in this story. In Book 2 of the Valley of Voices, they explore the mountains, meet old friends, uncover the quiet magic woven through the valley's past, and meet the Keeper for the first time.A warm, atmospheric tale of companionship and the echoes we leave behind.

High on the Whispering Mountain, the world is quiet enough to hear the old stories breathe.When Kefi, the enthusiastic black cockerpoo, and Rosie, the sarcastic one‑eyed cat, and their motley circle of creature‑friends follow a strange call into the hills, they find themselves drawn into a landscape where myth and everyday life sit side by side. The mountain holds its own memories — of dragons, old guardians, and the soft magic that still stirs beneath the...

High on the Welsh hills, where the old mines breathe stories and the wind carries secrets, Kefi the cockerpoo and Rosie the one‑eyed cat wander the Whispering Mountain with their unlikely Motley Crew of friends. From grumpy badgers to nervous squirrels, sly foxes to bossy hens, every creature has a tale — and the mountain listens to them all.When a strange stillness settles over the valley, the animals must follow the old paths, trust each other, and discover what the mountain has ...

Kefi's Mountain Adventures: Origin Story is a quiet, heartfelt glimpse into the early days of a small black dog who became the soul of a Welsh mountain.Told with warmth and gentle honesty, this short origin story follows Kefi from her beginnings in 2003‑ish to the summer of 2016, capturing the companionship, mischief, and quiet magic that shaped the Keeper of the Mountain's world.Set against the rugged hills and silver‑veined paths of rural Wales, this is a soft, reflective t...

The demons in Jerry Healy's mind have always been there. His twin brother Chris knew it. His peers knew it. Even his oblivious parents have begun to realize it. No one expected the fury that resulted when the demons consumed him, but there was one person with the ability to stop it. Now Chris Healy has no choice but to go after Jerry, risking everything and everyone he knows to stop the horrors being perpetrated by his brother…

In this poetic, poignant memoir, Dene artist and social activist Antoine Mountain paints an unforgettable picture of his journey from residential school to art school—and his path to healing.In 1949, Antoine Mountain was born on the land near Radelie Koe, Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories. At the tender age of seven, he was stolen away from his home and sent to a residential school—run by the Roman Catholic Church in collusion with the Government of Ca...

It has been twenty years since the end of the Bolantine war and an uneasy peace has beenholding between the Mullinix-Sotanberg allianceand the Bolantine Empire. Copeland Irons, son of the current Mullinix and Apprentice is in serviceschool along with his friends as a new change comes along the horizon. Along with hi cousin Kyrie he is brought into the family business as he deals with the life of being the son of the Mullinix.The Bolantines have not been quiet d...

It is supposed to be an easy job, one that he had been doing in one form or another for his entire adult life. Anti-terrorism expert A.J. Durell is no lightweight in the ways of self-defense, but he never expected that the Finnish job could go so bad on him. An unexpected revolution, an old enemy and an old love have all come together to put A.J. Durell into a fight for his life. Will he make it or will he fall in the frozen Scandinavian lands?

A compilation of thirteen short stories, featuring favorites like Mason Stone and the dynamic duo of Nick Jones and Corrie Albiston as well as one off shorts that date back to the earliest reaches of his writing. Now expanded with full notes and a proper table of contents.

Born into a world seething with treachery and suspicion, Eleanor Goodricke grows up on the Somerset Levels just after the English Civil Wars, heiress to her late mother's estates and daughter of a Puritan soldier who fears for his brilliant daughter with her dangerous passion for natural history - and for butterflies in particular.Her reckless courage will take her to places where no woman of her day ever dared to go. Her fearless ambition will give her a place in history for all t...

In her previous books, Oriah Mountain Dreamer has challenged readers to live with passion and honesty, to embrace the true, fallible, human self. What We Ache For is a moving and eloquent call to delve deeply into our creative selves, to do our creative work, and offer it to the world.The creative process is essential to human nature. It is as essential as spirituality and sexuality, and in fact all three are deeply intertwined. What We Ache For is a prac...