Aat Vervoorn "Mountain Solitudes" ISBN 0-908802-64-1 Craig Potton Publishing

The brilliant follow-up to A V's acclaimed first book "Beyond the Snowline". It draws on 15 years of solo mountaineering and tramping in the rugged south westland section of NZ's southern alps - a country that includes the high peaks of aoraki/mt cook and mt tasman, the distant mt hooker, and such wild and remote valley systems as the Landsborough, the Paringa and the Copeland. In a reflective and oroginal style, Vervoorn explores a number of central themses, particularly that of gaining matery in, rather than over, the mountain environment, and a rejection of the notion that a good mountaineering trip has to have close shaves and suffering to be successful. Both intelligent and humorous, this is not only book about adventure, but an insightful look at the experience of mountain travel and life in the wilderness, and why it profoundly affects so many people.

Paul Hersey "Where the Mountains throw their dice" ISBN 10: ISBN - 13: 978-1-86966-191-5 New Holland Publishers
There are regular reports in the media of mountaineering fatalities and costly rescues, and to some of us climbing may seem a selfish and crazy game in which victims have only themselves to blame. But to Dunedin climber Paul Hersey climbing is nothing less than a reason for living; even if, or perhaps even because, at the most life-affirming moments he may be just one step from a tumble into the abyss. In this fascinating book, which includes white-knuckle accounts of his own climbs in the South Island and the Italian Alps, Paul chats with some of New Zealand's most experienced climbers, such as Bill McLeod, Lydia Bradey and Erik Monasterio, to find out why they are drawn to the mountains, and why, even after losing close friends, they keep returning to this place of other-worldly limbo. Accompanying the text are Paul's spectacular photographs from his own climbs.

"Aspiring" By Kieran Kelly. Featuring the late Anton Wopereis.

"Aspiring" is a step by step account of climbing Mt. Aspiring from the perspective of a novice and examines the way we overcome our inner demons, as well as our outer fears. We knew Anton quite well, and was surprised by Kelly's take on Anton's personality. We were impressed that Kelly admits later in his book that indeed it was HIS OWN temperament that Wopereis mirrored.