Books published by Crescent House

For Edward Buckingham, a humble Cornish postman, the draw of Kilimanjaro and the high mountains of the world would change his life forever. It would also very nearly end his life during a fall from high on Cho Oyu, the world's sixth highest mountain. 7 Summits tells the story of Ed's journey to climb the highest mountain on every continent.

The climbing areas around Glossop and the north-west Peak District have been written about in many guidebooks. Moorland Grit by Paul Durkin features those lost and hidden crags often overlooked by previous explorers and scribes. Featuring 340 routes from Mod to E3 and 425 boulder problems with full colour action photography.

Cape to Cape is the inspiring story of John Sutcliffe's backpacking trek from Cape Cornwall in South West England to Cape Wrath on the north-westerly tip of Scotland: a breathtaking 1,250-mile-long walk.

The scope of H.W. 'Bill' Tilman's When Men & Mountains Meet is broad, covering his disastrous expedition to the Assam Himalaya, a small exploratory trip into Sikkim, and his wartime heroics.

In 2014, Peter Hill, a self-proclaimed 'relatively normal 50-year-old, overweight desk-jockey', took on the task of attempting a 5,000-mile walk around the coast of Britain in aid of two charities. Adapted from his award-winning blog, I May Be Gone For Some Time documents the highs and lows of his 42-week hike. Illustrated with colour photography.

Mostly Mischief's ordinary title belies extraordinary voyages made by H.W. Tilman in both Arctic and Antarctic waters, including the first ascent of a mountain to start below sea level.

It's 1938, the British have thrown everything they've got at Everest but they've still not reached the summit. War in Europe seems inevitable; the Empire is shrinking. Still reeling from failure in 1936, the British are granted one more permit by the Tibetans. Mount Everest 1938 by H.W. Tilman is the account of this pioneering expedition.

Mischief among the Penguins is H.W. Tilman's account of his voyage to the Southern Ocean island groups of Crozet and Kerguelen, on his fifty-year-old wooden pilot cutter Mischief.