Long-term investing, like mountain climbing, is a journey with no shortcuts to success. In The Steady Climb, Jay Hack, financial advisor and former mountain guide, shares a philosophy of wealth management passed down from his father, Paul Hack. Optimistic, fundamentally sound, and patient, it is a philosophy based on the wisdom of history's great investors-and a philosophy that applies to more than investing. As the stories in this book illustrate, taking the long-term approach isn't alway...

A leading educator makes Forex investing as easy as driving a carIn The Forex Trading Manual, Javier Paz provides easy-to-understand examples of long- and short-term strategies, best practices for navigating the economic calendar, and applications for trading a variety of currencies. To make this complex subject simple, he draws analogies between the different steps of trading in this market to the steps of turning on and driving a car. You’ll learn:

Ron Fawcett is a natural-born climber. In 1969, while still at school in his native Yorkshire, he tied into a climbing rope for the first time and was instantly hooked. From that moment on, it seemed nothing else in his life mattered nearly as much as his next vertical fix. Ten years later, Fawcett was the most famous rock climber in Britain and among the best in the world, part of a new wave whose dedication to training transformed the sport, pushing standards further and faster than ever...

•*Reveals the long view from an icon who, with age, has added wisdom to his list of accomplishments•*Messner climbing firsts: the world’s fourteen peaks taller than 8000 meters; Everest solo; Everest without supplemental oxygen•*Author of more than 60 booksReinhold Messner: My Life at the Limit, the newest book by the famed mountaineer, is a conversation between Messner and interviewer Thomas Hüetlin, an award-winning German journalist. It reveals a more thoughtful an...

2013 was the deadliest season ever seen in the Karakoram. When John Quillen found his climbing partner lying face down with a shattered leg in the snow high on the flanks of Broad Peak, the drama had just begun. See what transpired through first hand accounts of the deaths of three team members on this ill fated expedition to the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods.

What does it take to achieve superior performance and become a successful investor? Rather than great stock pricing or market timing skills, it is far better for you to understand how the markets work and how to make them work best for you. Larry E. Swedroe argues that the right strategy never changes, no matter whether the bull is stampeding or the bear has emerged from hibernation.The Successful Investor Today was written during one of the greatest bear markets of the pos...

It takes forty days to know the mountain.Each spring, over eight hundred climbers attempt to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. The conditions are challenging, and without warning can become life-threatening. Some make it to the top of what is considered the world’s most majestic mountain, but others are not so lucky, and in the attempt to reach the elusive summit, many more have tragically lost their lives. Not all are recovered, their bodies left to the mountain.In the spri...

'Climbing is a bit like rolling a dice - sometimes things fall into place and you achieve your aim. Sometimes your number comes up.' - Sue Fear, April 2006When mountaineers Lincoln Hall and Sue Fear collaborated in writing Fear No Boundary, neither could have imagined that within a year one would be left for dead and the other would die on the mountains they loved.In April 2006 Sue Fear, the first Australian woman ...

Save money. Retire early. The lazy way.So you've heard of lazy investing? But you're not quite sure what it's all about? You want to invest your money wisely, while avoiding crazy high fees and shady brokers? You know you need to save for retirement, but you don't know how? If this sounds like you, then The Lazy Investors’ Guide is exactly what you need!Investing doesn't have to be as difficult as it’s usually made out to be. There's got to...

Learn and earn from foriegn shares investment! All told from the prespective of a full time investor in Malaysia. This is the ultimate guide for beginners who are interested to learn more about the subject. Rich in details but written in a simplified manner, this book will show you how you can make full use of simple tools, adopt the right techniques when anlaysing companies and most important of all, how to lower your risk exposure while being able to benefit from your inv...

Upon that Mountain is the first autobiography of the mountaineer and explorer Eric Shipton. In it, he describes all his pre-war climbing, including his Everest bids of the 1930s, and his second Karakoram survey in 1939, when he returned to Snow Lake to complete the mapping of the ranges flanking the Hispar and Choktoi glacier systems around the Ogre. Crossing great swathes of the Himalaya, the book, like so many of Shipton's works, is both entertaining and an important addition to the moun...