V-Publishing Blog - Vertebrate Publishing

Five fantastic family friendly walks in Devon and Cornwall

18 Mar 2019

With its relatively warm climate, lengthy coastline and atmospheric moorland, the West Country is packed with great walks ...

How to find a publisher – Some tips from our MD about pitching your book

11 Mar 2019

Here is some advice for approaching small to mid-sized publishers. For larger publishers, especially fiction you’ll most ...

Book of the month: Dolpo

1 Mar 2019

A culturally Tibetan remote mountain region in north-west Nepal, Dolpo is home to breathtaking snow-capped landscapes and ...

Author interview: Michael Gill; Edmund Hillary – A Biography

26 Feb 2019

Michael Gill, the author of Hillary's new biography, was a medical student in 1959 when he answered a newspaper advert for ...

A review of Troll Wall by an avid mountaineering book collector

5 Feb 2019

Respected mountaineering guidebook and narrative collector David Price tells us about his all-time favourite mountain book. ...

Guest blog: Mick Fowler

5 Feb 2019

Mention of mistakes always make me think back to my first ever Himalayan trip, an attempt on the wonderfully named Bojohagur ...

Book of the month: No Easy Way

4 Feb 2019

Dubbed the ‘Mountaineer’s Mountaineer’ in a poll in The Observer, Mick Fowler is one of a specialist number of mountaineers ...

An interview with Di Taylor

29 Jan 2019

Di Taylor has been climbing and exploring the remote corners of the globe for sixty years, clocking up first ascents in the ...

Tony Howard's Top Ten Travel Tips

29 Jan 2019

Famed for the first British ascent of Norway’s Troll Wall and designing the modern sit harness, Tony Howard has dedicated ...

Husky shooting cover up on Hillary Antarctic expedition

17 Jan 2019

The Sunday Times recently reported that for decades after Edmund Hillary and Vivian Fuchs completed the first overland crossing ...

Are you an ebook convert? Seven reasons to go digital