Ten Retail Essentials

1. Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills, 7th Edition. Sold around the globe in several different languages, this is the all-time-best-selling reference for the sport.

2. GPS Made Easy, 4th Edition. Another all-time-best-selling reference in its subject area.

3. Backpacker magazine series. This popular instructional series offers advice from writers at backpacking's most popular magazine (300,000 circulation).

4 . Mountaineers Outdoor Expert series. The leading outdoor "how-to" series from the most respected athletes in their fields. The series includes Climbing from Gym to Crag, Alpine Climbing, Gym Climbing, Rock Climbing, Big Wall Climbing, Ice and Mixed Climbing, Climbing: Training for Peak Performance, Climbing: Expedition Planning, Snoeshowing 5th Edition, Free-heel Skiing 3rd Edition, The ABCs of Avalanche Safety

5. Mountaineers Outdoor Basics series. These are the basic skills books for readers who enjoy an outdoor oriented lifestyle: Wilderness Navigation 2nd Edition, Mountaineering First Aid 5th Edition, Mountain Weather, The Outdoor Knots Book, and Wilderness Basics 3rd Edition.

6. Hiking guidebooks. Mountaineers Books guidebooks are differentiated by being feature rich and high quality, yet competitively priced. The 100 Hikes series is one of the orginal series in this niche. The Best Hikes with Children series was the first to address family hikes. The 100 Classic Hikes series books are the best sellers for each of the states they cover. And Best Hikes with Dogs has been embraced by dog lovers whether they hike or not.

7. Conditioning for Outdoor Fitness, 2nd Edition. Anyone wanting to get in shape for summer or winter outdoor sports will want this book, and tens of thousands already own it. It's the leading title on the topic.

8. Medicine for Mountaineering. This is the seminal reference for backcountry medicine.

9. Barbara Savage Award winners. Winners of this award are each compelling adventure narratives that frequently have gone on to win other prestigious awards. Strong selling titles that have won this award include: Miles From Nowhere, Where the Pavement Ends, Spirited Waters, A Blistered Kind of Love

10. Outdoor book awards. Mountaineers Books has a number of award winning titles and the recognized quality of these books make them solid sellers year after year.

National Outdoor Book Award winners: Ways to the Sky, The Beckoning Silence, Postcards from the Ledge, 100 Classic Hikes in Oregon, 100 Hikes in Yosemite National Park, 50 Favorite Climbs, Where the Pavement Ends, Wildest Dream, Bradford Washburn Mountain Photography, Kiss or Kill, Washington's Mount Rainier National Park

Banff Mountain Book Award winners: Ice and Mixed Climbing, Ways to the Sky, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land, 50 Favorite Climbs, Bradford Washburn Mountain Photography