Climbing

Climbing is the activity of using one's hands, feet, or any other part of the body to ascend a steep object. It is done recreationally, competitively, in trades that rely on it, and in emergency rescue and military operations. It is done indoors and out, on natural and man-made structures. ...more

The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within
Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali
The Moth and the Mountain
A Wild Idea
Life Lived Wild:  Adventures at the Edge of the Map
A Light through the Cracks: A Climber's Story
The Next Everest
Dixon, Descending
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest
The World Beneath Their Feet: Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas
How to Solve a Problem: The Rise (and Falls) of a Rock-Climbing Champion
Alpine Rising: Sherpas, Baltis, and the Triumph of Local Climbers in the Greater Ranges
Shook: An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest's Deadliest Day
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Alone on the Wall
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
The Rock Warrior's Way: Mental Training for Climbers
The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits
9 Out of 10 Climbers Make the Same Mistakes: Navigation Through the Maze of Advice for the Self-coached Climber
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills
Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
Training for Climbing: The Definitive Guide to Improving Your Climbing Performance (How to Climb Series)
Self-Coached Climber
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
Climbing Anchors
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Bitter Past by Bruce BorgosHeidi by Johanna SpyriMan Hunt by Vanessa ValeInto Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Mountains on the Cover
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Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Lost City of Z by David GrannSavage Harvest by Carl HoffmanIf I Can't Have You by Gregg OlsenFinding Everett Ruess by David  Roberts
What happened to them?
55 books — 46 voters

Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonK2 by Ed ViestursEiger Dreams by Jon Krakauer
Worshipping Mountains
166 books — 67 voters
Eight Keys by Suzanne LaFleurEvery Day After by Laura   GoldenMagnolia by Kristi CookOral History by Lee  SmithThe Bridge from Me to You by Lisa Schroeder
On the Fence
32 books — 8 voters

Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian JungerA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Vicarious Thrills
388 books — 419 voters


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Jon Krakauer
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams. ...more
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Maurice Herzog
I felt as though I were plunging into something new and quite abnormal. I had the strangest and most vivid impressions, such as I had never before known in the mountains. There was something unnatural in the way I saw Lachenal and everything around us. I smiled to myself at the paltriness of our efforts, for I could stand apart and watch myself making these efforts. But all sense of exertion was gone, as though there were no longer any gravity. This diaphanous landscape, this quintessence of pur ...more
Herzog Maurice, Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak:

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