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

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Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali
A Wild Idea
The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within
A Light through the Cracks: A Climber's Story
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
Life Lived Wild:  Adventures at the Edge of the Map
The Next Everest
Dixon, Descending
Alpine Rising: Sherpas, Baltis, and the Triumph of Local Climbers in the Greater Ranges
Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World
Time on Rock: A Climber's Route into the Mountains
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
9 Out of 10 Climbers Make the Same Mistakes: Navigation Through the Maze of Advice for the Self-coached Climber
The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits
Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills
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
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
167 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

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


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Barry Finlay
Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.
Barry Finlay, Kilimanjaro and Beyond

Jodi Lynn Anderson
You looked strange climbing in the tree like that." Tiger Lily pulled her braids between her fingers, her sudden self-consciousness feeling foreign and strange to her. "I didn't do it to look nice," she said. "But you do care." Tiger Lily studied the tree and decided if she did care, she would now choose not to. "I don't," she said. "All girls do," he added, pushing the point. "You must not know many girls." "I know a million," Peter said, dark and serious. There was a long awkward silence, but ...more
Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

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