Mountaineering

The term mountaineering describes the sport of mountain climbing, including ski mountaineering. Hiking in the mountains can also be a simple form of mountaineering when it involves scrambling, or short stretches of the more basic grades of rock climbing, as well as crossing glaciers.

Also known as Mountain Climbing and Alpinism

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Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali
One Wrong Step
Life Lived Wild:  Adventures at the Edge of the Map
Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest
Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains
Alpine Rising: Sherpas, Baltis, and the Triumph of Local Climbers in the Greater Ranges
A Light through the Cracks: A Climber's Story
Dixon, Descending
In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage
Fallen: George Mallory and the Tragic 1924 Everest Expedition
Everest 1922: The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the World's Highest Mountain
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2
The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak

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:

George Mallory
How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . . Is this the summit, crowning the day? How cool and quiet! We're not exultant; but delighted, joyful; soberly astonished. . . Have we vanquished an enemy? None but ourselves. Have we gained success? That word means nothing here. Have we won a kingdom? No. . . and yes. We have achieved an ultimate satisfaction ...more
George Mallory, Climbing Everest: The Complete Writings of George Mallory

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