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

La felicità del lupo
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
One Wrong Step
Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali
The Moth and the Mountain
Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas
Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains
Berbeka. Życie w cieniu Broad Peaku
Life Lived Wild:  Adventures at the Edge of the Map
A Light through the Cracks: A Climber's Story
In the Shadow of the Mountain
The Next Everest
Dixon, Descending
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
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills

George Mallory
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George Mallory

Jack Kerouac
I had really learned that you can’t fall off a mountain. Whether you *can* fall off a mountain or not I don’t know, but I had learned that you can’t. That was the way it struck me.
Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

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