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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 563,335 ratings
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Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
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4.23 avg rating — 64,229 ratings
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Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
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4.09 avg rating — 10,492 ratings
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Kilimanjaro and Beyond: A Life-Changing Journey
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4.01 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
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3.99 avg rating — 18,245 ratings
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No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
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4.14 avg rating — 11,377 ratings
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K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
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4.01 avg rating — 6,908 ratings
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Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
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4.22 avg rating — 11,355 ratings
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Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
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4.04 avg rating — 25,488 ratings
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Seven Years in Tibet
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4.10 avg rating — 26,460 ratings
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The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger
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4.10 avg rating — 4,485 ratings
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No Way Down: Life and Death on K2
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3.98 avg rating — 7,763 ratings
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The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo Ascent
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4.03 avg rating — 1,030 ratings
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Savage Summit
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4.05 avg rating — 2,244 ratings
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Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills
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4.59 avg rating — 3,967 ratings
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Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
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3.94 avg rating — 6,261 ratings
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Conquistadors of the Useless
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4.32 avg rating — 1,560 ratings
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High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest
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4.15 avg rating — 1,569 ratings
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This Game of Ghosts
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4.04 avg rating — 1,456 ratings
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Edge of the Map: The Mountain Life of Christine Boskoff
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4.26 avg rating — 566 ratings
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Annapurna: A Woman's Place
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4.19 avg rating — 3,048 ratings
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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
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4.27 avg rating — 4,742 ratings
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Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber
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4.19 avg rating — 1,117 ratings
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High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places
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3.93 avg rating — 3,723 ratings
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The Everest Years: A Climbers Life
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4.18 avg rating — 225 ratings
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The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak
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4.02 avg rating — 1,376 ratings
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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
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3.94 avg rating — 14,398 ratings
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Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure
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3.94 avg rating — 646 ratings
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All Fourteen 8,000ers
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4.15 avg rating — 239 ratings
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The Mountain of My Fear / Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative
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4.36 avg rating — 540 ratings
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A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
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3.95 avg rating — 6,989 ratings
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The Time Has Come: Ger McDonnell - His Life & His Death on K2
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4.10 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Tower
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4.31 avg rating — 862 ratings
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Freedom Climbers
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4.31 avg rating — 935 ratings
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The Endless Knot: K2 Mountain of Dreams and Destiny
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4.16 avg rating — 377 ratings
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Dark Shadows Falling
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3.83 avg rating — 826 ratings
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Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World
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4.16 avg rating — 1,424 ratings
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Everest the hard way
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4.02 avg rating — 328 ratings
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The shining mountain: Two men on Changabang's west wall
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4.29 avg rating — 766 ratings
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The Ghosts of K2: The Epic Saga of the First Ascent
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4.24 avg rating — 1,087 ratings
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Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
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3.98 avg rating — 26,085 ratings
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One Day as a Tiger: Alex MacIntyre and the Birth of Light and Fast Alpinism
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3.96 avg rating — 142 ratings
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The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits
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4.46 avg rating — 10,432 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 563,335 ratings
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Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak
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3.88 avg rating — 4,235 ratings
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The Edge of Never: A Skier's Story of Life, Death, and Dreams in the World's Most Dangerous Mountains
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4.23 avg rating — 112 ratings
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The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest
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4.06 avg rating — 1,471 ratings
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Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer
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4.26 avg rating — 1,030 ratings
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I Chose to Climb
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4.20 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Everest: The West Ridge
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4.20 avg rating — 668 ratings
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Summit: A Novel
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4.22 avg rating — 1,748 ratings
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Forget Me Not: A Memoir
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4.04 avg rating — 881 ratings
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The Next Everest
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4.09 avg rating — 1,624 ratings
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Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine
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4.08 avg rating — 1,552 ratings
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Last Climb: The Legendary Everest Expeditions of George Mallory
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4.08 avg rating — 309 ratings
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Training for Climbing: The Definitive Guide To Improving Your Performance (How To Climb Series)
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4.18 avg rating — 671 ratings
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Minus 148 Degrees: The First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley
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4.33 avg rating — 2,126 ratings
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Art of Freedom: The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka
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4.23 avg rating — 960 ratings
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Training for the New Alpinism: A Manual for the Climber as Athlete
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4.53 avg rating — 1,366 ratings
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A Youth Wasted Climbing
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3.74 avg rating — 118 ratings
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No Picnic on Mount Kenya: The Story of Three POWs' Escape to Adventure
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4.03 avg rating — 2,515 ratings
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High Crimes: the Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed
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3.74 avg rating — 3,491 ratings
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The Bold and Cold: A History of 25 Classic Climbs in the Canadian Rockies
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4.19 avg rating — 26 ratings
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My Life: Eiger North Face, Grandes Jorasses and Other Adventures
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4.32 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
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4.14 avg rating — 81,684 ratings
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Savage Arena: K2, Changabang and the North Face of the Eiger
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4.44 avg rating — 635 ratings
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Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage: The Lonely Challenge
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4.27 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Beyond the Mountain
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4.21 avg rating — 1,179 ratings
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Everest the Cruel Way: The audacious winter attempt of the West Ridge
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3.94 avg rating — 431 ratings
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1001 Climbing Tips: The Essential Climbers' Guide: From Rock, Ice and Big-Wall Climbing to Diet, Training and Mountain Survival
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4.14 avg rating — 105 ratings
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True Summit: What Really Happened on the Legendary Ascent on Annapurna
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3.86 avg rating — 441 ratings
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Kangchenjunga The Untrodden Peak
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3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Mountains of My Life
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4.11 avg rating — 1,660 ratings
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The Six Mountain-Travel Books
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4.47 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Feeding the Rat: A Climber's Life on the Edge
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3.99 avg rating — 392 ratings
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Classic Rock
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4.47 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Kilimanjaro: One Man's Quest to Go Over the Hill
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3.82 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Graphic the Valley
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4.06 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Solo: Nanga Parbat
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4.10 avg rating — 339 ratings
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Everest : Expedition to the Ultimate
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3.95 avg rating — 555 ratings
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The Boardman Tasker Omnibus
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4.47 avg rating — 201 ratings
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Sacred summits: A climber's year
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4.30 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Rakaposhi
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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In Search of Peaks, Passes & Glaciers: Irish Alpin Pioneers
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Snow Tales and Powder Trails: Adventures on Skis
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Last Hours on Everest
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3.77 avg rating — 430 ratings
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Total High: My Everest Challenge
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4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Storm & Sorrow in the High Pamirs
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3.97 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Surviving Logan
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3.89 avg rating — 108 ratings
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No Barriers: A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon
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4.10 avg rating — 872 ratings
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Die Trying: One Man's Quest to Conquer the Seven Summits
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3.61 avg rating — 94 ratings
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A Place In Which To Search: Summers in the Wind Rivers
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4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Climbing Days
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3.68 avg rating — 74 ratings
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The Bond: Two Epic Climbs in Alaska and a Lifetime's Connection Between Climbers
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4.58 avg rating — 280 ratings
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The Climb Up to Hell
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4.06 avg rating — 563 ratings
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Hangdog Days: Conflict, Change, and the Race for 5.14
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4.31 avg rating — 345 ratings
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Rockhead
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4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Straight Up: Himalayan Tales of the Unexpected
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3.48 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering after the Enlightenment
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3.32 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The High Sierra: A Love Story
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4.28 avg rating — 1,850 ratings
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The genre takes us from the small scale of crag climbing to the epic walks into blank uncharted areas of the world. I'm finding it difficult to add substantially on the truly micro-subject of bouldering, which I love, so any suggestions on that area, or any of the aspects of climbing are always appreciated