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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.26 — 582,876 ratings — published 1997
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.23 — 66,091 ratings — published 1988
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,668 ratings — published 2006
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.59 — 3,998 ratings — published 1960
Conquistadors of the Useless (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,641 ratings — published 1961
Extreme Alpinism: Climbing Light, Fast, and High (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 330 ratings — published 1999
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as alpinism)
avg rating 3.99 — 18,779 ratings — published 1997
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 7,110 ratings — published 2009
Beyond the Mountain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,228 ratings — published 2009
The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration)
by (shelved 4 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,713 ratings — published 1994
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,873 ratings — published 2003
Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as alpinism)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,402 ratings — published 2014
Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,778 ratings — published 2020
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.22 — 11,961 ratings — published 2012
Everest: The West Ridge (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.19 — 702 ratings — published 1966
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,202 ratings — published 1990
The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,420 ratings — published 2011
The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo Ascent (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,098 ratings — published 1989
Freedom Climbers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.31 — 960 ratings — published 2011
Training for the Uphill Athlete: A Manual for Mountain Runners and Ski Mountaineers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,307 ratings — published 2019
Seven Years in Tibet (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.10 — 27,069 ratings — published 1953
Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,860 ratings — published 2021
The Beckoning Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,765 ratings — published 2002
The Tower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.31 — 915 ratings — published 2014
The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.46 — 11,021 ratings — published 2017
The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,589 ratings — published 1959
Men Against the Clouds: The Conquest of Minya Konka (Revised Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.67 — 15 ratings — published 1980
Starlight and Storm: The Conquest of the Great North Faces of the Alps (Modern Library Exploration)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.18 — 595 ratings — published 1954
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,767 ratings — published 1951
Ueli Steck: My Life in Climbing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.15 — 310 ratings — published
40 let mojih soočanj s Himalajo (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published
Dark Shadows Falling (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 3.83 — 847 ratings — published 1997
Training for the New Alpinism: A Manual for the Climber as Athlete (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.53 — 1,409 ratings — published 2014
Art of Freedom: The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 989 ratings — published 2017
Solo: Nanga Parbat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.11 — 351 ratings — published 1971
The Naked Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.13 — 883 ratings — published 2002
Długi film o miłości. Powrót na Broad Peak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,042 ratings — published 2014
K2: Triumph and Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,194 ratings — published 1987
Na szczytach świata (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.34 — 71 ratings — published 1990
Enough: Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as alpinism)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,769 ratings — published
Tintin in Tibet (Tintin #20)
by (shelved 1 time as alpinism)
avg rating 4.25 — 19,879 ratings — published 1959
Et dans l'éternité je ne m'ennuierai pas. Souvenirs (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as alpinism)
avg rating 3.71 — 52 ratings — published 2014
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Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8000-Metre Peak by Herzog, Maurice [03 March 2011] (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 10 ratings — published
The shining mountain: Two men on Changabang's west wall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as alpinism)
avg rating 4.29 — 811 ratings — published 1985
The Great Journeys in History (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.90 — 123 ratings — published
Psychovertical (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 927 ratings — published 2008
Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 23,996 ratings — published 2004
The High Sierra: A Love Story (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 1,983 ratings — published 2022
Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 1,167 ratings — published 2001
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as alpinism)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,467 ratings — published 2008
“No single mountain ever came to me...
so I always go to them”
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so I always go to them”
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“The soul of alpinism is to travel light and fast through a dangerous landscape in pursuit of a personal star. That is ascent.”
― Enduring Patagonia
― Enduring Patagonia
