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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.27 — 595,227 ratings — published 1997
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.23 — 67,266 ratings — published 1988
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,139 ratings — published 2003
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,834 ratings — published 2006
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.60 — 4,013 ratings — published 1960
Conquistadors of the Useless (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,702 ratings — published 1961
Extreme Alpinism: Climbing Light, Fast, and High (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.33 — 332 ratings — published 1999
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.00 — 19,115 ratings — published 1997
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,247 ratings — published 2009
Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,252 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 — 12,299 ratings — published 2012
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 — 1,445 ratings — published 2011
Beyond the Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,260 ratings — published 2009
The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration)
by (shelved 3 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,764 ratings — published 1994
Solo Faces (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,033 ratings — published 1979
The Beckoning Silence (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 2,809 ratings — published 2002
The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.46 — 11,312 ratings — published 2017
Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,517 ratings — published 2014
Men Against the Clouds: The Conquest of Minya Konka (Revised Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.69 — 16 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 4.19 — 618 ratings — published 1954
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,950 ratings — published 1951
Ueli Steck: My Life in Climbing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.14 — 318 ratings — published
40 let mojih soočanj s Himalajo (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published
Dark Shadows Falling (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 851 ratings — published 1997
Everest: The West Ridge (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.19 — 715 ratings — published 1966
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.05 — 26,617 ratings — published 1990
Art of Freedom: The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,012 ratings — published 2017
Solo: Nanga Parbat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.13 — 356 ratings — published 1971
The Naked Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.13 — 915 ratings — published 2002
The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo Ascent (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,127 ratings — published 1989
Freedom Climbers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 983 ratings — published 2011
Długi film o miłości. Powrót na Broad Peak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,053 ratings — published 2014
K2: Triumph and Tragedy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,204 ratings — published 1987
Na szczytach świata (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 72 ratings — published 1990
A Fine Line: Searching for Balance Among Mountains (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 306 ratings — published
Enough: Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 1,935 ratings — published
Tintin in Tibet (Tintin #20)
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avg rating 4.25 — 20,152 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
The shining mountain: Two men on Changabang's west wall (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 832 ratings — published 1985
The Great Journeys in History (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.90 — 127 ratings — published
Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 24,280 ratings — published 2004
The High Sierra: A Love Story (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 2,058 ratings — published 2022
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 6,587 ratings — published 2008
Summits of My Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 252 ratings — published 2018
Julijske Alpe: Bohinjske gore (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 2,711 ratings — published 1947
The Art of Shralpinism: Lessons from the Mountains (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.25 — 402 ratings — published
Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 1,521 ratings — published 2005
The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 3,586 ratings — published 2019
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 8,395 ratings — published 2010
“The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ass kicked.”
― Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber
― Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber
“Ultimately, I wanted to own a big truck, exercise my second Amendment rights, listen to hardcore music, and let my congressman know how poorly he represents me. None of this could occur in France.”
― Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber
― Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber