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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 — 591,474 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 — 66,883 ratings — published 1988
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,785 ratings — published 2006
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.60 — 4,008 ratings — published 1960
Conquistadors of the Useless (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,680 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
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,059 ratings — published 2003
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as alpinism)
avg rating 3.99 — 18,990 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 — 7,212 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 — 6,093 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 — 12,185 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 4.02 — 1,437 ratings — published 2011
Beyond the Mountain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 1,252 ratings — published 2009
The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration)
by (shelved 3 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,753 ratings — published 1994
Solo Faces (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 1,999 ratings — published 1979
The Beckoning Silence (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 2,795 ratings — published 2002
The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 11,233 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 — 4,485 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 — 613 ratings — published 1954
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)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published
Dark Shadows Falling (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 849 ratings — published 1997
Everest: The West Ridge (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.19 — 708 ratings — published 1966
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 26,493 ratings — published 1990
Art of Freedom: The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,005 ratings — published 2017
Solo: Nanga Parbat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.12 — 356 ratings — published 1971
The Naked Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.13 — 907 ratings — published 2002
The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo Ascent (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,117 ratings — published 1989
Freedom Climbers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.31 — 978 ratings — published 2011
Długi film o miłości. Powrót na Broad Peak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,051 ratings — published 2014
K2: Triumph and Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,200 ratings — published 1987
Na szczytach świata (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.33 — 72 ratings — published 1990
A Fine Line: Searching for Balance Among Mountains (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 301 ratings — published
Enough: Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 1,894 ratings — published
Tintin in Tibet (Tintin #20)
by (shelved 1 time as alpinism)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,053 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 4.23 — 13 ratings — published
The shining mountain: Two men on Changabang's west wall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as alpinism)
avg rating 4.29 — 821 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 — 24,188 ratings — published 2004
The High Sierra: A Love Story (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 2,042 ratings — published 2022
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 6,550 ratings — published 2008
Summits of My Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 248 ratings — published 2018
Julijske Alpe: Bohinjske gore (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
The Art of Shralpinism: Lessons from the Mountains (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.24 — 397 ratings — published
Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 1,515 ratings — published 2005
The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 3,559 ratings — published 2019
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 8,317 ratings — published 2010
Cartea înălțimilor. Povestea unei vieți de explorator (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.63 — 382 ratings — published
“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
“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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