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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 574,818 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 — 65,269 ratings — published 1988
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 11,560 ratings — published 2006
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.59 — 3,995 ratings — published 1960
Conquistadors of the Useless (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,604 ratings — published 1961
Extreme Alpinism: Climbing Light, Fast, and High (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 327 ratings — published 1999
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 18,525 ratings — published 1997
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 7,020 ratings — published 2009
Beyond the Mountain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 1,205 ratings — published 2009
The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,698 ratings — published 1994
Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 4,330 ratings — published 2014
Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 5,679 ratings — published 2020
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 11,705 ratings — published 2012
Everest: The West Ridge (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 693 ratings — published 1966
The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,403 ratings — published 2011
The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo Ascent (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,050 ratings — published 1989
Freedom Climbers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 949 ratings — published 2011
Training for the Uphill Athlete: A Manual for Mountain Runners and Ski Mountaineers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.57 — 2,191 ratings — published 2019
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 5,711 ratings — published 2003
Seven Years in Tibet (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 26,807 ratings — published 1953
Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,792 ratings — published 2021
The Tower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as alpinism)
avg rating 4.31 — 896 ratings — published 2014
The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 10,799 ratings — published 2017
The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 4,544 ratings — published 1959
Men Against the Clouds: The Conquest of Minya Konka (Revised Edition)
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avg rating 4.71 — 14 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 — 584 ratings — published 1954
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
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avg rating 4.09 — 10,647 ratings — published 1951
Ueli Steck: My Life in Climbing (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 302 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 3.82 — 836 ratings — published 1997
Training for the New Alpinism: A Manual for the Climber as Athlete (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.53 — 1,391 ratings — published 2014
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 25,912 ratings — published 1990
Art of Freedom: The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 979 ratings — published 2017
Solo: Nanga Parbat (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 345 ratings — published 1971
The Naked Mountain (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 866 ratings — published 2002
Długi film o miłości. Powrót na Broad Peak (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,037 ratings — published 2014
K2: Triumph and Tragedy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,194 ratings — published 1987
Na szczytach świata (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 70 ratings — published 1990
Et dans l'éternité je ne m'ennuierai pas. Souvenirs (Paperback)
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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 — 8 ratings — published
The shining mountain: Two men on Changabang's west wall (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 794 ratings — published 1985
The Great Journeys in History (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.90 — 118 ratings — published
Psychovertical (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 917 ratings — published 2008
Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 23,824 ratings — published 2004
The High Sierra: A Love Story (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,926 ratings — published 2022
Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 1,147 ratings — published 2001
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 6,368 ratings — published 2008
Summits of My Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 238 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 — 2,593 ratings — published 1947
“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
“Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants.”
― Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber
― Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber
