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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.27 — 592,338 ratings — published 1997
Alone on the Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.88 — 14,601 ratings — published 2015
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.23 — 66,973 ratings — published 1988
The Rock Warrior's Way: Mental Training for Climbers (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,431 ratings — published 2003
9 Out of 10 Climbers Make the Same Mistakes: Navigation Through the Maze of Advice for the Self-coached Climber (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,235 ratings — published 2009
The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.46 — 11,254 ratings — published 2017
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.05 — 26,517 ratings — published 1990
Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,520 ratings — published 2002
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.60 — 4,011 ratings — published 1960
Training for Climbing: The Definitive Guide to Improving Your Climbing Performance (How to Climb Series)
by (shelved 81 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.19 — 691 ratings — published 1997
Self-Coached Climber (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.22 — 567 ratings — published
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.99 — 19,025 ratings — published 1997
Climbing Anchors (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.36 — 416 ratings — published 1993
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
by (shelved 57 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,896 ratings — published 1951
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,792 ratings — published 2006
Vertical Mind: Psychological Approaches for Optimal Rock Climbing (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.96 — 366 ratings — published 2014
The Rock Climber's Training Manual | A Guide to Continuous Improvement (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.48 — 295 ratings — published 2014
The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,652 ratings — published 1959
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,220 ratings — published 2009
The Beckoning Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,800 ratings — published 2002
Training for the New Alpinism: A Manual for the Climber as Athlete (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.53 — 1,431 ratings — published 2014
Make or Break: Don't Let Climbing Injuries Dictate Your Success (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.48 — 208 ratings — published 2015
The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,565 ratings — published 2019
Espresso Lessons From The Rock Warrior's Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.21 — 296 ratings — published 2009
How To Climb 5.12 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.74 — 322 ratings — published 1994
Conquistadors of the Useless (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,684 ratings — published 1961
Psychovertical (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.28 — 936 ratings — published 2008
Rock Climbing Technique: The Practical Guide to Movement Mastery (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.44 — 272 ratings — published
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,076 ratings — published 2003
High Infatuation: A Climber's Guide to Love and Gravity (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,122 ratings — published 2007
Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,182 ratings — published 2001
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,556 ratings — published 2008
Mastermind: Mental Training for Climbers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.23 — 181 ratings — published
A Light through the Cracks: A Climber's Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,242 ratings — published 2024
How to Rock Climb! (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.94 — 284 ratings — published 1989
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.22 — 12,215 ratings — published 2012
Better Bouldering (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.94 — 185 ratings — published 1997
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,336 ratings — published 2010
Rock Climbing Anchors: A Comprehensive Guide (The Mountaineers Outdoor Experts Series)
by (shelved 25 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.32 — 230 ratings — published 2006
The Climbing Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.42 — 244 ratings — published 2018
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.61 — 8,545 ratings — published 2000
Climbing Self Rescue: Improvising Solutions for Serious Situations (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.24 — 117 ratings — published 2006
Conditioning for Climbers: The Complete Exercise Guide (How To Climb Series)
by (shelved 23 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.82 — 186 ratings — published 2008
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,780 ratings — published 1999
Rock Climbing: Mastering Basic Skills (Mountaineers Outdoor Expert)
by (shelved 23 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.02 — 260 ratings — published 2004
The Tower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.31 — 929 ratings — published 2014
This Game of Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,499 ratings — published 1993
Annapurna: A Woman's Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,199 ratings — published 1980
Beastmaking: A fingers-first approach to becoming a better climber (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.38 — 421 ratings — published
Crack Climbing: The Definitive Guide (Mountaineers Outdoor Expert)
by (shelved 21 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.74 — 84 ratings — published
“Another day I walked out of town to do a bit of climbing in the mountains behind the airport. I scrambled up and down slopes that contained some of the oldest rocks in the world, isotope-dated at 3,800 billion years, remnants, so the geological rumor goes, of the earth's earliest terrestrial crust.”
― Last Places: A Journey in the North
― Last Places: A Journey in the North
“People ask me, 'What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?' and my answer must at once be, 'It is of no use.'There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. Oh, we may learn a little about the behaviour of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. But otherwise nothing will come of it. We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron... If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to live. That is what life means and what life is for.”
― Climbing Everest: The Complete Writings of George Mallory
― Climbing Everest: The Complete Writings of George Mallory
