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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as everest)
avg rating 4.27 — 594,672 ratings — published 1997
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as everest)
avg rating 4.00 — 19,099 ratings — published 1997
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as everest)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,582 ratings — published 2008
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as everest)
avg rating 3.61 — 8,574 ratings — published 2000
Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as everest)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,851 ratings — published 2001
High Crimes: the Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as everest)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,626 ratings — published 2008
Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as everest)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,613 ratings — published 2007
After the Wind: 1996 Everest Tragedy—One Survivor's Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as everest)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,382 ratings — published 2014
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as everest)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,982 ratings — published 2011
High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as everest)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,649 ratings — published 1955
The Other Side of Everest: Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as everest)
avg rating 3.92 — 793 ratings — published 1999
The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as everest)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,521 ratings — published 1999
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as everest)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,783 ratings — published 1999
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as everest)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,826 ratings — published 2006
Climbing High: A Woman's Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy – The Honest Personal Memoir of Lene Gammelgaard's 1996 Summit and Storm (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as everest)
avg rating 3.48 — 927 ratings — published 1999
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as everest)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,771 ratings — published 2021
The Contest (Everest, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as everest)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,549 ratings — published 2002
Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as everest)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,578 ratings — published 1999
Above All Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as everest)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,975 ratings — published 2012
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as everest)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,930 ratings — published 2024
Mountain Madness: Scott Fischer, Mount Everest & a Life Lived on High (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as everest)
avg rating 4.12 — 666 ratings — published 2008
Ascent into Hell (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as everest)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,595 ratings — published 2017
The Death Zone (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as everest)
avg rating 4.11 — 653 ratings — published 1997
The Last Hours on Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as everest)
avg rating 3.78 — 444 ratings — published 2013
Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as everest)
avg rating 4.06 — 654 ratings — published 1997
A Day To Die For: 1996: Everest's Worst Disaster - One Survivor's Personal Journey to Uncover the Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as everest)
avg rating 3.74 — 780 ratings — published 2011
Everest: The West Ridge (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as everest)
avg rating 4.19 — 715 ratings — published 1966
The Next Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as everest)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,755 ratings — published 2021
The Abominable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as everest)
avg rating 3.63 — 10,235 ratings — published 2013
The Mountain: My Time on Everest (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as everest)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,135 ratings — published 2013
The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo Ascent (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as everest)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,127 ratings — published 1989
Doctor on Everest: Emergency Medicine at the Top of the World - A Personal Account of the 1996 Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as everest)
avg rating 4.00 — 435 ratings — published 2000
Just for the love of it (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as everest)
avg rating 3.96 — 431 ratings — published 1999
The Summit (Everest, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as everest)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,303 ratings — published 2002
Paths of Glory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as everest)
avg rating 4.03 — 20,910 ratings — published 2009
Everest: The Unclimbed Ridge (Adrenaline Classics)
by (shelved 6 times as everest)
avg rating 3.90 — 147 ratings — published 1983
View from the Summit: The Remarkable Memoir by the First Person to Conquer Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as everest)
avg rating 3.88 — 958 ratings — published 1999
Tiger of the Snows: The Autobiography of Tenzing of Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as everest)
avg rating 4.39 — 478 ratings — published 1955
Everest 1953: The Epic Story of the First Ascent (Legends and Lore)
by (shelved 6 times as everest)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,327 ratings — published 2013
Ultimate High: My Everest Odyssey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as everest)
avg rating 4.02 — 620 ratings — published 1997
The Ascent of Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as everest)
avg rating 3.93 — 709 ratings — published 1953
Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther than the Eye Can See (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as everest)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,549 ratings — published 2001
The Mystery of Mallory & Irvine (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as everest)
avg rating 3.99 — 134 ratings — published 1986
Within Reach: My Everest Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as everest)
avg rating 3.54 — 988 ratings — published 1998
Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as everest)
avg rating 3.92 — 401 ratings — published 1999
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as everest)
avg rating 4.05 — 26,593 ratings — published 1990
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as everest)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,244 ratings — published 2009
Savage Summit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as everest)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,286 ratings — published 2005
Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as everest)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,065 ratings — published
“What the continents had in common was far less important than what was different. To be successful on the peaks it was more important to learn intuitively and adapt to the new cultures and climbing conditions, than to ascend relying on past experience.”
― To Everest Via Antarctica: Climbing Solo on the Highest Peak on Each of the World's Seven Continents
― To Everest Via Antarctica: Climbing Solo on the Highest Peak on Each of the World's Seven Continents
“Because it's there.”
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