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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.27 — 591,535 ratings — published 1997
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.23 — 66,888 ratings — published 1988
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.99 — 18,990 ratings — published 1997
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,550 ratings — published 2008
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,785 ratings — published 2006
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,320 ratings — published 2010
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.05 — 26,495 ratings — published 1990
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,213 ratings — published 2009
Peak (Peak, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.97 — 23,178 ratings — published
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
by (shelved 18 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,883 ratings — published 1951
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,778 ratings — published 1999
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.61 — 8,530 ratings — published 2000
Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,968 ratings — published 2007
Paths of Glory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.03 — 20,818 ratings — published 2009
High Crimes: the Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,612 ratings — published 2008
K2 the Savage Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,475 ratings — published 1954
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.22 — 12,186 ratings — published 2012
Savage Summit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,280 ratings — published 2005
The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,998 ratings — published
Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,486 ratings — published 2014
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,950 ratings — published 2011
Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,840 ratings — published 2001
K2: Triumph and Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,200 ratings — published 1987
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.66 — 359,520 ratings — published 2006
Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,573 ratings — published 1999
Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,613 ratings — published 2007
The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,517 ratings — published 1999
Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,062 ratings — published
A Change in Altitude (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.26 — 12,623 ratings — published 1998
The Abominable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.63 — 10,150 ratings — published 2013
The Climb Up to Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.05 — 591 ratings — published 1962
Seven Summits (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,245 ratings — published 1986
One Mountain Thousand Summits: The Untold Story Tragedy and True Heroism on K2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.65 — 590 ratings — published 2010
Dark Shadows Falling (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.83 — 849 ratings — published 1997
Addicted to Danger: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.80 — 657 ratings — published 1996
The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,645 ratings — published 1959
Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.85 — 24,187 ratings — published 2004
High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2 (Adrenaline Books)
by (shelved 6 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.63 — 386 ratings — published 1998
Breathless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.62 — 28,389 ratings — published 2022
Annapurna: A Woman's Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,196 ratings — published 1980
The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.83 — 671 ratings — published 2006
This Game of Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,498 ratings — published 1993
The Honest Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,587 ratings — published 2015
After the Wind: 1996 Everest Tragedy—One Survivor's Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,379 ratings — published 2014
The Mountain: My Time on Everest (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,123 ratings — published 2013
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,226,473 ratings — published 1996
On the Ridge Between Life and Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.96 — 568 ratings — published 2005
The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.99 — 613 ratings — published 2010
Epic: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks (Audio Cassette)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,208 ratings — published 1997
One Wrong Step (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,990 ratings — published 2025
“Breaking Everest by Stewart Stafford
On this Everest of déjà vu,
We broke up in avalanches,
Rote tumbling and tedium,
Dead stares at the bottom.
Climbers phoning in motion,
A poke for the All-Seeing Eye,
Pack mules heaving baggage,
Tense on the musical ski lifts.
Even with three tiny travellers,
That peak hosted no summits,
Cast-off hairshirt strait-jackets,
The wound-licking began afresh.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
―
On this Everest of déjà vu,
We broke up in avalanches,
Rote tumbling and tedium,
Dead stares at the bottom.
Climbers phoning in motion,
A poke for the All-Seeing Eye,
Pack mules heaving baggage,
Tense on the musical ski lifts.
Even with three tiny travellers,
That peak hosted no summits,
Cast-off hairshirt strait-jackets,
The wound-licking began afresh.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
―
“A dim sun shines faintly through the clouds. I gaze up at the mountain I must climb, then lower my eyes to look at my trembling legs. My legs are fragile but my spirit remains undaunted. Step by step, I will traverse upward. I will be there.”
― Our Nepal, Our Pride
― Our Nepal, Our Pride
