55 books
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46 voters
Mountain Climbing Books
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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 4.26 — 570,572 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 — 64,831 ratings — published 1988
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.99 — 18,421 ratings — published 1997
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,496 ratings — published 2006
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,322 ratings — published 2008
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,874 ratings — published 2010
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,744 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 — 6,969 ratings — published 2009
Peak (Peak, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.97 — 22,594 ratings — published 2007
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
by (shelved 18 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,586 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 — 3,736 ratings — published 1999
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.61 — 8,235 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 — 1,914 ratings — published 2007
Paths of Glory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.02 — 20,488 ratings — published 2009
High Crimes: the Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,522 ratings — published 2008
K2 the Savage Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,407 ratings — published 1954
Savage Summit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,256 ratings — published 2005
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.22 — 11,562 ratings — published 2012
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.66 — 358,773 ratings — published 2006
The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,956 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 — 4,291 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 — 4,790 ratings — published 2011
K2: Triumph and Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,187 ratings — published 1987
Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,560 ratings — published 1999
Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,790 ratings — published 2001
The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,480 ratings — published 1999
Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,040 ratings — published
A Change in Altitude (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.26 — 12,410 ratings — published 1998
The Abominable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.62 — 9,593 ratings — published 2013
The Climb Up to Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.05 — 574 ratings — published 1962
Seven Summits (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,216 ratings — published 1986
Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,578 ratings — published 2007
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 — 583 ratings — published 2010
Dark Shadows Falling (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.82 — 834 ratings — published 1997
Addicted to Danger: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.78 — 643 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 — 4,515 ratings — published 1959
Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.85 — 23,719 ratings — published 2004
Breathless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.62 — 27,580 ratings — published 2022
Annapurna: A Woman's Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,081 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 — 652 ratings — published 2006
This Game of Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,467 ratings — published 1993
The Honest Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,316 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 — 1,344 ratings — published 2014
The Mountain: My Time on Everest (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,081 ratings — published 2013
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,195,836 ratings — published 1996
On the Ridge Between Life and Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.97 — 560 ratings — published 2005
High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2 (Adrenaline Books)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.63 — 374 ratings — published 1998
One Wrong Step (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,475 ratings — published 2025
Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.29 — 489 ratings — published 2024
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,489 ratings — published 2021
“when you get to the peak, remember the valley exists”
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“When you climb to the top of a mountain and still thinking about your own little problems rather than major universal issues, then you haven't climbed that mountain, you're still in the lower valleys!”
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