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Mountain Climbing Books
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.26 — 557,369 ratings — published 1997
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.23 — 63,714 ratings — published 1988
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.99 — 18,092 ratings — published 1997
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,299 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 — 6,191 ratings — published 2008
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,647 ratings — published 2010
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,283 ratings — published 1990
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,848 ratings — published 2009
Peak (Peak, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.97 — 22,300 ratings — published 2007
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
by (shelved 19 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,393 ratings — published 1951
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,712 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 — 8,017 ratings — published 2000
Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,894 ratings — published 2007
K2 the Savage Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,383 ratings — published 1954
Paths of Glory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.02 — 20,302 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 — 3,450 ratings — published 2008
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 — 11,167 ratings — published 2012
Savage Summit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,244 ratings — published 2005
Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,170 ratings — published 2014
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,702 ratings — published 2011
K2: Triumph and Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,174 ratings — published 1987
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 — 358,382 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 3.94 — 1,920 ratings — published
Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,549 ratings — published 1999
Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,740 ratings — published 2001
The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,457 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 — 1,024 ratings — published
A Change in Altitude (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.26 — 12,322 ratings — published 1998
The Abominable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.62 — 9,225 ratings — published 2013
The Climb Up to Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.06 — 553 ratings — published 1962
Addicted to Danger: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.79 — 631 ratings — published 1996
Seven Summits (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,199 ratings — published 1986
Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,563 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 — 580 ratings — published 2010
Dark Shadows Falling (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.83 — 821 ratings — published 1997
After the Wind: 1996 Everest Tragedy—One Survivor's Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,318 ratings — published 2014
The Mountain: My Time on Everest (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,057 ratings — published 2013
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,175,908 ratings — published 1996
On the Ridge Between Life and Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.97 — 558 ratings — published 2005
The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,459 ratings — published 1959
Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.85 — 23,455 ratings — published 2004
Breathless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.63 — 26,932 ratings — published 2022
Annapurna: A Woman's Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,019 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 3.84 — 643 ratings — published 2006
This Game of Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,453 ratings — published 1993
The Honest Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,141 ratings — published 2015
The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,363 ratings — published 2011
Everest: The West Ridge (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.20 — 662 ratings — published 1966
The Other Side of Everest: Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 3.92 — 766 ratings — published 1999
Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mountain-climbing)
avg rating 4.05 — 636 ratings — published 1997
“As you climb down the mountain, a disturbing emotion emerges in your soul! This is a sense of emptiness that comes from seeing that climbing to the top is not a great victory that glorifies or raises man!”
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“When I am climbing, the mountain is part of me, and I am part of it.”
― A Story of Karma: Finding Love and Truth in the Lost Valley of the Himalaya
― A Story of Karma: Finding Love and Truth in the Lost Valley of the Himalaya
