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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 479 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.27 — 591,463 ratings — published 1997
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 263 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.23 — 66,880 ratings — published 1988
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.99 — 18,990 ratings — published 1997
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 26,493 ratings — published 1990
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,786 ratings — published 2006
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
by (shelved 170 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,882 ratings — published 1951
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 12,184 ratings — published 2012
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,212 ratings — published 2009
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,550 ratings — published 2008
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,317 ratings — published 2010
The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,645 ratings — published 1959
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,950 ratings — published 2011
Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,485 ratings — published 2014
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.61 — 8,529 ratings — published 2000
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.60 — 4,008 ratings — published 1960
Savage Summit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,280 ratings — published 2005
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,778 ratings — published 1999
Annapurna: A Woman's Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,196 ratings — published 1980
K2 the Savage Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,475 ratings — published 1954
High Crimes: the Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,612 ratings — published 2008
Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,840 ratings — published 2001
Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,062 ratings — published
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,058 ratings — published 2003
The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,437 ratings — published 2011
Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,968 ratings — published 2007
The Beckoning Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,795 ratings — published 2002
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.98 — 27,500 ratings — published 2013
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,741 ratings — published 2021
The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,517 ratings — published 1999
The Ghosts of K2: The Epic Saga of the First Ascent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,212 ratings — published 2015
Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,613 ratings — published 2007
The Mountain: My Time on Everest (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,123 ratings — published 2013
The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo Ascent (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,117 ratings — published 1989
Conquistadors of the Useless (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,680 ratings — published 1961
The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration)
by (shelved 47 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,753 ratings — published 1994
Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,573 ratings — published 1999
Everest: The West Ridge (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 708 ratings — published 1966
K2: Triumph and Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,200 ratings — published 1987
High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,641 ratings — published 1955
Minus 148 Degrees: The First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,294 ratings — published 1969
This Game of Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,497 ratings — published 1993
The Naked Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 907 ratings — published 2002
The Death Zone (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 650 ratings — published 1997
Dark Shadows Falling (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.83 — 849 ratings — published 1997
Alone on the Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.88 — 14,576 ratings — published 2015
Beyond the Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,252 ratings — published 2009
The shining mountain: Two men on Changabang's west wall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.29 — 821 ratings — published 1985
One Mountain Thousand Summits: The Untold Story Tragedy and True Heroism on K2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.65 — 590 ratings — published 2010
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 31 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.48 — 920 ratings — published 1999
True Summit: What Really Happened on the Legendary Ascent on Annapurna (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.85 — 452 ratings — published 2000
“To my brothers from Nepal,”
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“Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.”
― Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
― Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
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alpinism and mountain-climbing