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Mountaineering Books
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 469 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 574,803 ratings — published 1997
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.23 — 65,266 ratings — published 1988
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 214 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.99 — 18,524 ratings — published 1997
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,911 ratings — published 1990
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
by (shelved 169 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,647 ratings — published 1951
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 169 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,558 ratings — published 2006
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 11,705 ratings — published 2012
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,020 ratings — published 2009
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,368 ratings — published 2008
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,984 ratings — published 2010
The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,545 ratings — published 1959
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,823 ratings — published 2011
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.61 — 8,301 ratings — published 2000
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.59 — 3,995 ratings — published 1960
Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,329 ratings — published 2014
Savage Summit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,257 ratings — published 2005
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,745 ratings — published 1999
K2 the Savage Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,429 ratings — published 1954
Annapurna: A Woman's Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,103 ratings — published 1980
High Crimes: the Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,537 ratings — published 2008
Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,046 ratings — published
Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,808 ratings — published 2001
The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,403 ratings — published 2011
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,710 ratings — published 2003
Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,923 ratings — published 2007
The Beckoning Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,741 ratings — published 2002
The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,487 ratings — published 1999
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,549 ratings — published 2021
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.98 — 26,731 ratings — published 2013
Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,586 ratings — published 2007
The Ghosts of K2: The Epic Saga of the First Ascent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,127 ratings — published 2015
The Mountain: My Time on Everest (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,086 ratings — published 2013
Conquistadors of the Useless (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,603 ratings — published 1961
Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,564 ratings — published 1999
The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration)
by (shelved 46 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,698 ratings — published 1994
The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo Ascent (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,050 ratings — published 1989
Everest: The West Ridge (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 693 ratings — published 1966
K2: Triumph and Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,194 ratings — published 1987
High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,598 ratings — published 1955
This Game of Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,471 ratings — published 1993
Minus 148 Degrees: The First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,196 ratings — published 1969
The Naked Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 866 ratings — published 2002
The Death Zone (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.10 — 642 ratings — published 1997
True Summit: What Really Happened on the Legendary Ascent on Annapurna (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.86 — 447 ratings — published 2000
Dark Shadows Falling (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.82 — 836 ratings — published 1997
Beyond the Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,205 ratings — published 2009
One Mountain Thousand Summits: The Untold Story Tragedy and True Heroism on K2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.65 — 585 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 — 897 ratings — published 1999
The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,965 ratings — published
Mountain Madness: Scott Fischer, Mount Everest & a Life Lived on High (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 663 ratings — published 2008
“Silent and awkward types yearn for the mountains.”
― The Climber, Vol. 1
― The Climber, Vol. 1
“I like the mountains because they make me feel small,' Jeff says. 'They help me sort out what's important in life.”
― Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled--and Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High
― Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled--and Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High
The following shelves are listed as duplicates of this shelf:
alpinism and mountain-climbing
