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Mountaineering Books
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 473 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 578,503 ratings — published 1997
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 256 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.23 — 65,647 ratings — published 1988
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.99 — 18,623 ratings — published 1997
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,045 ratings — published 1990
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,614 ratings — published 2006
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
by (shelved 169 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,712 ratings — published 1951
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 11,831 ratings — published 2012
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,063 ratings — published 2009
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,420 ratings — published 2008
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.98 — 8,078 ratings — published 2010
The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,559 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 — 4,854 ratings — published 2011
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.61 — 8,352 ratings — published 2000
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.59 — 3,991 ratings — published 1960
Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,360 ratings — published 2014
Savage Summit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,265 ratings — published 2005
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,748 ratings — published 1999
Annapurna: A Woman's Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,126 ratings — published 1980
K2 the Savage Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,440 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 — 3,548 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 — 2,820 ratings — published 2001
Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,050 ratings — published
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 — 1,409 ratings — published 2011
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,803 ratings — published 2003
Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,938 ratings — published 2007
The Beckoning Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,751 ratings — published 2002
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,601 ratings — published 2021
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.98 — 26,909 ratings — published 2013
The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,493 ratings — published 1999
The Ghosts of K2: The Epic Saga of the First Ascent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,146 ratings — published 2015
The Mountain: My Time on Everest (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,090 ratings — published 2013
Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,589 ratings — published 2007
Conquistadors of the Useless (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,624 ratings — published 1961
Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,565 ratings — published 1999
The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo Ascent (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,060 ratings — published 1989
The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration)
by (shelved 45 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,705 ratings — published 1994
Everest: The West Ridge (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 698 ratings — published 1966
K2: Triumph and Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,193 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 — 1,603 ratings — published 1955
This Game of Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,481 ratings — published 1993
Minus 148 Degrees: The First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,218 ratings — published 1969
The Naked Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 876 ratings — published 2002
The Death Zone (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.10 — 644 ratings — published 1997
Alone on the Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.88 — 14,187 ratings — published 2015
Dark Shadows Falling (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.82 — 843 ratings — published 1997
Beyond the Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,217 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 — 899 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 — 451 ratings — published 2000
The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,975 ratings — published
“Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are nought without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.”
― Scrambles Amongst the Alps
― Scrambles Amongst the Alps
“To think that there's any mountain too high for me to CLIMB would be the universe playing mind games with me and I'm constantly positioning my mind to not fall for such a trick.”
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alpinism and mountain-climbing
