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Mountaineering Books
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 464 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 564,187 ratings — published 1997
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.23 — 64,301 ratings — published 1988
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.99 — 18,267 ratings — published 1997
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,521 ratings — published 1990
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,392 ratings — published 2006
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
by (shelved 167 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,509 ratings — published 1951
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 155 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 11,377 ratings — published 2012
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,918 ratings — published 2009
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,271 ratings — published 2008
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,775 ratings — published 2010
The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,490 ratings — published 1959
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,743 ratings — published 2011
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.61 — 8,140 ratings — published 2000
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.59 — 3,967 ratings — published 1960
Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,242 ratings — published 2014
Savage Summit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,244 ratings — published 2005
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,724 ratings — published 1999
K2 the Savage Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,386 ratings — published 1954
Annapurna: A Woman's Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,055 ratings — published 1980
High Crimes: the Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,493 ratings — published 2008
Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,034 ratings — published
Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,763 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 — 1,378 ratings — published 2011
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,504 ratings — published 2003
The Beckoning Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,708 ratings — published 2002
Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,908 ratings — published 2007
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.98 — 26,127 ratings — published 2013
The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,471 ratings — published 1999
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,413 ratings — published 2021
The Ghosts of K2: The Epic Saga of the First Ascent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,091 ratings — published 2015
The Mountain: My Time on Everest (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,069 ratings — published 2013
Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,571 ratings — published 2007
Conquistadors of the Useless (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,565 ratings — published 1961
Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,552 ratings — published 1999
The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration)
by (shelved 45 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,662 ratings — published 1994
The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo Ascent (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,030 ratings — published 1989
K2: Triumph and Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,182 ratings — published 1987
Everest: The West Ridge (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 672 ratings — published 1966
High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,571 ratings — published 1955
This Game of Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,457 ratings — published 1993
Minus 148 Degrees: The First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,134 ratings — published 1969
The Death Zone (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.10 — 638 ratings — published 1997
Dark Shadows Falling (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.82 — 827 ratings — published 1997
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 32 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.49 — 883 ratings — published 1999
True Summit: What Really Happened on the Legendary Ascent on Annapurna (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.86 — 442 ratings — published 2000
The Naked Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 846 ratings — published 2002
Beyond the Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,183 ratings — published 2009
The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,935 ratings — published
Mountain Madness: Scott Fischer, Mount Everest & a Life Lived on High (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 653 ratings — published 2008
Alone on the Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,693 ratings — published 2015
“Silent and awkward types yearn for the mountains.”
― The Climber, Vol. 1
― The Climber, Vol. 1
“go on up into the mountains, no one's going to take care of you”
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alpinism and mountain-climbing
