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Mountaineering Books
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 470 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 582,725 ratings — published 1997
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 257 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.23 — 66,067 ratings — published 1988
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.99 — 18,774 ratings — published 1997
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,195 ratings — published 1990
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,666 ratings — published 2006
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
by (shelved 169 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,766 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 — 11,958 ratings — published 2012
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 154 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,109 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 — 6,466 ratings — published 2008
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,166 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 — 4,588 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 — 4,895 ratings — published 2011
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.61 — 8,423 ratings — published 2000
Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,402 ratings — published 2014
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.59 — 3,998 ratings — published 1960
Savage Summit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,273 ratings — published 2005
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,760 ratings — published 1999
K2 the Savage Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,454 ratings — published 1954
Annapurna: A Woman's Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,150 ratings — published 1980
High Crimes: the Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,566 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 — 2,824 ratings — published 2001
Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,055 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 4.03 — 1,420 ratings — published 2011
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,869 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 3.94 — 1,944 ratings — published 2007
The Beckoning Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,765 ratings — published 2002
The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,498 ratings — published 1999
The Ghosts of K2: The Epic Saga of the First Ascent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,173 ratings — published 2015
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.98 — 27,123 ratings — published 2013
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,654 ratings — published 2021
The Mountain: My Time on Everest (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,100 ratings — published 2013
Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,596 ratings — published 2007
Conquistadors of the Useless (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,641 ratings — published 1961
The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration)
by (shelved 47 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,713 ratings — published 1994
The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo Ascent (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,096 ratings — published 1989
Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,569 ratings — published 1999
Everest: The West Ridge (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 702 ratings — published 1966
K2: Triumph and Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 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 — 1,612 ratings — published 1955
Minus 148 Degrees: The First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,245 ratings — published 1969
This Game of Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,492 ratings — published 1993
The Naked Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 883 ratings — published 2002
The Death Zone (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.10 — 647 ratings — published 1997
Alone on the Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.88 — 14,325 ratings — published 2015
Dark Shadows Falling (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.83 — 847 ratings — published 1997
Beyond the Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,228 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 — 904 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
The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,984 ratings — published
“I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.”
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“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
The following shelves are listed as duplicates of this shelf:
alpinism and mountain-climbing
