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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.26 — 586,935 ratings — published 1997
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.23 — 66,459 ratings — published 1988
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
by (shelved 78 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,826 ratings — published 1951
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.05 — 26,340 ratings — published 1990
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.99 — 18,878 ratings — published 1997
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,952 ratings — published 2003
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.22 — 12,071 ratings — published 2012
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,241 ratings — published 2010
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,722 ratings — published 2006
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,924 ratings — published 2011
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,157 ratings — published 2009
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,509 ratings — published 2008
The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,616 ratings — published 1959
Le otto montagne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.11 — 59,959 ratings — published 2016
The Snow Leopard (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.06 — 21,431 ratings — published 1978
The Living Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,024 ratings — published 1977
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.59 — 4,003 ratings — published 1960
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.07 — 456,365 ratings — published 1998
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.98 — 27,330 ratings — published 2013
Freedom Climbers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.31 — 967 ratings — published 2011
Savage Summit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,277 ratings — published 2005
Seven Years in Tibet (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.10 — 27,185 ratings — published 1953
Annapurna: A Woman's Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,173 ratings — published 1980
TOPR. Żeby inni mogli przeżyć (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,701 ratings — published 2018
Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,445 ratings — published 2014
Conquistadors of the Useless (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,652 ratings — published 1961
High Crimes: the Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,592 ratings — published 2008
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.61 — 8,474 ratings — published 2000
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,219,784 ratings — published 1996
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.07 — 885,442 ratings — published 2012
Kukuczka. Opowieść o najsłynniejszym polskim himalaiście (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,520 ratings — published 2016
Art of Freedom: The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.23 — 993 ratings — published 2017
The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.46 — 11,126 ratings — published 2017
Alone on the Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.88 — 14,448 ratings — published 2015
The Beckoning Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,787 ratings — published 2002
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,698 ratings — published 2021
The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration)
by (shelved 20 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,733 ratings — published 1994
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.14 — 83,185 ratings — published 1974
Wanda. Opowieść o sile życia i śmierci. Historia Wandy Rutkiewicz (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,157 ratings — published 2017
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,771 ratings — published 1999
Czapkins. Prawdziwa historia Tomka Mackiewicza (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.24 — 812 ratings — published 2019
High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,626 ratings — published 1955
The Naked Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.13 — 893 ratings — published 2002
K2 the Savage Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,463 ratings — published 1954
Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,835 ratings — published 2001
Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,057 ratings — published
Broad Peak. Niebo i piekło (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.03 — 859 ratings — published 2014
Thin Air: A Ghost Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.82 — 10,447 ratings — published 2016
Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.37 — 27,733 ratings — published 2006
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.95 — 7,194 ratings — published 1958
“People ask me, 'What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?' and my answer must at once be, 'It is of no use.'There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. Oh, we may learn a little about the behaviour of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. But otherwise nothing will come of it. We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron... If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to live. That is what life means and what life is for.”
― Climbing Everest: The Complete Writings of George Mallory
― Climbing Everest: The Complete Writings of George Mallory
“The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no "meaning," they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day.”
― The Snow Leopard
― The Snow Leopard
