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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.27 — 595,227 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 — 67,266 ratings — published 1988
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
by (shelved 79 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,950 ratings — published 1951
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.05 — 26,617 ratings — published 1990
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.00 — 19,115 ratings — published 1997
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,139 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 — 12,299 ratings — published 2012
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,395 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 — 11,834 ratings — published 2006
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,987 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 — 7,247 ratings — published 2009
Le otto montagne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.11 — 61,710 ratings — published 2016
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,587 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 — 4,677 ratings — published 1959
The Living Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.25 — 10,393 ratings — published 1977
The Snow Leopard (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.06 — 21,774 ratings — published 1978
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.60 — 4,013 ratings — published 1960
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.07 — 461,136 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 — 27,677 ratings — published 2013
Freedom Climbers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.31 — 983 ratings — published 2011
Savage Summit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,287 ratings — published 2005
Seven Years in Tibet (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.10 — 27,525 ratings — published 1953
Annapurna: A Woman's Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,219 ratings — published 1980
TOPR. Żeby inni mogli przeżyć (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,743 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 — 4,517 ratings — published 2014
Conquistadors of the Useless (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,702 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 — 3,626 ratings — published 2008
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.61 — 8,581 ratings — published 2000
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,231,428 ratings — published 1996
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.07 — 894,967 ratings — published 2012
Art of Freedom: The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,012 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 — 11,312 ratings — published 2017
Alone on the Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.88 — 14,678 ratings — published 2015
Kukuczka. Opowieść o najsłynniejszym polskim himalaiście (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,548 ratings — published 2016
The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration)
by (shelved 21 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,764 ratings — published 1994
The Beckoning Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,809 ratings — published 2002
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,781 ratings — published 2021
Wanda. Opowieść o sile życia i śmierci. Historia Wandy Rutkiewicz (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,179 ratings — published 2017
K2 the Savage Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,475 ratings — published 1954
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,784 ratings — published 1999
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.14 — 83,676 ratings — published 1974
Czapkins. Prawdziwa historia Tomka Mackiewicza (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.24 — 818 ratings — published 2019
Broad Peak. Niebo i piekło (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.02 — 896 ratings — published 2014
High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,650 ratings — published 1955
The Naked Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.13 — 915 ratings — published 2002
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 — 2,850 ratings — published 2001
Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,066 ratings — published
Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.38 — 28,131 ratings — published 2006
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.95 — 7,325 ratings — published 1958
Heidi (Heidi, #1-2)
by (shelved 16 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.05 — 216,194 ratings — published 1880
“I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.”
― Story People
― Story People
“Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more.”
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