Climbing

Climbing is the activity of using one's hands, feet, or any other part of the body to ascend a steep object. It is done recreationally, competitively, in trades that rely on it, and in emergency rescue and military operations. It is done indoors and out, on natural and man-made structures. ...more

The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within
Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali
The Moth and the Mountain
A Wild Idea
Life Lived Wild:  Adventures at the Edge of the Map
A Light through the Cracks: A Climber's Story
The Next Everest
Dixon, Descending
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest
The World Beneath Their Feet: Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas
How to Solve a Problem: The Rise (and Falls) of a Rock-Climbing Champion
Alpine Rising: Sherpas, Baltis, and the Triumph of Local Climbers in the Greater Ranges
Shook: An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest's Deadliest Day
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Alone on the Wall
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
The Rock Warrior's Way: Mental Training for Climbers
The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits
9 Out of 10 Climbers Make the Same Mistakes: Navigation Through the Maze of Advice for the Self-coached Climber
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills
Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
Training for Climbing: The Definitive Guide to Improving Your Climbing Performance (How to Climb Series)
Self-Coached Climber
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
Climbing Anchors
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian JungerA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Vicarious Thrills
388 books — 419 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Trigger by Tim ButcherEdge of the Map by Johanna GartonBy Any Means by Charley BoormanTouching the Void by Joe Simpson
Adventure Biographies
38 books — 25 voters
Wild by Cheryl StrayedA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonAnd the Mountains Echoed by Khaled HosseiniScene of the Climb by Kate E. Dyer-SeeleyInto Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Mountains Are Calling...
171 books — 13 voters


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George Mallory
How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . . Is this the summit, crowning the day? How cool and quiet! We're not exultant; but delighted, joyful; soberly astonished. . . Have we vanquished an enemy? None but ourselves. Have we gained success? That word means nothing here. Have we won a kingdom? No. . . and yes. We have achieved an ultimate satisfaction ...more
George Mallory, Climbing Everest: The Complete Writings of George Mallory

By 1987 I had a stack of cartoons. That summer, stormbound on Mount Sir Francis Drake, while bailing the tent like it was a canoe shot by a cannon, I told my friend Dave Harris about the work. David was a graphic designer and his wife sold printing for a large print shop. “Do a comic book!” he said. So, with ginormous help from the both of them, I did. Three hundred copies of Lies and slander from a demented little corner of the coast range were printed up and sold for five bucks each. And then, ...more
Tami Knight, Secret Plans: Vol. III: 40+ Years of Cartoons for Climbers

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