Himalayas


The Snow Leopard
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
Seven Years in Tibet
The Inheritance of Loss
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
Himalaya
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
Høyt: En reise i Himalaya
Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan
A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonBrokeback Mountain by Annie ProulxThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerGo Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Mountains
742 books — 115 voters
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze ChooThe Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley RobinsonNeuromancer by William GibsonAcross the Nightingale Floor by Lian HearnBridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
SF & F Atlas - Asia
118 books — 22 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
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienBanner in the Sky by James Ramsey UllmanThe Mountain of Adventure by Enid BlytonMystery of the Fleeing Girl by Showell StylesPeril in the Pennines by Winifred Finlay
Mountaineering in Juvenile Fiction
66 books — 6 voters

Married to Bhutan by Linda LeamingBeyond the Sky and the Earth by Jamie ZeppaRadio Shangri-La by Lisa NapoliSamu-Shamu by Suzie Sims-FletcherA Painter's Year in the Forests of Bhutan by A.K. Hellum
Books Set in Bhutan
10 books — 13 voters
Lost Horizon by James HiltonBiggles Hits the Trail by W.E. JohnsLast Refuge by Elizabeth Ann ScarboroughMessenger by Frank DeMarcoEscape From Kathmandu by Kim Stanley Robinson
Books including Shangri-la
11 books — 5 voters

Bhuwan Thapaliya
I would climb the mountains frequently to tune in my nature with theirs.
Bhuwan Thapaliya

Jane Wilson-Howarth
Ready?’ Bim and James nodded and clung on to the flimsy bamboo basketwork that formed the sides of the tray. I pushed them over the edge. They sped away, rattling down. The little basket went hurtling away with James shrieking like a crazed jackal. They reached the lowest point on the cable and continued a little way up on the other side. The momentum didn’t help them much though. Soon they had stopped and Bim was standing with both her hands on the cable. If you lost balance and grabbed the cab ...more
Jane Wilson-Howarth, Himalayan Heist: an Alex and James wildlife adventure in Nepal

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