Mountaineering

The term mountaineering describes the sport of mountain climbing, including ski mountaineering. Hiking in the mountains can also be a simple form of mountaineering when it involves scrambling, or short stretches of the more basic grades of rock climbing, as well as crossing glaciers.

Also known as Mountain Climbing and Alpinism

La felicità del lupo
One Wrong Step
A Light through the Cracks: A Climber's Story
Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest
In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage
The Next Everest
Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas
Life Lived Wild:  Adventures at the Edge of the Map
Everest 1922: The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the World's Highest Mountain
Dixon, Descending
Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains
Fallen: George Mallory and the Tragic 1924 Everest Expedition
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2
The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills
The Mountains of My Life by Walter BonattiThe White Spider by Heinrich HarrerEdge of the Map by Johanna GartonKilimanjaro and Beyond by Barry FinlayAnnapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak by Maurice Herzog
Mountaineering
22 books — 27 voters
Cho Oyu  by Herbert TichyBroad Peak by Richard SaleThe Ghosts of K2 by Mick ConefreyKangchenjunga The Untrodden Peak by Charles EvansNanga Parbat by Karl M. Herrligkoffer
Himalayan First Ascents (English)
14 books — 2 voters

Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainBorn to Run by Christopher McDougallOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
#GetOutside
240 books — 67 voters

Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonK2 by Ed ViestursEiger Dreams by Jon Krakauer
Worshipping Mountains
167 books — 67 voters
輝耀之山:兩位如風少年的絕壁長征 by Peter Boardman我的山間初夏 by John Muir攀向自由:波蘭冰峰戰士們的一頁鐵血史詩 by Bernadette McDonald靈魂的征途:安娜普納南壁 by Chris Bonington攀登的奧義:從馬洛里、尼采到齊美爾的歐洲山岳思想選粹 by 詹偉雄
「Meters」書系
10 books — 1 voter


...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.
Jonathan Waterman

Bhuwan Thapaliya
Even Mount Everest cannot replicate the mountains of the mind. They’re very tricky to negotiate and so tough to conquer.
Bhuwan Thapaliya

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