Mountains


Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger
Le otto montagne
The Snow Leopard
Corrag by Susan  FletcherGlencoe by John PrebbleTreachery by Night by Ann RuffellThe Ghosts of Glencoe by Mollie HunterGlencoe by Charlotte Lyne
Glencoe
22 books — 4 voters

Cold Mountain by Charles FrazierChristy by Catherine MarshallProdigal Summer by Barbara KingsolverA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonThe Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Best Books Set in Appalachia
795 books — 840 voters

Highway 17 by Richard A. BealA Dream Called Home by Reyna GrandeAn Unnatural History of UCSC by Jeff ArnettGhost Towns of the Santa Cruz Mountains by John V. YoungContinental Drift by James D. Houston
Santa Cruz, California
38 books — 11 voters
The Mountains of California by John MuirDer Zauberberg by Thomas MannArt of the Mountain Banjo by Art RosenbaumThe Mountain Between Us by Charles MartinChasing Justice by Kathleen  Donnelly
Best Mountain Books
42 books — 7 voters

Jay Woodman
The world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The world is a bright mosaic where we learn like children to see, where our little blurry eyes strive greedily to take in as much light and love and colour and detail as they can. The world is a coaxing whisper when the wind lips the trees, when the sea licks the shore, when animals burrow into earth and people look up at the sympathetic stars. The world is an admonishing roar when gales chase rainclouds over the plains ...more
Jay Woodman, SPAN

Brian  Andreas
I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.
Brian Andreas, Story People

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