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The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering
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Death in the Great Smoky Mountains: Stories of Accidents and Foolhardiness in the Most Popular Park
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The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him
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To the Greatest Heights: Facing Danger, Finding Humility, and Climbing a Mountain of Truth
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The World Beneath Their Feet: Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas
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Into the Carpathians: A Journey Through the Heart and History of Central and Eastern Europe (Part 1: The Eastern Mountains)
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End of the Rope: Mountains, Marriage, and Motherhood
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Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Essays
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No Friends but the Mountains: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands
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Alpine Rising: Sherpas, Baltis, and the Triumph of Local Climbers in the Greater Ranges
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Take the Lead: Hanging On, Letting Go, and Conquering Life's Hardest Climbs
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Appalachia on Our Mind: The Southern Mountains and Mountaineers in the American Consciousness, 1870-1920
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The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America
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Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music
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Laughter in Appalachia: A Festival of Southern Mountain Humor
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Flatlanders and Ridgerunners: Folktales from the Mountains of Northern Pennsylvania
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Unsolved Disappearances in the Great Smoky Mountains
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Popular History of Western North Carolina, A: Mountains, Heroes & Hootnoggers
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Tumult on the Mountains: Lumbering in West Virginia 1770-1920
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The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South
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48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains
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Burnt Mountain
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Mountain Passages: Natural and Cultural History of Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains
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Storm in the Mountains: A Case Study of Censorship, Conflict, and Consciousness
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Thunder on the Mountain: Death at Massey and the Dirty Secrets Behind Big Coal
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Chasing Plants: Journeys with a Botanist through Rainforests, Swamps, and Mountains
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Mountain Folk Remedies: The Foxfire Americana Library (9)
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Beyond the Mountains: Commodifying Appalachian Environments
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Bad Naturalist: One Woman’s Ecological Education on a Wild Virginia Mountaintop
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Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak
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Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
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High: A Journey Across the Himalaya, Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal, and China
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Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas
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Himalaya Bound: One Family's Quest to Save their Animals—And an Ancient Way of Life
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White Mountain: A Cultural Adventure Through the Himalayas
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The Hunt for Mount Everest
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The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest
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The Next Everest
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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
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The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond
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Everything Left to Remember: My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey Through the Rocky Mountains
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Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire
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Dreaming of Wolves: Adventures in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania
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