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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.27 — 592,417 ratings — published 1997
Alone on the Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.88 — 14,602 ratings — published 2015
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.23 — 66,983 ratings — published 1988
The Rock Warrior's Way: Mental Training for Climbers (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,431 ratings — published 2003
9 Out of 10 Climbers Make the Same Mistakes: Navigation Through the Maze of Advice for the Self-coached Climber (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,236 ratings — published 2009
The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.46 — 11,256 ratings — published 2017
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.05 — 26,518 ratings — published 1990
Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,520 ratings — published 2002
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.60 — 4,011 ratings — published 1960
Training for Climbing: The Definitive Guide to Improving Your Climbing Performance (How to Climb Series)
by (shelved 81 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.19 — 691 ratings — published 1997
Self-Coached Climber (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.22 — 567 ratings — published
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.99 — 19,027 ratings — published 1997
Climbing Anchors (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.36 — 416 ratings — published 1993
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
by (shelved 57 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,897 ratings — published 1951
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,795 ratings — published 2006
Vertical Mind: Psychological Approaches for Optimal Rock Climbing (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.96 — 366 ratings — published 2014
The Rock Climber's Training Manual | A Guide to Continuous Improvement (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.48 — 295 ratings — published 2014
The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,652 ratings — published 1959
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,220 ratings — published 2009
The Beckoning Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,800 ratings — published 2002
Training for the New Alpinism: A Manual for the Climber as Athlete (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.53 — 1,433 ratings — published 2014
Make or Break: Don't Let Climbing Injuries Dictate Your Success (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.48 — 208 ratings — published 2015
The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,566 ratings — published 2019
Espresso Lessons From The Rock Warrior's Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.21 — 296 ratings — published 2009
How To Climb 5.12 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.74 — 322 ratings — published 1994
Conquistadors of the Useless (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,685 ratings — published 1961
Psychovertical (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.28 — 936 ratings — published 2008
Rock Climbing Technique: The Practical Guide to Movement Mastery (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.44 — 272 ratings — published
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,079 ratings — published 2003
High Infatuation: A Climber's Guide to Love and Gravity (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,122 ratings — published 2007
Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,183 ratings — published 2001
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,556 ratings — published 2008
Mastermind: Mental Training for Climbers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.23 — 181 ratings — published
A Light through the Cracks: A Climber's Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,244 ratings — published 2024
How to Rock Climb! (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.94 — 284 ratings — published 1989
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.22 — 12,216 ratings — published 2012
Better Bouldering (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.94 — 185 ratings — published 1997
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,341 ratings — published 2010
Rock Climbing Anchors: A Comprehensive Guide (The Mountaineers Outdoor Experts Series)
by (shelved 25 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.32 — 231 ratings — published 2006
The Climbing Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.42 — 244 ratings — published 2018
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.61 — 8,547 ratings — published 2000
Climbing Self Rescue: Improvising Solutions for Serious Situations (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.24 — 117 ratings — published 2006
Conditioning for Climbers: The Complete Exercise Guide (How To Climb Series)
by (shelved 23 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.82 — 186 ratings — published 2008
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,780 ratings — published 1999
Rock Climbing: Mastering Basic Skills (Mountaineers Outdoor Expert)
by (shelved 23 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.02 — 260 ratings — published 2004
The Tower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.31 — 930 ratings — published 2014
This Game of Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,499 ratings — published 1993
Annapurna: A Woman's Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,199 ratings — published 1980
Beastmaking: A fingers-first approach to becoming a better climber (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.38 — 421 ratings — published
Crack Climbing: The Definitive Guide (Mountaineers Outdoor Expert)
by (shelved 21 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.74 — 84 ratings — published
“So he bought tickets to the Greyhound and they climbed, painfully, inch by inch and with the knowledge that, once they reached the top, there would be one breath-taking moment when the car would tip precariously into space, over an incline six stories steep and then plunge, like a plunging plane. She buried her head against him, fearing to look at the park spread below. He forced himself to look: thousands of little people and hundreds of bright little stands, and over it all the coal-smoke pall of the river factories and railroad yards. He saw in that moment the whole dim-lit city on the last night of summer; the troubled streets that led to the abandoned beaches, the for-rent signs above overnight hotels and furnished basement rooms, moving trolleys and rising bridges: the cagework city, beneath a coalsmoke sky.”
― Never Come Morning
― Never Come Morning
“I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.”
― Into the Wild
― Into the Wild
