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Mountaineering Books
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 461 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 560,267 ratings — published 1997
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.23 — 63,946 ratings — published 1988
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.99 — 18,176 ratings — published 1997
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,365 ratings — published 1990
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
by (shelved 165 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,436 ratings — published 1951
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,334 ratings — published 2006
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 11,267 ratings — published 2012
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,882 ratings — published 2009
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,222 ratings — published 2008
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,704 ratings — published 2010
The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,467 ratings — published 1959
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,723 ratings — published 2011
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.61 — 8,072 ratings — published 2000
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.59 — 3,955 ratings — published 1960
Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,200 ratings — published 2014
Savage Summit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,247 ratings — published 2005
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,715 ratings — published 1999
K2 the Savage Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,386 ratings — published 1954
High Crimes: the Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,466 ratings — published 2008
Annapurna: A Woman's Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,033 ratings — published 1980
Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,751 ratings — published 2001
Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,027 ratings — published
The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,371 ratings — published 2011
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,405 ratings — published 2003
Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,901 ratings — published 2007
The Beckoning Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,699 ratings — published 2002
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.99 — 25,957 ratings — published 2013
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,337 ratings — published 2021
The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,461 ratings — published 1999
The Ghosts of K2: The Epic Saga of the First Ascent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,078 ratings — published 2015
The Mountain: My Time on Everest (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,059 ratings — published 2013
Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,572 ratings — published 2007
The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration)
by (shelved 45 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,647 ratings — published 1994
Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,553 ratings — published 1999
The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo Ascent (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,019 ratings — published 1989
Conquistadors of the Useless (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,550 ratings — published 1961
K2: Triumph and Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,178 ratings — published 1987
Everest: The West Ridge (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.20 — 664 ratings — published 1966
High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,557 ratings — published 1955
This Game of Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,453 ratings — published 1993
Minus 148 Degrees: The First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,108 ratings — published 1969
The Death Zone (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 635 ratings — published 1997
Climbing High: A Woman's Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.49 — 878 ratings — published 1999
The Naked Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 837 ratings — published 2002
Dark Shadows Falling (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.83 — 825 ratings — published 1997
Beyond the Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,171 ratings — published 2009
True Summit: What Really Happened on the Legendary Ascent on Annapurna (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.86 — 441 ratings — published 2000
Mountain Madness: Scott Fischer, Mount Everest & a Life Lived on High (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 653 ratings — published 2008
Alone on the Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,590 ratings — published 2015
One Mountain Thousand Summits: The Untold Story Tragedy and True Heroism on K2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.65 — 582 ratings — published 2010
“...just the bare bones of a name, all rock and ice and storm and abyss. It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars. It has the nakedness of the world before the first man – or of the cindered planet after the last”
― Secret Tibet
― Secret Tibet
“Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.”
― Bringing Progress to Paradise: What I Got from Giving to a Mountain Village in Nepal
― Bringing Progress to Paradise: What I Got from Giving to a Mountain Village in Nepal
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alpinism and mountain-climbing
