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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 — 560,294 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 — 63,951 ratings — published 1988
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.99 — 18,179 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 — 10,437 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 — 11,268 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
Annapurna: A Woman's Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,033 ratings — published 1980
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
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 — 5,407 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 — 25,959 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 — 1,648 ratings — published 1994
Conquistadors of the Useless (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,550 ratings — published 1961
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
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 37 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
“The steeper the trail, the nearer we’re to the top.”
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“I had really learned that you can’t fall off a mountain. Whether you *can* fall off a mountain or not I don’t know, but I had learned that you can’t. That was the way it struck me.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
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alpinism and mountain-climbing
