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Mountaineering Books
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 470 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 569,946 ratings — published 1997
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.23 — 64,762 ratings — published 1988
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.99 — 18,393 ratings — published 1997
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,725 ratings — published 1990
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 169 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,480 ratings — published 2006
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
by (shelved 166 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,575 ratings — published 1951
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.22 — 11,537 ratings — published 2012
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,961 ratings — published 2009
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,313 ratings — published 2008
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,863 ratings — published 2010
The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,512 ratings — published 1959
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,784 ratings — published 2011
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.61 — 8,224 ratings — published 2000
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.59 — 3,982 ratings — published 1960
Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,284 ratings — published 2014
Savage Summit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,255 ratings — published 2005
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,735 ratings — published 1999
K2 the Savage Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,399 ratings — published 1954
Annapurna: A Woman's Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,079 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 — 3,521 ratings — published 2008
Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,788 ratings — published 2001
Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,040 ratings — published
The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,394 ratings — published 2011
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,601 ratings — published 2003
Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,914 ratings — published 2007
The Beckoning Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,721 ratings — published 2002
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.98 — 26,442 ratings — published 2013
The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,479 ratings — published 1999
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,482 ratings — published 2021
The Ghosts of K2: The Epic Saga of the First Ascent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,110 ratings — published 2015
The Mountain: My Time on Everest (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,078 ratings — published 2013
Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,576 ratings — published 2007
Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,559 ratings — published 1999
The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration)
by (shelved 46 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,675 ratings — published 1994
Conquistadors of the Useless (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,583 ratings — published 1961
The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo Ascent (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,041 ratings — published 1989
K2: Triumph and Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,187 ratings — published 1987
Everest: The West Ridge (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 678 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 — 1,586 ratings — published 1955
Minus 148 Degrees: The First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,173 ratings — published 1969
This Game of Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,467 ratings — published 1993
The Death Zone (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.10 — 640 ratings — published 1997
Climbing High: A Woman's Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy – The Honest Personal Memoir of Lene Gammelgaard's 1996 Summit and Storm (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.49 — 887 ratings — published 1999
True Summit: What Really Happened on the Legendary Ascent on Annapurna (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.86 — 446 ratings — published 2000
The Naked Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 854 ratings — published 2002
Dark Shadows Falling (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.82 — 833 ratings — published 1997
Beyond the Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,196 ratings — published 2009
The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,956 ratings — published
Mountain Madness: Scott Fischer, Mount Everest & a Life Lived on High (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 657 ratings — published 2008
Alone on the Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as mountaineering)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,841 ratings — published 2015
“I like the mountains because they make me feel small,' Jeff says. 'They help me sort out what's important in life.”
― Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled--and Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High
― Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled--and Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High
“No single mountain ever came to me...
so I always go to them”
―
so I always go to them”
―
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alpinism and mountain-climbing
