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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.27 — 591,636 ratings — published 1997
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.23 — 66,893 ratings — published 1988
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
by (shelved 79 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,885 ratings — published 1951
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.05 — 26,499 ratings — published 1990
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.99 — 18,999 ratings — published 1997
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,062 ratings — published 2003
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.22 — 12,189 ratings — published 2012
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,321 ratings — published 2010
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,785 ratings — published 2006
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,951 ratings — published 2011
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,213 ratings — published 2009
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,551 ratings — published 2008
The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,646 ratings — published 1959
Le otto montagne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.11 — 61,037 ratings — published 2016
The Snow Leopard (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.06 — 21,639 ratings — published 1978
The Living Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,226 ratings — published 1977
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.60 — 4,010 ratings — published 1960
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.07 — 459,216 ratings — published 1998
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.98 — 27,505 ratings — published 2013
Freedom Climbers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.31 — 979 ratings — published 2011
Savage Summit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,280 ratings — published 2005
Seven Years in Tibet (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.10 — 27,368 ratings — published 1953
Annapurna: A Woman's Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,198 ratings — published 1980
TOPR. Żeby inni mogli przeżyć (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,724 ratings — published 2018
Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,486 ratings — published 2014
Conquistadors of the Useless (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,680 ratings — published 1961
High Crimes: the Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,613 ratings — published 2008
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.61 — 8,532 ratings — published 2000
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,226,644 ratings — published 1996
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.07 — 889,709 ratings — published 2012
Art of Freedom: The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,007 ratings — published 2017
The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.46 — 11,242 ratings — published 2017
Alone on the Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.88 — 14,584 ratings — published 2015
Kukuczka. Opowieść o najsłynniejszym polskim himalaiście (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,538 ratings — published 2016
The Beckoning Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,796 ratings — published 2002
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,741 ratings — published 2021
The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration)
by (shelved 20 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,753 ratings — published 1994
Wanda. Opowieść o sile życia i śmierci. Historia Wandy Rutkiewicz (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,168 ratings — published 2017
K2 the Savage Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,475 ratings — published 1954
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,778 ratings — published 1999
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.14 — 83,463 ratings — published 1974
Czapkins. Prawdziwa historia Tomka Mackiewicza (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.24 — 815 ratings — published 2019
High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,641 ratings — published 1955
The Naked Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.13 — 907 ratings — published 2002
Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,840 ratings — published 2001
Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,062 ratings — published
Broad Peak. Niebo i piekło (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.02 — 884 ratings — published 2014
Thin Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.81 — 10,588 ratings — published 2016
Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.38 — 27,952 ratings — published 2006
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.95 — 7,254 ratings — published 1958
“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
― The Land of Heart's Desire
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
― The Land of Heart's Desire
“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!”
― The Mountains of California
― The Mountains of California
