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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.26 — 558,931 ratings — published 1997
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.23 — 63,846 ratings — published 1988
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
by (shelved 78 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,412 ratings — published 1951
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,325 ratings — published 1990
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.99 — 18,132 ratings — published 1997
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,380 ratings — published 2003
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,671 ratings — published 2010
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.22 — 11,223 ratings — published 2012
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,321 ratings — published 2006
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,717 ratings — published 2011
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,866 ratings — published 2009
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,206 ratings — published 2008
The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,463 ratings — published 1959
Le otto montagne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.11 — 54,826 ratings — published 2016
The Snow Leopard (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,133 ratings — published 1978
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.59 — 3,950 ratings — published 1960
The Living Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.28 — 8,781 ratings — published 1977
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.07 — 440,833 ratings — published 1998
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.99 — 25,889 ratings — published 2013
Freedom Climbers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.31 — 930 ratings — published 2011
Annapurna: A Woman's Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,026 ratings — published 1980
Savage Summit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,246 ratings — published 2005
Seven Years in Tibet (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.10 — 26,280 ratings — published 1953
Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,186 ratings — published 2014
TOPR. Żeby inni mogli przeżyć (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,539 ratings — published 2018
Conquistadors of the Useless (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,545 ratings — published 1961
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.07 — 858,703 ratings — published 2012
High Crimes: the Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,459 ratings — published 2008
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,178,097 ratings — published 1996
Alone on the Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,552 ratings — published 2015
Kukuczka. Opowieść o najsłynniejszym polskim himalaiście (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,423 ratings — published 2016
The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.46 — 10,357 ratings — published 2017
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.61 — 8,054 ratings — published 2000
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.14 — 81,396 ratings — published 1974
The Beckoning Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,696 ratings — published 2002
Art of Freedom: The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.23 — 952 ratings — published 2017
The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration)
by (shelved 19 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,641 ratings — published 1994
Wanda. Opowieść o sile życia i śmierci. Historia Wandy Rutkiewicz (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,071 ratings — published 2017
Broad Peak. Niebo i piekło (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.02 — 797 ratings — published 2014
High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,556 ratings — published 1955
The Naked Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.13 — 835 ratings — published 2002
K2 the Savage Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,385 ratings — published 1954
Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,745 ratings — published 2001
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,714 ratings — published 1999
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,323 ratings — published 2021
Czapkins. Prawdziwa historia Tomka Mackiewicza (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.23 — 772 ratings — published 2019
Spod zamarzniętych powiek (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,324 ratings — published 2017
Thin Air: A Ghost Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as mountains)
avg rating 3.82 — 9,359 ratings — published 2016
Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,027 ratings — published
The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as mountains)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,460 ratings — published 1999
“The world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The world is a bright mosaic where we learn like children to see, where our little blurry eyes strive greedily to take in as much light and love and colour and detail as they can.
The world is a coaxing whisper when the wind lips the trees, when the sea licks the shore, when animals burrow into earth and people look up at the sympathetic stars. The world is an admonishing roar when gales chase rainclouds over the plains and whip up ocean waves, when people crowd into cities or intrude into dazzling jungles.
What right have we to carry our desperate mouths up mountains or into deserts? Do we want to taste rock and sand or do we expect to make impossible poems from space and silence? The vastness at least reminds us how tiny we are, and how much we don't yet understand. We are mere babes in the universe, all brothers and sisters in the nursery together. We had better learn to play nicely before we're allowed out..... And we want to go out, don't we? ..... Into the distant humming welcoming darkness.”
― SPAN
The world is a coaxing whisper when the wind lips the trees, when the sea licks the shore, when animals burrow into earth and people look up at the sympathetic stars. The world is an admonishing roar when gales chase rainclouds over the plains and whip up ocean waves, when people crowd into cities or intrude into dazzling jungles.
What right have we to carry our desperate mouths up mountains or into deserts? Do we want to taste rock and sand or do we expect to make impossible poems from space and silence? The vastness at least reminds us how tiny we are, and how much we don't yet understand. We are mere babes in the universe, all brothers and sisters in the nursery together. We had better learn to play nicely before we're allowed out..... And we want to go out, don't we? ..... Into the distant humming welcoming darkness.”
― SPAN
“The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no "meaning," they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day.”
― The Snow Leopard
― The Snow Leopard
