14 Top travel books like The Endless Knot: K2 Mountain of Dreams and Destiny by Kurt Diemberger

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The Endless Knot: K2 Mountain of Dreams and Destiny

By: Kurt Diemberger

4.16

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A monumental book … I defy anyone to read it and remain unmoved.’ Stephen Venables, Alpine Journal…

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1. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

By: Joe Simpson

4.23

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvi… read more

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  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • sports
"Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in?"

-Joe Simpson, Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

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2. My Vertical World: Climbing the 8000-Metre Peaks

By: Jerzy Kukuczka , Andrew Wielochowski

3.81

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Autobiography of a Polish climber whose quiet determination and singular achievements ranked him am… read more

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  • travel
  • mountaineering
  • nonfiction
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3. The Mountains of My Life

By: Walter Bonatti

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Walter Bonatti's The Mountains of My Life book and Kurt Diemberger's The Endless Knot: K2 Mountain of Dreams and Destiny

  • travel
  • mountaineering
  • nonfiction

4. Wind, Sand and Stars

By: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Lewis Galantière

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Academie Francaise, Wind, Sand and Stars captures the grandeur, … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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5. Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest

By: Beck Weathers , Stephen G. Michaud

4.82

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

As featured in the upcoming motion picture Everest,starring Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes,… read more

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  • travel
  • mountaineering
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

6. The Everest Politics Show: Sorrow and Strife on the World's Highest Mountain

By: Mark Horrell

4.20

Format: 288 pages, ebook

In April 2014 Mark Horrell went on a mountaineering expedition to Nepal, hoping to climb Lhotse, th… read more

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  • mountaineering
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7. Conquistadors Of The Useless

By: Lionel Terray

3.53

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

An engagingly written portrait of the times and climbs of premier French Mountainerer, Lionel Terra… read more

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  • travel
  • mountaineering
  • nonfiction
Cover of A Day to Die For: 1996: Everest's Worst Disaster - One Survivor's Personal Journey to Uncover the Truth by Graham Ratcliffe

8. A Day to Die For: 1996: Everest's Worst Disaster - One Survivor's Personal Journey to Uncover the Truth

By: Graham Ratcliffe

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The truth about the 1996 Everest disaster by one of its survivors. On the night of May 10-11, 1996,… read more

Similar categories in Graham Ratcliffe's A Day to Die For: 1996: Everest's Worst Disaster - One Survivor's Personal Journey to Uncover the Truth book and Kurt Diemberger's The Endless Knot: K2 Mountain of Dreams and Destiny

  • mountaineering
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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9. The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak

By: David Roberts , Ed Viesturs

4.25

Format: None pages,

The bestselling author of No Shortcuts to the Top and K2chronicles his three attempts to climb the … read more

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  • travel
  • mountaineering
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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10. El guardián invisible (Trilogía del Baztán, #1)

By: Dolores Redondo

4.51

Format: 192 pages, ebook

Ainhoa Elizasu fue la segunda victima del basajaun, aunque entonces la prensa todavia no lo llamaba… read more

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11. Regions of the Heart: The Triumph and Tragedy of Alison Hargreaves

By: Ed Douglas , David Rose , David Rose

4.67

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

By any standard, Alison Hargreaves was a world-class mountaineer. In May 1995, she reached the summ… read more

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  • travel
  • mountaineering
  • nonfiction
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12. This Game of Ghosts

By: Joe Simpson

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

When mountain climber Simon Yates cut the rope and sent his friend and climbing partner Joe Simpson… read more

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  • travel
  • mountaineering
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

13. K2: Triumph and Tragedy

By: Jim Curran

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

K2 is the second highest mountain in the world, at 8611 metres only a couple of hundred metres lowe… read more

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14. The Mammoth Book of Mountain Disasters: True Stories of Rescue from the Brink of Death

By: Hamish MacInnes

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the Appalachians to Mount Cook, from Peak Lenin to Siula Grande, the thirty-five gripping firs… read more

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15. Clouds From Both Sides

By: None , None

3.33

Format: 140 pages,

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16. The Worst Journey in the World

By: Apsley Cherry-Garrard , Caroline Alexander

4.38

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

The Worst Journey in the Worldrecounts Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole… read more

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17. The Climb - Tragic Ambitions on Everest

By: Anatoli Boukreev , G. Weston DeWalt

3.68

Format: 528 pages,

The Climbis Russian mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev's account of the harrowing May 1996 Mount Everest … read more

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18. Annapurna

By: Maurice Herzog , Janet Adam Smith , Eric Shipton , None

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

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19. No Way Down: Life and Death on K2

By: Graham Bowley

3.64

Format: 320 pages,

In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, journalist Graham Bowley re-creates one of the most … read more

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20. K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain

By: David Roberts , Ed Viesturs

5.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and … read more

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21. One Mountain Thousand Summits: The Untold Story Tragedy and True Heroism on K2

By: None

4.15

Format: None pages,

An insider's account of one of the deadliest and most controversial tragedies in mountaineering his… read more

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22. Ascent into Hell

By: Fergus White

4.48

Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition

There is but one aim: the summit, the summit of Mount Everest. What starts with a trouble-free tre… read more

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  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • sports
Cover of Everest the Cruel Way: The audacious winter attempt of the West Ridge by Joe Tasker

23. Everest the Cruel Way: The audacious winter attempt of the West Ridge

By: Joe Tasker

3.96

Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition

On 30 January 1981 Joe Tasker and Ade Burgess stood at 24,000 feet on the west ridge of Mount Evere… read more

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  • travel
  • mountaineering
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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24. Everest: It's Not About the Summit

By: Ellis Stewart

4.23

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2014 Mount Everest was closed to all climbers after a devastating avalanche claimed the lives of… read more

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  • mountaineering
  • nonfiction
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25. The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest

By: Mark Synnott

4.14

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

***NPR Books We Love selection*** “If you’re only going to read one Everest book this decade, make… read more

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  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • sports
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26. El italiano

By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

«Nada traiciona, tanto tiempo después, la mujer que desde hace dos años vive sola junto al mar con … read more

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27. Bucket To Greece Volume 16: A Comical Living Abroad Adventure

By: V.D. Bucket

4.68

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Abandoned in a bucket…to new adventures in GreeceThe delightfully comic account of a British couple… read more

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28. The Endless Knot: K2 Mountain of Dreams and Destiny

By: Kurt Diemberger

4.16

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A monumental book … I defy anyone to read it and remain unmoved.’ Stephen Venables, Alpine Journal… read more

Similar categories in Kurt Diemberger's The Endless Knot: K2 Mountain of Dreams and Destiny book and Kurt Diemberger's The Endless Knot: K2 Mountain of Dreams and Destiny

  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • sports
  • nature
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29. Bájame una estrella

By: Miriam García Pascual

4.07

Format: 65 pages, Paperback

Miriam García Pascual acostumbraba a escribir en un diario cada una de sus experiencias y viajes, "… read more

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30. The Everest Years: The challenge of the world's highest mountain

By: Chris Bonington

4.17

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

Sir Chris Bonington is a household name as a result of his distinguished mountaineering career duri… read more

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  • travel
  • mountaineering
  • nonfiction
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31. El pantà maleït

By: Tura Soler

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

El doble crim de Susqueda continua essent un misteri. No s'ha trobat l'arma homicida, es desconeix … read more

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16 Best nonfiction books like The Endless Knot: K2 Mountain of Dreams and Destiny by Kurt Diemberger

Transform Your Habits

Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

Joe Simpson

4.23

Transform Your Habits

My Vertical World: Climbing the 8000-Metre Peaks

Jerzy Kukuczka , Andrew Wielochowski

3.81

Transform Your Habits

The Mountains of My Life

Walter Bonatti

3.84

Wind, Sand and Stars

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , Lewis Galantière

3.82

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13 Top adventure books like Everest the Cruel Way: The audacious winter attempt of the West Ridge by Joe Tasker

Transform Your Habits

Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

Joe Simpson

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season

Nick Heil

4.08

Transform Your Habits

A Day to Die For: 1996: Everest's Worst Disaster - One Survivor's Personal Journey to Uncover the Truth

Graham Ratcliffe

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak

David Roberts , Ed Viesturs

4.25

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