7 Best adventure books like The Naked Mountain by Reinhold Messner

Cover of The Naked Mountain by Reinhold Messner

The Naked Mountain

By: Reinhold Messner

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

* Did Reinhold Messner sacrifice his brother to his ambition? * Publication of this book in German…

If you liked the adventure plot in The Naked Mountain by Reinhold Messner , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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

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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • climbing
"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

Cover of L'Avversario by Emmanuel Carrère, Eliana Vicari Fabris

2. L'Avversario

By: Emmanuel Carrère , Eliana Vicari Fabris

3.99

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

«Il 9 gennaio 1993 Jean-Claude Romand ha ucciso la moglie, i figli e i genitori, poi ha tentato di … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Il est notoire que les hommes les plus remarquables sont aussi les plus modestes, les moins soucieux de l'opinion qu'on a d'eux."

-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario

"Je n'ai jamais été aussi libre, jamais la vie n'a été aussi belle. Je suis un assassin, j'ai l'image la plus basse qui puisse exister dans la société, mais c'est plus facile à supporter que les vingt…"

-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario

Cover of The Summit of the Gods Volume 3 by Jirō Taniguchi, Baku Yumemakura, None

3. The Summit of the Gods Volume 3

By: Jirō Taniguchi , Baku Yumemakura , None

4.35

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

"EVEREST'S MYSTERY." "Far higher in the sky than imagination had dared to suggest, the white summit… read more

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  • mountaineering
  • adventure
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4. Dance Dance Dance

By: Haruki Murakami

4.05

Format: 393 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition here. High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old … read more

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"I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel."

-Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

"What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with."

-Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

"I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more."

-Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

"We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear."

-Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

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5. Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays

By: Christa Wolf , Jan van Heurck

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In this volume, the distinguished East German writer Christa Wolf retells the story of the fall of … read more

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  • german literature
Cover of The Wife (Kristin Lavransdatter, #2) by Tiina Nunnally, Sigrid Undset, Sherrill Harbison

6. The Wife (Kristin Lavransdatter, #2)

By: Tiina Nunnally , Sigrid Undset , Sherrill Harbison

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Original 3 Volumes: Kransen ('20), Husfrue ('21) & Korset ('22). In Kristin Lavransdatter(1920-22),… read more

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Cover of The Cross (Kristin Lavransdatter, #3) by Tiina Nunnally, Sigrid Undset, Sherrill Harbison

7. The Cross (Kristin Lavransdatter, #3)

By: Tiina Nunnally , Sigrid Undset , Sherrill Harbison

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Kristin Lavransdatterinterweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of… read more

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8. The Mountains of My Life

By: Walter Bonatti

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

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  • biography
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • climbing

9. Il divano di Istanbul

By: Alessandro Barbero , Sergio Valzania

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Un ambasciatore dell'Impero Ottomano giunge in una capitale europea. Gli ospiti cristiani lo accomp… read more

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10. Le otto montagne

By: Paolo Cognetti

3.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Pietro e un ragazzino di citta, solitario e un po' scontroso. La madre lavora in un consultorio di … read more

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11. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

By: Jon Krakauer

4.38

Format: 234 pages,

A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Kraka… read more

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12. 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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13. The Summit of the Gods Volume 1

By: Jirō Taniguchi , Baku Yumemakura

4.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

"BECAUSE IT'S THERE." George Herbert Leigh Mallory is said to have given this answer in reply to th… read more

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14. Annapurna

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

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

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15. 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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16. A Tale of Love and Darkness

By: Amos Oz , Nicholas de Lange

4.23

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, A Tale of Love and Darkness is at once a family saga and a magic… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar."

-Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

"When my father was a young man in Vilna, every wall in Europe said, "Jews go home to Palestine." Fifty years later, when he went back to Europe on a visit, the walls all screamed, "Jews get out of Pa…"

-Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

"Papa used to say that wealth is a sin and poverty is a punishment but that God apparently wants there to be no connection between the sin and the punishment. One man sins and another is punished. Tha…"

-Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

"Love is a curious mixture of opposites, a blend of extreme selfishness and total devotion. A paradox! Besides which, love, everybody is always talking about love, love, but love isn't something you c…"

-Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

17. Pista nera

By: Antonio Manzini

4.03

Format: 325 pages, ebook

Semisepolto in mezzo a una pista sciistica sopra Champoluc, in Val d'Aosta, viene rinvenuto un cada… read more

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18. Le sommet des dieux 4

By: Jirō Taniguchi , Baku Yumemakura

4.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tandis que l'appareil photo qui aurait pu appartenir au celebre alpiniste disparu George Mallory su… read more

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19. Cometa sull'Annapurna

By: Simone Moro

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Simone Moro e un alpinista d'alta quota. In questo libro, il primo che scrive, vuole raccontare la … read more

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Cover of Giù nella valle by Paolo Cognetti

20. Giù nella valle

By: Paolo Cognetti

3.58

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Un padre ha piantato due alberi davanti alla sua casa, uno per ogni figlio. Il primo, un larice, … read more

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21. White Holes

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of El enigma de la habitación 622 by Joël Dicker

22. El enigma de la habitación 622

By: Joël Dicker

3.89

Format: 696 pages, Paperback

Una noche de diciembre, un cadáver yace en el suelo de la habitación 622 del Palace de Verbier, un … read more

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"El amor no es tanto alquimia como obra del tiempo. El amor es sobre todo esfuerzo. Te deseo que te esfuerces lo bastante para amar y que te amen."

-Joël Dicker, El enigma de la habitación 622

"La vida es una novela que ya sabemos cómo termina: al final el protagonista muere. Así que lo más importante no es cómo acaba nuestra historia, sino cómo vamos a llenar las páginas"

-Joël Dicker, El enigma de la habitación 622

"La vida es una novela que ya sabemos cómo termina: al final el protagonista muere. Así que lo más importante no es cómo acaba nuestra historia, sino cómo vamos a llenar las páginas."

-Joël Dicker, El enigma de la habitación 622

"La vida es una novela que ya sabemos cómo termina: al final el protagonista muere. Así que lo más importante no es cómo acaba nuestra historia, sino cómo vamos a llenar las páginas. Pues la vida, igu…"

-Joël Dicker, El enigma de la habitación 622

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23. The Summit Of The Gods: Volume 5

By: Jirō Taniguchi

4.60

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

ANOTHER SUMMIT The scene is finally set for Habu's challenge of the South West face of Everest i… read more

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  • mountaineering
  • adventure
Cover of The Naked Mountain by Reinhold Messner

24. The Naked Mountain

By: Reinhold Messner

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

* Did Reinhold Messner sacrifice his brother to his ambition? * Publication of this book in German… read more

Similar categories in Reinhold Messner's The Naked Mountain book and Reinhold Messner's The Naked Mountain

  • german literature
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • climbing
  • nature
Cover of Frêney 1961. Tragedia sul Monte Bianco by Marco Albino Ferrari

25. Frêney 1961. Tragedia sul Monte Bianco

By: Marco Albino Ferrari

4.33

Format: 235 pages, Paperback

Dalla Val Veny, poco sopra Courmayeur, il Monte Bianco appare come una cattedrale di neve e granito… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Il richiamo del K2. La dura lezione della montagna by Tamara Lunger

26. Il richiamo del K2. La dura lezione della montagna

By: Tamara Lunger

3.58

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

None read more

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Cover of Nanga. Fra rispetto e pazienza, come ho corteggiato la montagna che chiamavano assassina by Simone Moro

27. Nanga. Fra rispetto e pazienza, come ho corteggiato la montagna che chiamavano assassina

By: Simone Moro

3.77

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

Quella di Moro per il Nanga Parbat è una folgorazione, una scintilla scoccata sulle pagine dei libr… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Summit of the Gods Volume 2 by Jirō Taniguchi

28. The Summit of the Gods Volume 2

By: Jirō Taniguchi

4.47

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

George Herbert Leigh Mallory is said to have given this in reply to the question "Why do you want t… read more

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  • mountaineering
  • adventure
Cover of Am seidenen Faden: K2 und andere Grenzerfahrungen by Hans Kammerlander

29. Am seidenen Faden: K2 und andere Grenzerfahrungen

By: Hans Kammerlander

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Unusual book read more

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  • travel
  • mountaineering
  • nonfiction
Cover of Tomaz Humar by Bernadette McDonald

30. Tomaz Humar

By: Bernadette McDonald

4.10

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

In August, 2005, Tomaž Humar was trapped on a narrow ledge at 19,000 feet on the formidable Rupal f… read more

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  • biography
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
"Life is beautiful, but only if you live it fully!"

-Bernadette McDonald, Tomaz Humar

"He (Tomaz Humar) doesn't conform to existing standards; he creates them."

-Bernadette McDonald, Tomaz Humar

"What counts are merely the experiences one gains along the way. -Reinhold Messner"

-Bernadette McDonald, Tomaz Humar

"Only secrets can be conquered'- most of all the secrets that lie within ourselves."

-Bernadette McDonald, Tomaz Humar

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3.84

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4.10

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3.54

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