9 must-read climbing books like Up and About: The Hard Road to Everest by Doug K. Scott

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Up and About: The Hard Road to Everest

By: Doug K. Scott

4.30

Format: 424 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner: Himalayan Club Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature‘A full and fascinating portrait …

If you liked the climbing plot in Up and About: The Hard Road to Everest by Doug K. Scott , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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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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  • 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

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2. Freedom Climbers

By: Bernadette McDonald

4.30

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

Winner! 2012 American Alpine Club Literary Prize (USA) Winner! 2011 Munday Award, Banff Mountain… read more

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  • mountaineering
  • climbing
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3. 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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  • mountaineering
  • climbing

4. The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.3)

By: Alexandre Dumas , Francine du Plessix Gray , Joachim Neugroschel

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

A swashbuckling novel of political intrigue. In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's cel… read more

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5. 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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6. Beyond the Mountain

By: Steve House

4.50

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

What does it take to be one of the world's best high-altitude mountain climbers? A lot of fundraisi… read more

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7. No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks

By: David Roberts , Ed Viesturs

4.32

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes h… read more

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8. The Shining Mountain: Two Men On Changabang's West Wall

By: Peter Boardman

3.82

Format: None pages,

Describes the adventures of Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker on their expedition to climb a mountain i… read more

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9. I Hear the Sirens in the Street (Detective Sean Duffy #2)

By: Adrian McKinty

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

Irlanda del Norte, anos ochenta. Un torso aparece en una maleta abandonada. Ha estado congelado, lo… read more

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10. The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

By: Adrian McKinty , Gerard Doyle

3.92

Format: 11 pages, Audio CD

Northern Ireland, spring 1981. Hunger strikes, riots, power cuts, a homophobic serial killer with a… read more

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"Johnnie Walker in the tea, Jim Beam in the coffee"

-Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

"more guilt, guilt, guilt. That's the Irish condition."

-Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

"Who do you think's after you, Shane, my lad? Or is it just the dark you're afeared of?"

-Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

"The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket."

-Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

11. The Calling: A Life Rocked by Mountains

By: Barry Blanchard

5.00

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

With heart-pounding descriptions of avalanches and treacherous ascents, Barry Blanchard chronicles … read more

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12. The Edge (The 6:20 Man, #2)

By: David Baldacci

4.37

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

The 6:20 Man is back, dropped by his handlers into a small coastal town in Maine to solve the murde… read more

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13. The Law of Innocence (The Lincoln Lawyer, #6; Harry Bosch Universe #35)

By: Michael Connelly

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a client in the trunk… read more

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14. Past Lying (Karen Pirie #7)

By: Val McDermid

4.26

Format: 452 pages, Hardcover

Val McDermid returns with DCI Karen Pirie in a new thriller of deceit and vengeance, set against th… read more

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15. A Winter Grave

By: Peter May

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

It is the year 2051. Warnings of climate catastrophe have been ignored, and vast areas of the plane… read more

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16. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World

By: Tim Marshall

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more

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17. In Some Lost Place: The first ascent of Nanga Parbats Mazeno Ridge

By: Sandy Allan

4.26

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

In the summer of 2012, a team of six climbers set out to attempt the first ascent of one of the gre… read more

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  • mountaineering
  • climbing
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18. Dream Town (Archer, #3)

By: David Baldacci

4.08

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

1953 LA. Private investigator and World War II veteran Aloysius Archer intends to ring in the New Y… read more

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19. The Dark Remains

By: William McIlvanney

3.84

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

In this scorching crime prequel, New York Times best-selling author Ian Rankin and Scottish crime-w… read more

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"The law's not about justice. It's a system we've put in place because we can't have justice."

-William McIlvanney, The Dark Remains

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20. The Seventh Girl (Detective Kat Ballantyne, #1)

By: Andy Maslen

4.11

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

She thought he was gone. She was wrong. Fifteen years ago a serial killer was on a rampage murderi… read more

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21. The Running Girls

By: Matt Brolly

4.08

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of the Detective Louise Blackwell series comes a story of two murders, … read more

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22. Scheme

By: Jeffery Deaver

3.99

Format: 91 pages, Kindle Edition

A detective tracks a poetry-obsessed serial bomber—meter by deadly meter—in an explosively clever s… read more

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23. The New Kingdom (Ancient Egypt, #7)

By: Wilbur Smith

4.13

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new Egyptian novel from the master of adventure fiction, Wilbur Smith In the heart of Eg… read more

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24. Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone

By: Nimsdai Purja

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781529312249. In Beyond Possible Nimsdai Purja tells the story … read more

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  • mountaineering
  • climbing
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25. Starlight and Storm (Modern Library Exploration)

By: Gaston Rébuffat

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

“One of the great climbers of all time . . . who has discovered through the medium of mountains the… read more

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  • mountaineering
  • climbing
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26. Trigger Point (The Gabriel Wolfe Thrillers Book 1)

By: Andy Maslen

3.98

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Wolfe. Ex-SAS and haunted by the ghosts of his fallen comrades. He left the army with a chest … read more

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27. Winter 8000: Climbing the World’s Highest Mountains in the Coldest Season

By: Bernadette McDonald

4.27

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Mountain Literature While you wouldn’t expect clim… read more

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  • mountaineering
  • climbing
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28. Everest 1922: The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the World's Highest Mountain

By: Mick Conefrey

3.91

Format: 352 pages, ebook

The dramatic and inspiring account of the very first attempt to climb Mount Everest, published to c… read more

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  • mountaineering
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29. 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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  • mountaineering
  • climbing
Cover of Up and About: The Hard Road to Everest by Doug K. Scott

30. Up and About: The Hard Road to Everest

By: Doug K. Scott

4.30

Format: 424 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner: Himalayan Club Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature‘A full and fascinating portrait … read more

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  • mountaineering
  • climbing
Cover of Slow Horses (Slough House, #1) by Mick Herron

31. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

By: Mick Herron

4.00

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more

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"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"​This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

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Joe Simpson

4.23

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Bernadette McDonald

4.30

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Conquistadors Of The Useless

Lionel Terray

3.53

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Sandy Allan

4.26

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Ian Rankin

3.71

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Ian Rankin , Jack Harvey

4.00

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Ian Rankin

3.50

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