12 Top adventure books like The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2 by Jennifer Jordan

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The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2

By: Jennifer Jordan

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"A fascinating tale…Readers who are into high-altitude adventure stories won’t be disappointed." ― …

If you liked the adventure plot in The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2 by Jennifer Jordan , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer

By: Galen A. Rowell , Anatoli Boukreev , Linda Wylie , Galen Rowell

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A breathtaking and lavishly illustrated autobiography in essays on Anatoli Boukreev, the late world… read more

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  • biography
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • climbing
Cover of A Fatal Thaw (Kate Shugak, #2) by Dana Stabenow

2. A Fatal Thaw (Kate Shugak, #2)

By: Dana Stabenow

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

On her homestead in the middle of twenty million acres of national Park, Aleut P.I. Kate Shugak is … read more

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Cover of Dead In The Water (Kate Shugak, #3) by Dana Stabenow

3. Dead In The Water (Kate Shugak, #3)

By: Dana Stabenow

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Once, Kate Shugak was the star investigator of the Anchorage D.A, 's office. Now she's gone back to… read more

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4. The Ghosts of K2: The Epic Saga of the First Ascent

By: Mick Conefrey

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"Downright thrilling; [Conefrey] really gives us a sense of what it must have been like, battling e… read more

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  • history
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • climbing
  • sports
Cover of The Atlantis Gene (The Origin Mystery, #1) by A.G. Riddle

5. The Atlantis Gene (The Origin Mystery, #1)

By: A.G. Riddle

3.63

Format: None pages, Paperback

THE GREATEST MYSTERY OF ALL TIME... THE HISTORY OF HUMAN ORIGINS... WILL BE REVEALED. -------------… read more

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  • adventure
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6. Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season

By: Nick Heil

4.08

Format: 88 pages,

In early May 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everes… read more

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  • history
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • climbing
Cover of Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3) by Dorothy L. Sayers

7. Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.07

Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The wealthy Agatha Dawson is dead--a trifle sooner than expected--but there are no apparent signs o… read more

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"It doesn't do for people, especially doctors, to go about 'thinking' things. They may get into frightful trouble."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

"…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a good story in rotten English, which is as far as most people seem to get nowad…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

"I sleuth, you know. For a hobby. Harmless outlet for natural inquisitiveness, don't you see, which might otherwise strike inward and produce introspection an' suicide. Very natural, healthy pursuit -…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

"Miss Climpson," said Lord Peter, "is a manifestation of the wasteful way in which this country is run. Look at electricity, Look at water-power. Look at the tides. Look at the sun. Millions of power …"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

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8. 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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  • biography
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
Cover of Sully: My Search for What Really Matters by Jeffrey Zaslow, Chesley B. Sullenberger III

9. Sully: My Search for What Really Matters

By: Jeffrey Zaslow , Chesley B. Sullenberger III

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks--the inspirational autobiography… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

10. Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day

By: Peter Zuckerman , Amanda Padoan

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. Indeed, for… read more

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11. Blood Will Tell (Kate Shugak, #6)

By: Dana Stabenow

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Dana Stabenow once again returns to Alaska, America's last frontier, where her unforgettable Aleut … read more

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12. 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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13. Sound Man

By: Glyn Johns

3.71

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of a remarkable rock-and-roll career from Glyn Johns, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame produce… read more

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14. Breakup (Kate Shugak, #7)

By: Dana Stabenow

3.69

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

April in Alaska is the period of spring thaw, what the locals call breakup. For Kate, this year's m… read more

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15. Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life

By: Arlene Blum

3.86

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A legendary trailblazer, Arlene Blum defied the climbing establishment of the 1970s by leading the … read more

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16. Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.96

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

The party's over when murder makes an entrance...With the notion of bringing together the most bitt… read more

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"With corpses stiffening on the premises, sir, all things be possible to a man with a desperate powerful idea egging him on."

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"They were fortified with all the resilience that youth presents to an emotional shock. In the midst of murder and attempted suicide, they had managed, not only to behave with address and good sense, …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"For some reason that he had never been able to understand, Mandrake was a man in whom his fellow-creatures confided. He was by no means obviously sympathetic and he seldom asked for confidences but, …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"Beneath it hung a faded photograph in an Oxford frame. It presented a Victorian gentleman wearing an ineffable air of hauteur and a costume which suggested that he had begun to dress up as Mr. Sherlo…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

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17. Walking Home: Common Sense and Other Misadventures On the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Rick Rogers

4.31

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

-A Heartwarming Adventure! - 2022 Best Book Award Winner in Travel Guides & Essays! Can a comicall… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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18. The Boat House

By: Keri Beevis

4.05

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

Max Hunter, my boyfriend, booked the beautiful boat house on the Norfolk Broads as a surprise autum… read more

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19. 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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  • biography
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • climbing
  • sports
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20. The Next Everest

By: Jim Davidson

4.10

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

One of Atlas & Boots' Top 10 Adventure Travel Books of 2021 A dramatic account of the deadl… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • sports
Cover of Hidden Mountains: Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong by Michael Wejchert

21. Hidden Mountains: Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong

By: Michael Wejchert

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The story of a climbing adventure gone wrong in a remote Alaskan mountain range, the impossible res… read more

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  • biography
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • climbing
  • sports
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22. Thin Ice (Alaska Wild, #1)

By: Paige Shelton

3.81

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Beth Rivers is on the run - she's doing the only thing she could think of to keep herself safe. Kno… read more

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"I knew I was keeping it together by only the thinnest of threads, but that was better than not keeping it together at all."

-Paige Shelton, Thin Ice (Alaska Wild, #1)

Cover of The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell

23. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

By: Jeff Goodell

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Final Hunt (The Final Hunt, #1) by Audrey J. Cole

24. The Final Hunt (The Final Hunt, #1)

By: Audrey J. Cole

4.13

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Alone in a hunting cabin, off-grid in an untamed wilderness. How does a marriage come to this? A… read more

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25. The In-Laws

By: James Caine

4.08

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

She visited them for the weekend. Now they won't let her leave. Chelsea Jameson married the perf… read more

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26. A Body Out at Sea (The Rejoiner #2; West Wales Murder Mysteries #2)

By: P.F. Ford

4.37

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Detective Norman is out of retirement and back solving murders. On a freezing November morning a… read more

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27. Every Living Thing (All Creatures Great and Small, #8)

By: James Herriot

4.49

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

For more than twenty years, James Herriot has captivated millions of readers and television viewers… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of If I Live Until Morning: A True Story of Adventure, Tragedy and Transformation by Jean Muenchrath

28. If I Live Until Morning: A True Story of Adventure, Tragedy and Transformation

By: Jean Muenchrath

3.94

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Her grand adventure turned into a nightmare. After skiing 200 miles along California's John Muir Tr… read more

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  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
"Life is short. Live you dreams now!"

-Jean Muenchrath, If I Live Until Morning: A True Story of Adventure, Tragedy and Transformation

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29. Graveyard of the Pacific: Shipwreck and Survival on America’s Deadliest Waterway

By: Randall Sullivan

3.30

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

A vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritimehistory, adventure journalism, and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • adventure
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30. Tears in the Wind: Triumph and Tragedy on America’s Highest Peak

By: Larry Semento

3.93

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

                 An Extraordinary True Adventure Story “This is an incredible account of what it t… read more

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  • mountaineering
  • nonfiction
  • adventure
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31. The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2

By: Jennifer Jordan

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"A fascinating tale…Readers who are into high-altitude adventure stories won’t be disappointed." ― … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • world history
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • climbing
  • sports

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4.08

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