13 Best nonfiction books like Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season by Nick Heil

Cover of Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season by Nick Heil

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…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season by Nick Heil , here is a list of 13 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

Similar categories in Joe Simpson's Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival book and Nick Heil's Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season

  • survival
  • 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

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2. Annapurna: A Woman's Place

By: Maurice Herzog , Arlene Blum

4.18

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In August 1978, thirteen women left San Francisco for the Nepal Himalaya to make history as the fir… read more

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  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • climbing
Cover of The Ghosts of K2: The Epic Saga of the First Ascent by Mick Conefrey

3. 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

Similar categories in Mick Conefrey's The Ghosts of K2: The Epic Saga of the First Ascent book and Nick Heil's Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season

  • history
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • climbing
Cover of The Summit: How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days by Pat Falvey, Pemba Gyalje Sherpa

4. The Summit: How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days

By: Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa

4.11

Format: 256 pages,

On 1 August 2008, thirty-four climbers from across the world set out in their attempt to reach the … read more

Similar categories in Pat Falvey's The Summit: How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days book and Nick Heil's Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season

  • survival
  • history
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • climbing
Cover of Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season by Nick Heil

5. 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

Similar categories in Nick Heil's Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season book and Nick Heil's Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season

  • survival
  • history
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • climbing
Cover of Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest by Beck Weathers, Stephen G. Michaud

6. 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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  • survival
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
Cover of The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak by David  Roberts, Ed Viesturs

7. 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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  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • climbing
Cover of Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak by Andy   Hall

8. Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak

By: Andy Hall

4.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Denali's Howlis the white-knuckle account of one of the most deadly climbing disasters of all time.… read more

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  • survival
  • history
  • adventure
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering

9. The Mountain: My Time on Everest

By: David Roberts , Ed Viesturs

4.21

Format: 256 pages, ebook

In national bestseller The Mountain, world-renowned climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs and … read more

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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. 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. Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains

By: Jon Krakauer

4.38

Format: 234 pages,

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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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

Similar categories in Fergus White's Ascent into Hell book and Nick Heil's Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season

  • survival
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • climbing
Cover of Shook: An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest's Deadliest Day by Jennifer  Hull

18. Shook: An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest's Deadliest Day

By: Jennifer Hull

4.01

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the 2021 National Outdoor Book Award (History/Biography category) Winner of the 2021 Zia… read more

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  • history
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • climbing
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19. 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
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
Cover of The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest by Mark Synnott

20. 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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  • history
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • climbing
Cover of Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World by Will Cockrell

21. Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World

By: Will Cockrell

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Ank… read more

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  • history
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering

8 Best history books like Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season by Nick Heil

Transform Your Habits

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

Mick Conefrey

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Summit: How Triumph Turned To Tragedy On K2’s Deadliest Days

Pat Falvey , Pemba Gyalje Sherpa

4.11

Transform Your Habits

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

Nick Heil

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak

Andy Hall

4.57

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12 best-selling adventure books like Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest by Beck Weathers, Stephen G. Michaud

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

Climbing High: A Woman's Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy

Lene Gammelgaard , Press Seal

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Everest : Mountain Without Mercy

Broughton Coburn

3.49

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