Sacred Summits: Kangchenjunga, the Carstensz Pyramid, and Gauri Sankar
By: Peter Boardman
4.30
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
Mountaintops have long been seen as sacred places, home to gods and dreams. In one climbing year Pe…
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1. 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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2. 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
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3. K2, The Savage Mountain: The Classic True Story of Disaster and Survival on the World's Second Highest Mountain
By: Charles S. Houston , Robert H. Bates , Jim Wickwire
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
The 1953 American expedition to the second highest peak in the world. read more
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4. 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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5. The White Spider
By: Heinrich Harrer
2.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
The White Spider dramatically recreates not only the harrowing, successful ascent made by Harrer an… read more
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6. 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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7. 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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8. Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
By: Jon Krakauer
4.38
Format: 234 pages,
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9. 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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10. Annapurna
By: Maurice Herzog , Janet Adam Smith , Eric Shipton , None
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
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11. 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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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. 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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14. A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
By: Arkady Martine
4.32
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one ca… read more
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15. 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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16. The Ogre: Biography of a mountain and the dramatic story of the first ascent
By: Doug K. Scott
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Some mountains are high; some mountains are hard. Few are both. On the afternoon of 13 July 1977, … read more
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17. 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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18. Savage Arena: K2, Changabang and the North Face of the Eiger
By: Joe Tasker
4.42
Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition
I could never again maintain that I was caught up in this game unwillingly. I knew now what I wante… read more
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19. The Mountain of My Fear / Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative
By: David Roberts
4.36
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Describes the tragedies, frustrations, and triumphs of two mountain climbing expeditions in Alaska. read more
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20. One Day as a Tiger: Alex MacIntyre and the Birth of Light and Fast Alpinism
By: John Porter
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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21. Sacred Summits: Kangchenjunga, the Carstensz Pyramid, and Gauri Sankar
By: Peter Boardman
4.30
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
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