9 Best memoir books like Ascent into Hell by Fergus White

Cover of Ascent into Hell by Fergus White

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…

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

3. 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
  • biography
  • memoir
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  • mountaineering
Cover of A Day to Die For: 1996: Everest's Worst Disaster - One Survivor's Personal Journey to Uncover the Truth by Graham Ratcliffe

4. A Day to Die For: 1996: Everest's Worst Disaster - One Survivor's Personal Journey to Uncover the Truth

By: Graham Ratcliffe

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The truth about the 1996 Everest disaster by one of its survivors. On the night of May 10-11, 1996,… read more

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  • survival
  • memoir
  • adventure
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  • mountaineering
  • sports
Cover of Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak by Andy   Hall

5. 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
  • adventure
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  • sports
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6. Surviving K2

By: Wilco van Rooijen

4.13

Format: None pages,

WILCO VAN ROOIJEN: SURVIVING K2 Surviving two days in the Death Zone In the summer of 2008 the 'Nor… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
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  • mountaineering
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  • sports

7. 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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8. Into the Abyss: How a Deadly Plane Crash Changed the Lives of a Pilot, a Politician, a Criminal and a Cop

By: Carol Shaben

4.75

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Only four men survived the plane crash. The pilot. A politician. A cop... and the criminal he was s… read more

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9. 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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10. Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains

By: Jon Krakauer

4.38

Format: 234 pages,

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11. Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

By: David Roberts

3.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

"An important missing story from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration."--Laurence Gonzales, auth… 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. After the Wind: 1996 Everest Tragedy—One Survivor's Story

By: Lou Kasischke

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Near the top of Mount Everest, on 10 May 1996, eight climbers died. It was the worst tragedy in the… 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. Snow in the Kingdom: My Storm Years on Everest

By: None

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Hardcover

Snow in the Kingdomis the Everest autobiography of Ed Webster's five "Storm Years" on and off of Mo… read more

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17. 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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18. Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

By: Wade Davis

3.33

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

A magnificent work of history, biography and adventure. If the quest for Mount Everest began as a g… 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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  • survival
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • climbing
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Shook: An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest's Deadliest Day by Jennifer  Hull

20. 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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  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • climbing
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The Next Everest by Jim Davidson

21. 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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  • memoir
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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • mountaineering
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Everest: It's Not About the Summit by Ellis Stewart

22. Everest: It's Not About the Summit

By: Ellis Stewart

4.23

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2014 Mount Everest was closed to all climbers after a devastating avalanche claimed the lives of… read more

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

23. 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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  • memoir
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  • climbing
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Hidden Mountains: Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong by Michael Wejchert

24. 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
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  • climbing
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 1) by Patrick     Taylor

25. Lost on Purpose: Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man (Real-Life Adventures of the Texas Yeti Book 1)

By: Patrick Taylor

4.08

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

“Lost on Purpose” is the non-fiction adventure narrative of a former technology executive who took … read more

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

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

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

Cover of 8 Miraculous Months in the Malayan Jungle: A WWII Pilot's True Story of Faith, Courage, and Survival by Donald J. "DJ" Humphrey II

27. 8 Miraculous Months in the Malayan Jungle: A WWII Pilot's True Story of Faith, Courage, and Survival

By: Donald J. "DJ" Humphrey II

4.46

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

A Grueling Survival Story About a WWII Hero’s Fight for Freedom On January 11, 1945, Major Donald … read more

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  • survival
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Survival on Formidable Peaks: Epic Climbing Accounts from Dangerous Mountains by Carlos Baxter

28. Survival on Formidable Peaks: Epic Climbing Accounts from Dangerous Mountains

By: Carlos Baxter

3.94

Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition

Survival on Formidable Peaks covers some of the most harrowing experiences climbers have survived a… read more

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29. 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
Cover of Everest '96: A Compelling Expose of Death and Deceit by Ken  Vernon

30. Everest '96: A Compelling Expose of Death and Deceit

By: Ken Vernon

3.92

Format: 457 pages, Kindle Edition

The highest mountain on the planet brings out the best in people – and the worst. We usually only r… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Mount Everest: Confessions of an Amateur Peak Bagger by Kevin Flynn

31. Mount Everest: Confessions of an Amateur Peak Bagger

By: Kevin Flynn

4.21

Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition

A true story, warts and all, of what really happened to ad exec and amateur climber Kevin Flynn dur… read more

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6 Best audiobook books like Ascent into Hell by Fergus White

Transform Your Habits

Ascent into Hell

Fergus White

4.48

Transform Your Habits

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

Jennifer Hull

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Next Everest

Jim Davidson

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest

Mark Synnott

4.14

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17 best-selling adventure books like Tears in the Wind: Triumph and Tragedy on America’s Highest Peak by Larry Semento

Transform Your Habits

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Andrea Lankford

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West

Marty Ohlhaut

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Ascent into Hell

Fergus White

4.48

Transform Your Habits

The Next Everest

Jim Davidson

4.10

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