Climbing

Climbing is the activity of using one's hands, feet, or any other part of the body to ascend a steep object. It is done recreationally, competitively, in trades that rely on it, and in emergency rescue and military operations. It is done indoors and out, on natural and man-made structures. ...more

Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali
Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within
A Light through the Cracks: A Climber's Story
The Moth and the Mountain
Life Lived Wild:  Adventures at the Edge of the Map
A Wild Idea
Dixon, Descending
How to Solve a Problem: The Rise (and Falls) of a Rock-Climbing Champion
The Next Everest
The World Beneath Their Feet: Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas
Time on Rock: A Climber's Route into the Mountains
Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Alone on the Wall
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
The Rock Warrior's Way: Mental Training for Climbers
The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits
9 Out of 10 Climbers Make the Same Mistakes: Navigation Through the Maze of Advice for the Self-coached Climber
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills
Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
Training for Climbing: The Definitive Guide to Improving Your Climbing Performance (How to Climb Series)
Self-Coached Climber
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
Climbing Anchors
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
Last Child in the Woods by Richard LouvEndurance by Alfred LansingA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo LeopoldThe Starship & the Canoe by Kenneth BrowerArctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
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Ed Viesturs
Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.
Ed Viesturs, No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks

By 1987 I had a stack of cartoons. That summer, stormbound on Mount Sir Francis Drake, while bailing the tent like it was a canoe shot by a cannon, I told my friend Dave Harris about the work. David was a graphic designer and his wife sold printing for a large print shop. “Do a comic book!” he said. So, with ginormous help from the both of them, I did. Three hundred copies of Lies and slander from a demented little corner of the coast range were printed up and sold for five bucks each. And then, ...more
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