Mountaineering

The term mountaineering describes the sport of mountain climbing, including ski mountaineering. Hiking in the mountains can also be a simple form of mountaineering when it involves scrambling, or short stretches of the more basic grades of rock climbing, as well as crossing glaciers.

Also known as Mountain Climbing and Alpinism

One Wrong Step
Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali
La felicità del lupo
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
Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas
A Light through the Cracks: A Climber's Story
Life Lived Wild:  Adventures at the Edge of the Map
Dixon, Descending
Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains
The Next Everest
In the Shadow of the Mountain
The World Beneath Their Feet: Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2
The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Bitter Past by Bruce BorgosHeidi by Johanna SpyriMan Hunt by Vanessa ValeInto Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Mountains on the Cover
405 books — 60 voters
Heidi by Johanna SpyriA Castle in the Clouds by Kerstin GierBarry by Lynn HallPrelude by Madeleine L'EngleThe Silent Bells by William MacKellar
Switzerland in Juvenile Fiction
179 books — 9 voters

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「Meters」書系
10 books — 1 voter

Summit by Harry FarthingThe Next Everest by Jim DavidsonRocky Mountain Adventure Collection by T.J. BurrThis Side of a Wilderness by Daniel J. RiceSnow Tales and Powder Trails by Steve  Baldwin
Mountain Adventure
12 books — 10 voters
The Mountains of My Life by Walter BonattiThe White Spider by Heinrich HarrerEdge of the Map by Johanna GartonKilimanjaro and Beyond by Barry FinlayAnnapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak by Maurice Herzog
Mountaineering
22 books — 27 voters


Mehmet Murat ildan
What draws us from the low valleys to the high mountains is that noble stance of the summits!
Mehmet Murat ildan

Jeffrey Rasley
Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.
Jeffrey Rasley, Bringing Progress to Paradise: What I Got from Giving to a Mountain Village in Nepal

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