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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.26 — 555,429 ratings — published 1997
Alone on the Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,429 ratings — published 2015
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.23 — 63,503 ratings — published 1988
The Rock Warrior's Way: Mental Training for Climbers (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,269 ratings — published 2003
The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.47 — 10,274 ratings — published 2017
9 Out of 10 Climbers Make the Same Mistakes: Navigation Through the Maze of Advice for the Self-coached Climber (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,168 ratings — published 2009
Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.59 — 3,943 ratings — published 1960
Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,400 ratings — published 2002
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,213 ratings — published 1990
Training for Climbing: The Definitive Guide to Improving Your Climbing Performance (How to Climb Series)
by (shelved 78 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.18 — 670 ratings — published 1997
Self-Coached Climber (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.22 — 565 ratings — published
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.99 — 18,028 ratings — published 1997
Climbing Anchors (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.35 — 405 ratings — published 1993
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak: (26,493 Feet)
by (shelved 52 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,358 ratings — published 1951
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,270 ratings — published 2006
Vertical Mind: Psychological Approaches for Optimal Rock Climbing (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.97 — 340 ratings — published 2014
The Rock Climber's Training Manual | A Guide to Continuous Improvement (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.49 — 289 ratings — published 2014
K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,820 ratings — published 2009
The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,445 ratings — published 1959
Make or Break: Don't Let Climbing Injuries Dictate Your Success (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.45 — 197 ratings — published 2015
The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,227 ratings — published 2019
Training for the New Alpinism: A Manual for the Climber as Athlete (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.53 — 1,337 ratings — published 2014
The Beckoning Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,686 ratings — published 2002
Espresso Lessons From The Rock Warrior's Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.19 — 280 ratings — published 2009
How To Climb 5.12 (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.71 — 307 ratings — published 1994
High Infatuation: A Climber's Guide to Love and Gravity (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,024 ratings — published 2007
Psychovertical (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.28 — 896 ratings — published 2008
Conquistadors of the Useless (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,518 ratings — published 1961
Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,105 ratings — published 2001
Rock Climbing Technique: The Practical Guide to Movement Mastery (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.43 — 254 ratings — published
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,321 ratings — published 2003
How to Rock Climb! (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.93 — 279 ratings — published 1989
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,179 ratings — published 2008
Mastermind: Mental Training for Climbers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.18 — 157 ratings — published
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.22 — 11,108 ratings — published 2012
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,611 ratings — published 2010
Better Bouldering (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.95 — 178 ratings — published 1997
Rock Climbing Anchors: A Comprehensive Guide (The Mountaineers Outdoor Experts Series)
by (shelved 24 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.32 — 231 ratings — published 2006
Conditioning for Climbers: The Complete Exercise Guide (How To Climb Series)
by (shelved 23 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.82 — 196 ratings — published 2008
Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.61 — 7,987 ratings — published 2000
Climbing Self Rescue: Improvising Solutions for Serious Situations (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.24 — 111 ratings — published 2006
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as climbing)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,708 ratings — published 1999
A Light through the Cracks: A Climber's Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,804 ratings — published 2024
The Climbing Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.42 — 224 ratings — published 2018
Trad Climber's Bible (How To Climb Series)
by (shelved 21 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.35 — 112 ratings — published 2013
This Game of Ghosts (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,451 ratings — published 1993
Beastmaking: A fingers-first approach to becoming a better climber (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.40 — 374 ratings — published
Revelations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.38 — 426 ratings — published 2009
The Tower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.31 — 836 ratings — published 2014
Annapurna: A Woman's Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as climbing)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,003 ratings — published 1980
“I felt as though I were plunging into something new and quite abnormal. I had the strangest and most vivid impressions, such as I had never before known in the mountains. There was something unnatural in the way I saw Lachenal and everything around us. I smiled to myself at the paltriness of our efforts, for I could stand apart and watch myself making these efforts. But all sense of exertion was gone, as though there were no longer any gravity. This diaphanous landscape, this quintessence of purity--these were not the mountains I knew: they were the mountains of my dreams (pp.206-207).”
― Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak:
― Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak:
“Because it's there.”
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