 | Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.67 My personal favourite mountaineering book of all time - a chilling and harrowing story of the tragedies on Everest in May 1996
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 | Annapurna by Maurice Herzog
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $7.99 The most influential mountaineering book ever featuring exploration, the exhilarating summit, and the nightmare descent
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 | Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $1.18 Miraculous survival from a broken leg, falling into a crevasse when his partner cut the rope, and an 8km crawl back to camp
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 | The White Spider by Heinrich Harrer
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.20 Riveting and spellbinding first-hand story of the first ascent of the Eiger Nordwand after several deadly attempts
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 | The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration) by Walter Bonatti
Buy used from: $16.95 Exciting and dangerous alpine climbs by world-famous mountaineer Walter Bonatti, and analysis of the 1954 K2 controversy
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 | Everest: The History of the Himalayan Giant by Roberto Mantovani
Buy used from: $5.30 Spectacular photos of Mount Everest and descriptions of the first ascent attempts and all significant climbs since
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 | K2: Challenging the Sky by Roberto Mantovani
Buy used from: $37.44 Spectacular photos of K2 and descriptions of the first ascent attempts and all significant climbs since
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 | Everest: Alone at the Summit (Adrenaline Classics Series) by Stephen Venables
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $1.18 Excellent photos and an exciting story of the dramatic and dangerous climb of the rarely seen Everest East Kangshung Face
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 | Scrambles Amongst the Alps (National Geographic Adventure Classics) by Edward Whymper
Buy used from: $6.67 Edward Whymper made many first alpine ascents, including the Matterhorn in 1865 which ended in tragedy on the descent
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 | Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine by Jochen Hemmleb
Buy used from: $4.95 The 1999 Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition discovered the well preserved body of George Mallory high on Mount Everest
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 | An Afterclap of Fate: Mallory on Everest by Charles Lind
Buy used from: $51.96 A reconstruction of what George Mallory may have been thinking on his tragic 1924 attempt to climb Mount Everest.
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