 | Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.20 What happens when commercialism and amateurism combine in the death zone? You probably already know.
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 | High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places by David Breashears
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.07 A great read by an extraordinary climber and filmmaker.
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 | No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks by Ed Viesturs
Buy used from: $0.54 Ed, simply put, is the man. If you want to be an American mountaineer, this is the guy you should model yourself after. Massive respect for Ed!
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 | Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains by Jon Krakauer
Buy used from: $0.55 An excellent compendium of works, covering varied aspects of mountaineering and climbing. Krakauer can write.
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 | Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills by The Mountaineers
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $17.98 This is the bible of mountaineering. Replete with ice climbing, rock climbing, and technical mountain climbing information, this is *the* textbook - if you climb mountains, you own this.
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 | Going Higher: Oxygen Man and Mountains, 5th Ed by Charles Houston
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $10.61 If you're going to be spending time at altitude, there's no reason you shouldn't be informed.
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 | Everest (Large Format)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.85 Filmed in the IMAX format in 1996 by David Breashears (see a pattern here?) This is the film that was finished after the horrible storm on 5/10/96. Beautiful looking.
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 | National Geographic - Everest 50 Years on the Mountain
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $14.17 Great coverage of the history of the mountain, the process of climbing, and the Sherpa people.
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 | On the Ridge Between Life and Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined by David Roberts
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $0.01 Roberts has been around - he is well respected, and this is a pretty good read.
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 | Accidents in North American Mountaineering 2006: Issue 59 by Jed Williamson
Buy new: $8.50 / Used from: $1.03 People demonstrate what *not* to do. Better to read about accidents than repeat the mistake personally.
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 | Climbing Self Rescue: Improvising Solutions for Serious Situations (Mountaineers Outdoor Expert) by Andy Tyson
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $12.99 Save your butt - technical rope rigging is valuable in rock and mountain climbing, as well as ice climbing.
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 | Alpine Climbing: Techniques to Take You Higher (Mountaineers Outdoor Expert) by Mark Houston
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $12.95 Advanced techniques and other training to help in the quest.
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 | Extreme Alpinism: Climbing Light, Fast, and High by Mark F. Twight
Buy new: $25.60 / Used from: $14.73 This got lots of great reviews. Advanced strategy.
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 | Touching the Void
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $1.92 A fantastic documentary covering an amazing mountain rescue.
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 | NOVA - Everest: The Death Zone
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $6.49 I love Nova. This was made in 1997, the year after the tragic events of 'Into Thin Air,' by David Breashears.
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 | NOVA: Deadly Ascent
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $8.50 This time it's off to Denali, to study the effects of altitude and climbing on body temperature and blood oxygen saturation.
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 | NOVA: Mountain of Ice
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $5.93 NOVA rocks - this is a neat show covering a first ascent of a new route on Vinson Massif, another of the seven summits.
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 | Nova - Volcano Above the Clouds: Kilimanjaro, Africa's Tallest Mountain
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $6.76 One of the seven summits, equally spectacular for it's own reasons.
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 | Descent into the Ice - Exploring Mont Blanc's hidden glacial lakes (NOVA)
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $6.00 Rappel into some glaciers - sure, that sounds like fun! These crazy glaciologists crawl into the frozen rivers, searching for secret underground lakes. Craziness.
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