 | Chomolungma Sings the Blues: Travels Round Everest (Travel Literature) by Ed Douglas
Buy new: $40.00 / Used from: $3.34 The most wonderful book on Chomolungma (Everest). Not just about mountaineering but the cultural and social aspects of mountaineering. "Why do it?"
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 | Fragile Edge: A Personal Portrait of Loss on Everest by Maria Coffey
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $2.52 Dealing with personal loss on Everest and how mountaineering affects the partners of the adventurers. Personal and affecting.
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 | Life and Death on Mt. Everest by Sherry B. Ortner
Buy used from: $1.63 Serious study of Sherpas and their role in the Everest industry.
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 | Everest : Mountain Without Mercy by Broughton Coburn
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $0.62 Superbly produced. Never seen better photos of the Big E
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 | High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2 (Adrenaline)
Buy new: $15.25 / Used from: $0.01 Thrills a-plenty
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 | Everest: the Ultimate Hump by Tami Knight
Buy used from: $0.24 The tongue-in-cheek irreverence Everest has been waiting for.
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 | The Other Side of Everest: Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm by Matt Dickinson
Buy used from: $0.01 Another gripping read about 1996 events - what was happening on the north face as Krakauer and Boukreev were living their books on the south face?
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 | Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine by Jochen Hemmleb
Buy used from: $0.47 Special book about a special expedition. Beautifully produced
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 | Annapurna: A Woman's Place (20th Anniversary Edition) by Arlene Blum
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.33 Well worth reading to discover expedition mountaineering from women's points of view. Mountaineering is not all Boys' Own Adventures. Seriously scary avalanche territory.
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 | Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Buy used from: $0.01 Now a classic Everest book. To pretend to understand Everest you need to read this and Boukreev's The Climb.
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 | The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Do the fair thing to Boukreev's memory and read his account of the 96 disaster as well as Krakaeur's
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 | Climbing High: A Woman's Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy by Lene Gammelgaard
Buy used from: $1.60 Self-serving psycho-babble; another account of the '96 disaster. I wanted to like it, but didn't.
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 | View from the Summit: The Remarkable Memoir by the First Person to Conquer Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary
Buy new: $13.45 / Used from: $0.47 Reasonably interesting account of two amazing feats: Everest climb and South Pole by tractor. Can get a bit boring, and turning a few pages won't make you miss much!
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 | Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest by Jamling T. Norgay
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $0.01 Krakauer calls this one of the best books on 1996 Everest. Best feature is the Sherpa story and Buddhist spirituality concerning Chomolungma. Well worth reading.
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 | Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest by Beck Weathers
Buy used from: $0.64 People are NOT meant to be hauling themselves into death zones! Weathers did, nearly died, but lived to tell us the tale. Quite brutally honest and confronting answers to the WHY question.
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 | Everest (Large Format)
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $4.85 The best mountaineering film I've seen. I did see it on the big, big screen, and sure, it looks "smaller" on TV screen ... but it is such a "big" story, it can't help being impressive.
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 | Beyond the Limits: A Woman's Triumph on Everest by Stacy Allison
Buy used from: $0.04 Boys Own Mountaineering from a woman's perspective. Fascinating.
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 | Coronation Everest by Jan Morris
Buy used from: $0.55 The mechanics of reporting on the first successful Everest climb are fascinating.
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