30 Best

Mountaineering Books

1

Thin Air

2

Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak

3

Summit

4

The Calling: A Life Rocked by Mountains

5

Walking The Himalayas

6

On the Edge: The Art of High-Impact Leadership

7

Alpine Warriors

8

Extreme Eiger: The Race to Climb the Eiger Direct (Legends and Lore)

9

A Woman's Place Is at the Top: A Biography of Annie Smith Peck, Queen of the Climbers

10

The Death Zone: Murder on Mount Everest

11

Art of Freedom: The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka

12

One Day as a Tiger: Alex MacIntyre and the Birth of Light and Fast Alpinism

13

The Tower: A Chronicle of Climbing and Controversy on Cerro Torre

14

The Storms: Adventure and tragedy on Everest

15

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

16

Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

17

The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

18

Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains

19

Annapurna

20

No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks

21

K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain

22

Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season

23

Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day

24

The White Spider

25

Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest

26

Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain

27

Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest

28

High Crimes: the Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed

29

High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places