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Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life

10 best books like Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life (Arlene Blum): Crystal Horizon: Everest: The First Solo Ascent, Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther than the Eye Can See, Climbing High: A Woman's Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy, High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places, Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain, Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer, Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber, Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure, Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World, Everest the hard way

Crystal Horizon: Everest: The First Solo Ascent
AuthorReinhold Messner
ISBN0898865743
On August 20, 1980, Reinhold Mesner reached the summit of Everest alone and without the use of oxygem. His vivid account of this extraordinary achievement forms the core of "The Crystal Horizon." Messner describes with passion his journey through Tibet, a mysterious country of snow peaks, ruined...
Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther than the Eye Can See
AuthorErik Weihenmayer
ISBN0452282942
Erik Weihenmayer was born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder that would leave him blind by the age of thirteen. But Erik was determined to rise above this devastating disability and lead a fulfilling and exciting life.

In this poignant and inspiring memoir, he shares his struggle...
Climbing High: A Woman's Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy
AuthorLene Gammelgaard
ISBN0060953616
On May 10, 1996, Lene Gammelgaard became the first Scandinavian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. But a raging storm and human error conspired to turn triumph into catastrophe. Eight of her team's climbers, including its renowned leader Scott Fischer, perished in a tragedy that would make...
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places
AuthorDavid Breashears
ISBN0684865459
For generations of resolute adventurers, from George Mallory to Sir Edmund Hillary to Jon Krakauer, Mount Everest and the world's other greatest peaks have provided the ultimate testing ground. But the question remains: Why climb? In High Exposure, elite mountaineer and acclaimed Everest filmmaker...
Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain
AuthorJennifer Jordan
ISBN0060587156
Though not as tall as Everest, the "Savage Mountain" is far more dangerous. Located on the border of China and Pakistan, K2 has some of the harshest climbing conditions in the world. Ninety women have scaled Everest but of the six women who reached the summit of K2, three lost their lives on the way back...
Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer
AuthorAnatoli Boukreev
When Anatoli Boukreev died on the slopes of Annapurna on Christmas day, 1997, the world lost one of the greatest adventurers of our time.

In Above the Clouds, both the man and his incredible climbs on Mt. McKinley, K2, Makalu, Manaslu, and Everest-including his diary entries on the infamous...
Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber
AuthorMark Twight
ISBN0898868874
2001 Banff Mountain Literature Award Winner

Mark Twight's collected works, some never before published in North America Includes dramatic black and white mountaineering photos Features brand new epilogues to all of the stories They call him Dr. Doom.

Raving and kicking against...
Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure
AuthorMaria Coffey
ISBN0312339011
Without risk, say mountaineers, there would be none of the self-knowledge that comes from pushing life to its extremes. For them, perhaps, it is worth the cost. But when tragedy strikes, what happens to the people left behind? Why would anyone choose to invest in a future with a high-altitude risk-taker?...
Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World
AuthorLynn Hill
ISBN0393324338
From the age of thirteen when she began climbing, it was clear Lynn Hill had an unusual gift. Before long she was arguably the best rock climber in the world, establishing routes so bold and difficult that few others could follow. And in 1994, Lynn succeeded on a climb that no one—man or woman—has been...
Everest the hard way
AuthorChris Bonington
ISBN0340208333
When Chris Bonington and his team set out in August 1975 to climb the South West face of Everest they were attempting the ultimate challenge of mountaineering - to conquer the steepest and highest face in the world. Two months later, overcoming daunting physical conditions and massive psychological...
Forget Me Not: A Memoir
AuthorJennifer Lowe-Anker
ISBN1594850828

* A personal account of one of the greatest losses in the climbing world
* An elegant and gripping story of tragedy, as well as unexpected joy
* An entree into the emotional world of climbers and their families
* Benefits the Nepal-based Khumbu Climbing School
In 1999 Jennifer Lowe's...
Be Brave, Be Strong: A Journey Across the Great Divide
AuthorJill Homer
Jill is an unassuming recreational cyclist who has about as much in common with Lance Armstrong as she does with Michael Jordan. But despite her perceived athletic mediocrity, the newspaper editor from Alaska harbors an outlandish ambition: the "world's toughest mountain bike race," a 2,740-mile...
Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska
AuthorMiranda Weiss
ISBN0061710253
Alaska is a place where know-how is currency and a novice's mistakes can kill you. An extreme landscape in both its beauty and challenges, the state is nicknamed "The Last Frontier" with good reason: Here is a paradoxical landscape where boundaries—between community and isolation, bounty and deprivation,...
A Mile in Her Boots: Women Who Work in the Wild
AuthorJennifer Bove
ISBN1932361375
The stories in this remarkable collection detail the experiences of women who work in a variety of outdoor professions including smoke jumping, river running, professional falconry, and horse packing. A celebration of women making their way in the wild, the stories in these pages include rescuing...
River House
AuthorSarahlee Lawrence
ISBN0982569130
An exquisite blend of memoir and nature writing, River House is the story of a young woman returning home to her family’s ranch and building a log house with the help of her father. An avid river rafter, Sarahlee Lawrence grew up in remote central Oregon and, by the age of twenty-one, had rafted some of...
Tiger of the snows: The Autobiography of Tenzing of Everest
AuthorTenzing Norgay
Tenzing Norgay was one of the first two men to set foot on the summit of Everest, along with Edmund Hillary, in 1953. In 1952, Tenzing had co-pioneered the upper part of the Southeast Ridge, leading to the summit, with the great Swiss climber Raymond Lambert, but when he and Hillary reached the summit in...
A Long Trek Home: 4,000 Miles by Boot, Raft and Ski
AuthorErin McKittrick
ISBN1594850933
The adventures of a young, idealistic couple who choose to reduce their world down to just two small packs and the next 100 yards in front of them.
In June 2007, Erin McKittrick and her husband, Hig, embarked on a 4,000-mile expedition from Seattle to the Aleutian Islands, traveling solely by human...
A Life on the Edge: Memoirs of Everest and Beyond
AuthorJim Whittaker
ISBN1594856664
There have been many "firsts" in Jim Whittaker's life. He was the first North American to summit Mount Everest. As the first manager and employee, and ultimately the CEO, of fledgling Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI), he guided the company through years of record-setting growth. He guided Bobby...
Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters
AuthorJames M. Tabor
ISBN0393061744
Ten days passed with no rescue attempt, while more than half an expedition was stranded and dying at 20,000 feet during a vicious Arctic storm. The bodies were never recovered. And, for reasons that have remained cloudy, there was no proper official investigation of the catastrophe.This book begins...
The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak
AuthorEd Viesturs
The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna- - The World's Most Deadly Peak Book Description Ed Viesturs has contributed to The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna- - The World's Most Deadly Peak as an author.ED VIESTURS still climbs...
On the Ridge Between Life and Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined
AuthorDavid Roberts
ISBN0743255186
By the time David Roberts turned twenty-two, he had been involved in three fatal mountain climbing accidents and had himself escaped death by the sheerest of luck.

At age eighteen, Roberts witnessed the death of his first climbing partner in Boulder, Colorado. A few years later, he was the...
The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation
AuthorClint Willis
ISBN0786715790
The Boys of Everest tells the story of a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent. It is a story of tremendous courage, astonishing achievement and heart-breaking loss. Their leader was the boyish, fanatically driven Chris Bonington....
High Infatuation: A Climber's Guide to Love and Gravity
AuthorSteph Davis
ISBN1594850658

* A collection of vivid, intimate essays and prose poetry on the universal themes of life, love, friendship, personal empowerment, and more, told through a career in climbing
* 40 percent of these pieces debut here for the first time
* Davis has been profiled in publications including...
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