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Climbing High: A Woman's Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy

7 best books like Climbing High: A Woman's Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy (Lene Gammelgaard): Everest: Mountain Without Mercy, The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest, Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season, The Other Side of Everest: Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm, High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places, Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life, Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer

Everest: Mountain Without Mercy
AuthorBroughton Coburn
ISBN0792270142
David Breashears, the first American to scale Everest twice, was a veteran of nine previous Himalayan filmmaking expeditions when he agreed to lead what became his most challenging filmmaking experience. The expedition was organized by large-format motion picture producer MacGillivray Freeman...
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
AuthorAnatoli Boukreev
ISBN0312965338
As the climbers of the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster vanished into thin air, one man had the courage to bring them down alive...

On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by expert leaders attempted to scale the world's largest peak. But things went terribly wrong. Crowded conditions,...
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
AuthorNick Heil
ISBN0805083103
The inside story of the deadly 2006 climbing season on Everest

On May 15, 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit. A week later, Lincoln Hall, a seasoned Australian climber, was...
The Other Side of Everest: Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm
AuthorMatt Dickinson
ISBN0812933400
I guess I keep looking for another Into Thin Air. I remember the experience of reading it for the first time, of literally being unable to put it down, ignoring a large pile of end of term marking and staying up all night. The natural human drama combines with Krakauer's storytelling to form a masterpiece....
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...
Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life
AuthorArlene Blum
ISBN0156031167
A legendary trailblazer, Arlene Blum defied the climbing establishment of the 1970s by leading the first all-female teams on successful ascents of Mount McKinley and Annapurna and by being the first American woman to attempt Mount Everest. At the same time, her groundbreaking scientific work challenged...
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...
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