Everest: The West Ridge

6 best books like Everest: The West Ridge (Thomas F. Hornbein): The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest, Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest, The Mountain of My Fear / Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative, Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season, No Way Down: Life and Death on K2, Ascent Into Hell

The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

Author	Anatoli Boukreev
ISBN	0312965338

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,...

Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest

Author	Lincoln Hall
ISBN	1585426466

Lincoln Hall's breathtaking account of surviving a night in Everest's "death zone."

Lincoln Hall likes to say that on the evening of May 25, 2006, he died on Everest. Indeed, Hall attempted to climb the mountain during a deadly season in which eleven people perished. And he was, in fact, pronounced...

The Mountain of My Fear / Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative

Author	David Roberts
ISBN	0898862701

How rare to find a true climber and explorer who can actually write! The two novel pairing reissued by the Mountaineers in single book, contrasts David Roberts’s writing styles in bold ways. Both were engaging and enthralling. However, one is a rapid recounting of a successful summit with a tragic...

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

Author	Nick Heil
ISBN	0805083103

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...

No Way Down: Life and Death on K2

Author	Graham Bowley
ISBN	0061834785

In the tradition of Into Thin Air and Touching the Void, No Way Down by New York Times reporter Graham Bowley is the harrowing account of the worst mountain climbing disaster on K2, second to Everest in height... but second to no peak in terms of danger. From tragic deaths to unbelievable stories of heroism...

Ascent Into Hell

Author

Fergus White

There is but one aim: the summit, the summit of Mount Everest.

What starts with a trouble-free trek into the Nepalese highlands explodes into a gripping tale of hardship, peril, and adversity. Pushed beyond their physical and mental limits, climbers drop by the wayside. Their primal instincts...