The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier
10 best books like The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier (Jim Davidson): The Naked Mountain, Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest, The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest, The Other Side of Everest: Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm, Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine, Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain, Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life, Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer, Dark Shadows Falling, True Summit: What Really Happened on the Legendary Ascent on Annapurna
* Did Reinhold Messner sacrifice his brother to his ambition?
* Publication of this book in Germany stirred controversy across Europe
* The most personal book Messner has ever written
* More than 45,000 copies sold of the German edition
Reinhold Messner is famous for many firsts:...
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 Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest
| Author | Conrad Anker |
| ISBN | 0684871521 |
On June 8, 1924, George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared somewhere near the summit of Mount Everest, leaving open the tantalizing question of whether they had reached the summit of Everest twenty-nine years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. In 1999, climber Conrad Anker discovered...
The Other Side of Everest: Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm
| Author | Matt Dickinson |
| ISBN | 0812933400 |
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....
| Author | Peter Firstbrook |
| ISBN | 0809298929 |
I have always been interested in the history of climbing Mt. Everest. It started when I was a young boy and read the story of the first successful summit in 1953 by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. That led me to more reading of the mountains history and I discovered the great story and mystery of George...
Savage Summit: The True Stories of the First Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain
| Author | Jennifer Jordan |
| ISBN | 0060587156 |
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...
| Author | Arlene Blum |
| ISBN | 0156031167 |
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
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...
| Author | Joe Simpson |
| ISBN | 0898865905 |
* Concise, objective account of the 1996 Everest debacle
* One of Simpson's most controversial and challenging books
* Short listed for the 1997 Boardman Tasker Award
In 1992, an Indian climber was left to die alone high on the South Col of Mount Everest by other climbers who watched...
True Summit: What Really Happened on the Legendary Ascent on Annapurna
| Author | David Roberts |
| ISBN | 0743203275 |
In a startling look at the classic Annapurna -- the most famous book about mountaineering -- David Roberts discloses what really happened on the legendary expedition to the Himalayan peak. In June 1950, a team of mountaineers was the first to conquer an 8,000-meter peak. Maurice Herzog, the leader...
Mountain Madness: Scott Fischer, Mount Everest & a Life Lived on High
| Author | Robert Birkby |
| ISBN | 0806528753 |
Životopisný príbeh Scotta Fischera písaný jeho priateľom Robertom Birkbym. Fischer je pre väčšinu ľudí známy ako jeden z tragédie na Evereste z roku 1996. Birkby osvetľuje jeho život pred tragédiou pomocou vlastných spomienok, kníh, článkov i spomienok iných ľudí zo...
| Author | Jennifer Lowe-Anker |
| ISBN | 1594850828 |
* 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...
| Author | Mireya Mayor |
| ISBN | 1426207212 |
A quick examination of her roots, and one may never have guessed that Mireya Mayor would become the woman she is today. Yet, against all odds, this self-professed former "girly girl" daughter of overprotective Cuban immigrants blossomed from NFL cheerleader to Fulbright Scholar to field scientist...
| Author | Colin Angus |
| ISBN | 0767912802 |
From the Yenisey’s headwaters in the wild heart of central Asia to its mouth on the Arctic Ocean, Colin Angus and his fellow adventurers travel 5,500 kilometres of one of the world’s most dangerous rivers through remotest Mongolia and Siberia, and live to tell about it.
Exploration is...
| Author | Jim Curran |
| ISBN | 0395485908 |
K2 is the second highest mountain in the world, at 8611 metres only a couple of hundred metres lower than Everest and is one of the most unrelenting and testing of the worlds 8000-metre peaks.
Jim Curran came to K2 as a climbing cameraman with an unsuccessful British expedition, but stayed on...
Addicted to Danger: A Memoir
| Author | Jim Wickwire |
| ISBN | 0671019910 |
Adventurist Jim Wickwire, an eyewitness to glory and terror above 20,000 feet, has braved bitter cold, blinding storms, and avalanches to become what the Los Angeles Times calls "one of America's most extraordinary and accomplished high-altitude mountaineers." Although his incredible exploits...
Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters
| Author | James M. Tabor |
| ISBN | 0393061744 |
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...
One Mountain Thousand Summits: The Untold Story Tragedy and True Heroism on K2
| Author | Freddie Wilkinson |
| ISBN | 0451231198 |
In one of the most deadly events in Himalayan climbing, 11 climbers died on K2 in August, 2008. In One Mountain Thousand Summits: The Untold Story Tragedy and True Heroism on K2, climber and writer Freddie Wilkinson captures the details of this event. This gripping tale is based on interviews with the...
The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak
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...
