 | Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Joe Simpson's incredible account of a climbing trip to the Peruvian Andes which went horribly wrong
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 | Into Thin Air: Personal Account of the Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £0.46 A first-hand account of the tragedy which unfolded on Mount Everest in 1996
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 | A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Picador Books) by Eric Newby
Buy used from: £0.22 The hugely enjoyable tale of Eric Newby's carefree escapade in the Hindu Kush
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 | Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps by Fergus Fleming
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £0.01 A potted history of the Golden Age of mountaineering from a very good writer
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 | Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8000-metre Peak by Maurice Herzog
Buy new: £8.39 / Used from: £4.38 Reads like a boy's own adventure, but Herzog's feat was both remarkable and courageous
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 | The White Spider by Heinrich Harrer
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.94 A detailed history of early expeditions on the Eiger's North Face, by one of the men who first climbed it
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 | The Beckoning Silence by Joe Simpson
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.66 Joe Simpson makes the painful decision to give up climbing, but not before a crack at the north face of the Eiger
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 | Scrambles Amongst the Alps (National Geographic) (National Geographic) by Edward Whymper
Buy used from: £13.30 The alpine career of Edward Whymper included the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1864
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 | Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination by Robert Macfarlane
Buy used from: £1.53 An absorbing and erudite study of what attracts men to climb mountains
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 | Nanda Devi: A Journey to the Last Sanctuary by Hugh Thomson
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £3.00 Not a climbing book in truth, but Hugh Thomson is a gifted writer - read 'The White Rock' too
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 | All 14 Eight-thousanders by Reinhold Messner
Buy new: £17.50 / Used from: £12.00 He stunned the mountaineering world when he climbed Everest solo without oxygen. Respect.
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 | The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W.E. Bowman
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.99 Another classic, this time a brilliant spoof about Binder and his team's expedition to a 40,000-and-a-half foot peak
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