 | Extreme Alpinism by Mark Twight
Buy new: £15.26 / Used from: £11.74 Shows you that you have to think to climb, be passionate to climb, be strong to climb
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 | Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber by Mark Twight
Buy new: £8.85 / Used from: £6.60 Never has it been more truly said that you'll either love it or hate it- it's about passion. I defy anyone to be not moved my this.
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 | Ice World: Techniques and Experiences of Modern Ice Climbing by Jeff Lowe
Buy new: £12.95 / Used from: £3.50 Lowe's love of climbing shines through
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 | Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Buy new: £5.84 / Used from: £0.01 Can't really not have this one in
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 | Peak Gritstone: East (Rock Fax) by Chris Craggs
Buy used from: £21.99 Go climb that Eastern Grit (a decoy to keep you off the Western Grit!)
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 | More Climbing Anchors (How to Rock Climb) by John Long
Buy used from: £3.24 Again, I like this one because it makes you think about what you do, not a slavish list of 'do this and do that' like 90% of technical guides
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 | The Long Routes : Mountaineering Rock Climbs in Snowdonia and the Lake District by Robin Ashcroft
Buy used from: £3.17 Some beautiful routes, almost inspired me to get out of my armchair. None above HS
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 | The Adventure Alternative by Colin Mortlock
The first five chapters give a brilliant philosophy of climbing, after he goes a bit off route. Gives a good answer to the perennial why do you climb moutains?
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 | Patagonia: Notes from the Field
Buy used from: £22.59 Some fine words on the subject of it all
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 | The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library) by Walter Bonatti
Buy used from: £24.33 A legend writes
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