 | Regions of the Heart: The Triumph and Tragedy of Alison Hargreaves by David Rose
Buy used from: £0.01 The first mountaineering book I read - biography of Alison Hargreaves. Good, but a little tedious if you just want the climbing.
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 | Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks
Buy new: £4.81 / Used from: £0.01 A fridge. A man. An unlikely but successful combination! Funny and well written.
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 | Playing the Moldovans at Tennis by Tony Hawks
Buy used from: £0.01 More bizarre stories from the man who shares his name with a skater. Hawks is as likeable and amusing as always.
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 | Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £5.41 / Used from: £0.01 One of my favourite Bryson books. Had me laughing pretty much continuously.
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 | A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 My other favourite Bryson. This first introduced me to hiking, climbing etc. - I loved it.
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 | Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Buy new: £5.84 / Used from: £0.01 I would put all of Simpson's books on. But that would be dull. They're all brilliant, this being the first one I read. Simpson writes like he was born to do it.
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 | The Beckoning Silence by Joe Simpson
Buy used from: £0.04 Put this in as well because it drew together everything I love about Simpson and climbing. Sad in places, but funny and descriptive throughout.
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 | Against the Wall by Simon Yates
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 I read this when Yates featured heavily in 'Touching the Void'. Different style to Simpson, but the climbing description is wonderful.
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 | The Flame of Adventure by Simon Yates
Buy used from: £12.18 Yeah. I whacked this in as well. Read it.
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 | Into Thin Air: Personal Account of the Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £0.01 Krakauer bored me in 'Into the Wild', to be perfectly honest, but this is about ten times better. Excellent, moving account of the '96 storm on Everest.
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