 | Facing the Frozen Ocean: One man's dream to lead a team across the treacherous North Atlantic by Bear Grylls
Buy new: £4.93 / Used from: £0.94 Completely barking mad - and you may wonder how they survived, but it's a great read.
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 | No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks by Ed Viesturs
Buy used from: £13.73 I have read many mountaineering books, but Ed has to be the guy I would choose to climb with. You feel like you get a sense of who Ed Viesturs really is, and he makes climbing mountains sound so easy
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 | Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long Distance Swimmer by Lynne Cox
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.78 I wasn't sure a book of 336 pages about swimming could keep me interested, but it did, and it's the spirit and accomplishment of such a young woman that keeps you turning the pages.
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 | Into Thin Air: Personal Account of the Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £0.01 Anyone who enjoys reading tales from the world of mountaineering must read this BUT don't make any judgements until you have read all books on the May 1996 tragedy!!
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 | The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev
Buy new: £5.95 / Used from: £2.51 Read this after you have read Into Thin Air. This is Boukreevs response to the criticism he received in Krakauers book.
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 | The White Spider: The story of the North Face of the Eiger by Heinrich Harrer
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £4.21 A mountaineering classic. My first venture into the world of mountaineering and I haven't looked back since.
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