 | Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Buy new: £5.84 / 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: £5.36 / Used from: £0.01 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: £0.01 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: £7.46 / 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: £7.38 / Used from: £3.39 Reads like a boy's own adventure, but Herzog's feat was both remarkable and courageous
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 | The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger: The story of the North Face of the Eiger by Heinrich Harrer
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £4.13 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: £5.91 / Used from: £0.01 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 in the years 1860-69 by Edward Whymper
Buy used from: £33.78 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: £0.01 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: £8.09 / Used from: £1.64 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: £18.60 / Used from: £15.03 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: £5.98 / Used from: £0.97 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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