 | 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 truly, stunningly good read. I just want to go and look at it now.
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 | Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Buy new: £5.84 / Used from: £0.01 The author is my inspiration as an armchair mountaineer
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 | Into Thin Air: Personal Account of the Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £0.01 If you read this one, you must read the next one as well.....
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 | The Death Zone: Climbing Everest Through the Killer Storm by Matt Dickinson
Buy new: £5.81 / Used from: £0.01 and then you really should read the next one as well by which time
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 | The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev
Buy new: £5.95 / Used from: £2.43 you will then have seen the same experience from three very different perspectives.
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 | The Beckoning Silence by Joe Simpson
Buy new: £5.91 / Used from: £0.01 In my view (limited by my armchair) the best of the rest from the pen of Joe Simpson
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 | Against the Wall by Simon Yates
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Some don't like his style, but I found this to be a good read.
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 | Ghosts of Everest: The Only Authorized Story of the Se: The Authorised Story of the Search for Mallory and Irvine by Jochen Hemmleb
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Was this expedition really necessary? You read and decide.
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 | Coronation Everest by Jan Morris
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.99 An account of that all important first sumit success on Everest
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 | The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £4.71 Not a mountaineering book, but just as cold and frightening. Well worth the read.
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