Browsing: Mountaineering

Biographies and Memoirs

A Higher Calling

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In this uplifting USA Today bestseller, a married couple tells how they set out to climb Mount Everest — only to reach new heights of love, faith, and commitment. “Stirring… Intense adventure and sincere emotion” (Publishers Weekly starred review).

Astronomy

The Sky Below

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In this insider perspective on space exploration with over 1,500 five-star ratings on Goodreads, a NASA astronaut recounts his adventures, including seven space walks and a life-threatening Mount Everest summit. This “down-to-earth discourse mingles the ordinary with the extraordinary” (Booklist).

Adventure Travel

Classic Krakauer

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From a Mt. Everest avalanche to a sadistic wilderness therapy program, see the world through the eyes of the revered author of Into the Wild in this must-read collection of his classic articles and essays. “Krakauer is a masterly writer and reporter” (The New York Times Book Review).

Biographies and Memoirs

Alive

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In 1972, a Uruguayan rugby team crash-landed in the Andes, facing freezing cold and certain starvation. Their harrowing story of survival is documented in this chilling New York Times bestseller with over 25,500 five-star ratings on Goodreads.

Action and Adventure

No Shortcuts to the Top

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In this riveting New York Times bestseller, the first American to climb the 14 tallest mountains on Earth tells his “compelling story of dedication, desperation, danger, derring-do, and devotion” (Booklist). With over 2,200 five-star ratings on Goodreads.

Action and Adventure

No Way Down

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Fans of Into Thin Air will be enthralled by this true story of courage and chaos atop one of the world’s tallest mountains. In 2008, eight international climbing teams ascended the peak of K2 — but a horrifying, unforeseen disaster would plunge them into a fight for their lives…