Mountaineering/alpine literature suggestions

Much more fun asking than Googling. Anyone suggest an adrenaline rushing non-fiction book on mountaineering history (think Annapurna or Ed Viesturs books, etc)? Hermann Buhl stories? Fritz Weissner stories?

One for you: "to points unknown" edited by david roberts. The titles something very close to that. Its "short stories" from the greatest adventure writing of the 20th century. It has noel odell, krakauers(?) Story of his solo attempt of the devils thumb and many great other stories.

Thank you

Maybe not adrenaline rushing, but Roberts' "On the ridge..." is good, as are all his books that I've read any of. Moments of Doubt, if you can find it.
American Rock by Don Mellor, too. Again, perhaps not intense, but well written history.

beyond the mountain, addicted to danger, confessions of a serial climber, over the edge. I have more but cant remember them

Thanks guys. I've written your suggestions down. Portwood I think you've lied on your profile: my moms a lesbian dude. You weren't at her house last night. Not cool to lie...thanks again guys!

+1 for beyond the mountain.

Andy Kirkpatrick's 'Cold Wars' will have you alternating between clutching your butt cheeks in terror and spitting your coffee out with laughter.

'Fiva' by Gordon Stainforth is another excellent book detailing a major epic he had climbing in the shadow of the Troll Wall in Norway in the 60s. I read this book in two long sittings, I couldn't put the dan thing down!

The Mountain of My Fear and Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative by David Roberts are awesome

Minus 148 by Art Davidson is a great one too

Smarty ports I love your picture. There are a lot more books than I thought out there! I'm an avid reader and blown away at my future reading list. Thanks guys. If you have more keep them coming. Ill most likely eventually get to a huge chunk. I'm not interested in many other subjects besides climbing and human genetics/history.

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by david roberts was another of his i really liked that hasn't been mentioned.

How can david roberts write so much and do all that bad ass climbing? I can't even handle climbing and yard work. Its one or the other!

Anyone read pat aments "master of rock" about john gill. if so your thoughts?

Climb!
Enduring Patagonia by Gregory Crouch
The Hard Way - Mark Jenkins
On the Ridge Between Life and Death
Good Morning Midnight - The Story of Guy Waterman
Yankee Rock and Ice by Guy and Laura Waterman
Psychovertical by Andy Kirkpatrick
Kiss or Kill by Mark Twight
Beyond The Mountain by House
Desert Towers by "Crusher"
The Stettner Way (the biography of the Stettner Brothers

If you're looking for exciting reading then Joe Simpson's Touching the Void should be close to the top of your list.

One of the most amazing books I've read is Glenn Randall's Breaking Point.

Three climbers set out to make the first alpine style ascent (and second overall ascent) of Mount Hunter's SW Spur in Alaska.

They set out with six days of food and ended up taking 13 days, barely surviving.

The amount of suffering they endured is mindblowing.
The book is very hard to find, and worth a pretty penny, but if you can find it, read it!

Smarty Ports/Shants wrote:^^Reading Kirkpatrick's "Pscycho Vertical" now. It's not bad but so far not classic. Also Tabin and Mellor deserve mention. Got the new Dawes book on the way. Should be amusing for sure.

Psychovertical is a good shout too, more scary big wall antics. Personally, I enjoyed Cold Wars more as I could relate to more of it where as aid climbing might as well be Olympic knitting or something.

Dawes' book is good but you need to approach it with an open mind, it's a bit 'out there'. Worth sticking with though for all the history and an insight in to a great climbing mind.

Jim Wickwire, Addicted to Danger.

A. Alvarez, Feeding the Rat (not too adrenaline rushy)

Vladimir Shatayev, Degrees of Difficulty. (Some really great stories in there, never look up when you hear someone yell ROCK!)

oh.. and not strictly climbing... but lots of good adventure climbing underground...

Pierre Chevalier, Subterranean Climbers (Nothing like climbing in a cave in France during the war! Petzl and Chevalier can hang it out there like nobodies business.

The Stoned Master wrote: krakauers(?) Story of his solo attempt of the devils thumb and many great other stories. Thank you

If you liked Devil's Thumb, you will like Krakauer's Eiger Dreams. That's the collection of stories in which it originally appeared. (Though Devil's Thumb is probably the best story in there.)

"Mirrors in the Cliffs" and "The Games Climbers Play" are two excellent anthologies.

If you can find a copy, "Four Against Everest" is the story of a very early attempt of the north side of Everest by four rather unlikely climbers.

"The White Spider."
"Storm and Sorrow in the High Parmirs."
'Annapurna"
"In the Throne Room Of The Mountain Gods"
"The Hall of the Mountain King"
"The Last Place on Earth"

Everest, The West Ridge, by Thomas Hornbein.
A real classic.

The Karakoram, Fosco Mariani

The Beckoning Silence by Joe Simpson