Best climbing book
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What is your favorite book on climbing/climbing lifestyle? This may have been a thread before but I'm new here |
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Ahhh, there's so many...I really liked Steve House's Beyond the Mountain, being about one of the most hardcore alpinists ever. As far a historic climbing Starlight and Storm by Gaston Rebuffat is awesome |
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Annapurna is so classic! Into Thin Air is also amazing. |
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I'm reading "Scrambles Amongst the Alps" by Whymper. It's great because you see a kindred spirit from a much different age. The engravings are spectacular. |
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Downward Bound', by Warren Harding. Pokes some fun at the first bolting and ethics issues of early 60's. |
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+1 for Into Thin Air |
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Anyone read anything by Messner? |
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While not about any overly extreme mountaineering, Good Morning Midnight by Chip Brown tells a really great story. Another favorite that is High Infatuation by Steph Davis. |
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Are you people kidding me? |
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I loved the climbing of the Matterhorn in "On the Road" :) |
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JJNS wrote:Anyone read anything by Messner?The Naked Mountain - not a great book but an interesting story +1 for Good Morning Midnight as an excellent tangentially related book |
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JJNS wrote:Anyone read anything by Messner?I read a Messner book and thought it was epic. I forget the name but it was a compilation of different stories from different climbs. He talks about wondering around the base of so e peak looking for his dead brother. It was a really good book. I wish I knew the name. Sorry. On another note, I just read The White Spider which is a book about the Eiger. I liked it. |
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+1 for Rum Doodle. I think "Starlight and Storm" is a beautifully written book that even a non climber would enjoy. Its my current favorite. |
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The Self-Coached Climber. |
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High Exposure by David Breashears and Memoirs of a Mountain Guide by Lou Whittaker. |
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"White Spider" is amazing! That is why I climb. |
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"The Shining Mountain" by Peter Boardman |
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The Long Walk |
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Solo Faces by James Salter. A stunningly good novel. |
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra . . . "'I am a wonderer and a mountain climber,' he said to his heart. 'I do not love the plains, and it seems that I cannot sit still for long. And now whatever may come to me as fate and experience - a wandering will be in it and a climbing of mountains: in the end one experiences only oneself.'"
-Friedrich N. |
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No Picnic on Mt. Kenya by F. Benuzzi - probably read that 10-15 times. Such a great story. |