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Audiobooks

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Jared Casper · · Scotts Valley, CA · Joined Feb 2006 · Points: 10

I tend to do a lot of my "reading" listening to audiobooks while training and love to listen to mountaineering/climbing books, but am starting to run out.  So the recent revival of another book recommendation thread gave me the idea to ask what climbing/mountaineering related books have audio versions that people have enjoyed.

My list so far (in no particular order):

  • Alone on the Wall - Alex Honnold, David Roberts
  • The Push - Tommy Caldwell
  • Beyond the Mountain - Steve House
  • The Calling: A Life Rocked by Mountains - Barry Blanchard
  • K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain - Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
  • The Will to Climb - David Roberts, Ed Viesturs
  • No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks - Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
  • Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration - David Roberts
  • Denali's Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak - Andy Hall
  • Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster - Jon Krakauer
  • Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains - Jon Krakauer
... and I just now realized putting this list together how much David Roberts I've listened to. Looks like he's got some more books in audio format I might try out next.
Dan Cooksey · · Pink Ford Thunderbird · Joined Jan 2014 · Points: 365

Well I popped in to drop recommendations but you already got the ones I was going to suggest!

Not directly related to climbing but maybe check out “The Rise of The Super Human” by Steven Kotler.  There is a pretty cool chapter in there about the pyschological approach Dean Potter took to climbing and life. 

Derek Ehrnschwender · · Cambridge, MA · Joined May 2015 · Points: 45

Resurrecting this, Mark Synnott's recently released The Third Pole has an audio version. Solid read.

Ccard257 · · Fort Worth, TX · Joined Jul 2007 · Points: 0

Dead mountain by Donnie Eichar was an interesting one about the Dyatlov Pass Incident somewhat related to the OP recommendations

rocknice2 · · Montreal, QC · Joined Nov 2006 · Points: 3,847

On the Nose - Hans Florine

The Impossible Climb - Mark Synnott

Touching the Void - Joe Simpson

Sam D · · CA · Joined Apr 2017 · Points: 167

Mastermind - Jerry Moffat

Revelations - Jerry Moffat 

Vertical Mind - Don McGrath, Jeff Elison

Hangdog Days - Jeff Smoot

Endurance - Alfred Lansing  (not climbing but an incredible Antarctic expedition story) 

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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