Climbing books?

Over the past couple months I have gotten to read a handful of real good climbing books, such as the push, the impossible climb and hangdog says. However I need more!! What other cool climbing books have you all read? Looking for climbing adventure stories, climbing history/lore or recounts of awesome expeditions. 

Gabe Mager wrote: Over the past couple months I have gotten to read a handful of real good climbing books, such as the push, the impossible climb and hangdog says. However I need more!! What other cool climbing books have you all read? Looking for climbing adventure stories, climbing history/lore or recounts of awesome expeditions. 

Search for threads on this already.  It will save you having to wait.  There are recent threads out there that will list every book on climbing ever wrote. 

I just picked up Chasing Denali by Jonathan Waterman for my book club. I haven't started it yet, but it looks interesting!

I recently finished Alone at the Top by Lonnie Dupre. Super good book about his solo winter ascent of Denali. 

Kelly Cordes book on Cerro Torre is pretty sweet

Feeding the Rat by Al Alvarez

Climb v.1 by Chelton and Godfrey is great history of Colorado climbing through the eyes of Boulder climbers.

Climb v.2 by Achey is a great history of Colorado climbing through the eyes of Other Colorado climbers.

Last Man on the Mountain by Jordan is an epic review of the first American expedition on K2

Everest-The West Ridge by Hornbien is the amazing tale of the first American expedition to Everest. 

Dan Cooksey wrote:

Search for threads on this already.  It will save you having to wait.  There are recent threads out there that will list every book on climbing ever wrote. 

But one of my faves is The Calling: a Life Rocked by the Mountains by Barry Blanchard. 

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Camp 4

127 hours. Or at least that's what all my relatives think will make a perfect gift for a climber

Eole ol wrote: Kelly Cordes book on Cerro Torre is pretty sweet

+1 on Kelly's book. Very good. He also co-wrote The Push from all he learned on his time with The Tower. 

Gabe Mager wrote:

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Haha yea. Just type climbing books (or a route if that’s what you were looking for) into the search bar.  All related content, including threads will come up. 

Scrambles Amongst the Alps

Annapurna is Maurice Herzog's memoir of the first successful summit of an 8000er. Maybe more "mountaineering/expedition" than climbing. But its a book ever climber, mountaineer, hiker, etc. should read.

Art of Freedom: The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka by Bernadette McDonald
Beyond the Mountain by Steve House 

Rock Jocks Wall Rats and Hangdogs is a great book 

"In Some Lost Place: The first ascent of Nanga Parbat's Mazeno Ridge" by Sandy Allan is great.

American Climber by Luke Mehall
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If you like older books, this is my favorite:  J. H. B. Bell, A Progress in Mountaineering (1950 but later reprinted as Bell's Scottish Climbs).  Also: W.H. Murray, Mountaineering in Scotland (1947) -- famously written on toilet paper in a World War II POW camp.  He had to rewrite it after his work was discovered and destroyed.  See also Murray's Undiscovered Scotland (1951).  I also upvoted the suggestion made above to read Steve House, Beyond the Mountain, which is excellent.

On the Ridge Between Life and Death - David Roberts. Really well written memoir of a life of climbing for which he experienced 3 fatal accidents before he turned 22. Follows his justification that climbing is worth it even at the risk of death. Same guy that co-authored Alex Honnold's memoir and co-authored several books with John Krakauer.

Minus 148 Degrees - Art Davidson. Documents the tragic 1st winter ascent of Denali where temps reached the lowest ever recorded temperature of -148.

'Climbing Free' by Lynn Hill is a must read.

'The Push' by Tommy Caldwell is a great book.

Anything by David Roberts is also very good. 'Mountain of My Fear / Deborah' is a nice combination of two of his books.

'Savage Summit' is a very good book about K2.

+1 for Tom Hornbein's Everest book.