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 Canyoneering: A Guide to Techniques for Wet and Dry Canyons (How To Climb Series)Best Price: $11.09 Overall a nicely illustrated, high quality book, but here's the bottom line: if you already have... |  The Boardman Tasker Omnibus: Savage Arena, the Shining Mountain, Sacred Summits, Everest the Cruel WayBest Price: $25.08 The stories are very touching and good, just it is a huge book and there are too many of them... |  Savage Summit: The Life and Death of the First Women of K2Best Price: $5.33 Savage Summit by Jennifer Jordan is a must read for those who appreciate true-life adventure... |  Breaking Trail: A Climbing LifeBest Price: $4.77 This book became an instant favorite--Arlene Blum's story is amazing. I don't usually like... |  How to Climb: How to Ice Climb!Best Price: $5.75 I am an amateur rock climber interested in pursuing ice climbing. This book presents an overview... |
 Dawson's Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners, Volume 2, the Southern Peaks (Dawson's Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners)Best Price: $20.58 I hiked 6 ( relative easy) fourteeners in the last two weeks using Dawson's guide volume 1 and... |  Better Bouldering (How To Climb Series)Best Price: $4.91 I got this book right after I started bouldering, and I'm so glad I did. Not only is it really... |  Heroic Efforts: The Emotional Culture of Search and Rescue VolunteersBest Price: $21.00 This book is great! The stories are very exciting to read and Lois writes really well - I... |  K2: Triumph and TragedyBest Price: $4.49 This book, which details the tragic summer of 1986 when 13 people died on K2, is a somewhat... |  View from the Summit: The Remarkable Memoir by the First Person to Conquer EverestBest Price: $4.70 Sir Edmund Hillary was clearly a remarkable man with his life marked particularly by the first... |
 A Climber's Guide to the Teton Range Third Edition(Climber's Guide to the Teton Range)Best Price: $22.00 This is the classic guide book for the Tetons. Many pictures and topos are provided to help... |  Cascade Alpine Guide: Climbing and High Routes, Stevens Pass to Rainy Pass (Cascade Alpine Gde)Best Price: $23.05 If you aren't yet familiar with Fred Beckey's Cascade Alpine Guide series (3 volumes) but think... |  Bishop BoulderingBest Price: $32.40 I like to buy guide books to wherever I go, even if a buddy has one. Maybe to donate to the... |  Climbing and Hiking in the Wind River Mountains, 2ndBest Price: $17.27 I bought this book to plan a week-long backpacking trip. It is very similar in concept to... |  Rockhounding Colorado, 2ndBest Price: $6.84 Very well written. Good directions. We are planning a lot of summer trips for next year! |
 Red Rock Canyon: A Climbing Guide (Climbing Guides)Best Price: $23.07 Do not confuse this fire kindle with Red Rocks: A Climber's Guide. I regret buying this book as... |  Sir Edmund Hillary: An Extraordinary LifeBest Price: $10.32 Sir Edmund Hillary, the great mountaineer from New Zealand and Sherpa colleague Tenzing Norgay,... |  A Test of Will: One Man's Extraordinary Story of SurvivalBest Price: $4.35 I had the opportunity to meet Warren at an open house for a climbing facility in our area. After... |  On the Ridge Between Life and Death: A Climbing Life ReexaminedBest Price: $2.34 An introspective recap of a climbing life by a pioneer in the field. Wonderfully written, with... |  Self-Rescue: How to Rock Climb SeriesBest Price: $2.02 The book presents a few scenarios (though not enough) for self rescue but ultimately the author... |
 Rock Climbing Joshua Tree West: Quail Springs to Hidden Valley Campground (Regional Rock Climbing Series)Best Price: $26.48 I went to J-Tree for the first time last week. I bought this book at Nomad Adventures in... |  Knots for Climbers, 2nd (How To Climb Series)Best Price: $2.99 I've read knot books by other authors and this is definitely the "BEST." I highly... |  Mount Everest: Confessions of an Amateur Peak BaggerBest Price: $15.95 This is a fun read book! Even an armchair mountain climber like myself, can experience the ups... |  Free Skiing - How to Adapt to the MountainBest Price: $159.95 |  Selected Climbs in North CarolinaBest Price: $11.09 This is an excellent climbing guide. It includes details for many important routes, and other... |
 Conquistadors of the Useless: From the Alps to AnnapurnaBest Price: $14.12 Lionel Terray was one of the great clasic climbers and this book captures the spirit of those... |  Detectives on Everest: The 2001 Mallory and Irvine Research ExpeditionBest Price: $23.39 I knew very little about the story of Mallory and Irvine and thoroughly enjoyed reading this... |  The Falling Season: Inside the Life and Death Drama of Aspen's Mountain Rescue TeamBest Price: $8.93 The falling season is a tough book to review, since I am involved in SAR work, not in Colorado... |  The Mountains of My Life (Modern Library Exploration)Best Price: $7.98 I ordered this in August. Here it is September 28th and I haven't received it and you are... |  Cascade Alpine Guide: Climbing and High Routes: Vol 1- Columbia River to Stevens Pass (3rd Ed.)Best Price: $23.01 Fred Becky has been know in producing the most comprehensive mountaineering guide books for the... |
 To the Ends of the Earth: Adventures of an Expedition PhotographerBest Price: $11.99 TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: ADVENTURES OF AN EXPEDITION PHOTOGRAPHER tells of the author's passion... |  Keep Climbing: How I Beat Cancer and Reached the Top of the WorldBest Price: $4.85 What an amazing story of sheer determination and beating the odds. Sean Swarner is a tough and... |  Trekking in Tibet: A Traveler's GuideBest Price: $12.25 Bordered by the Himalaya on the south and the Karakoram on the west, Tibet offers trekkers an... |  The Right Mountain: Lessons From Everest On the Real Meaning of SuccessBest Price: $15.67 It has been ten years since I first read Hayhurst's book. What I liked about it then was the... |  Climbing Mt. Shasta: Route 1, Avalanche GulchBest Price: $15.15 This has a lot of helpful ideas and ways to go about climbing up Mt. Shasta for a first... |
 How To Rappel!Best Price: $4.99 I bought this book after my first canyoneering one day course. I wanted to have a book handy to... |  Denali Climbing GuideBest Price: $11.53 An excellent Denali guide if you're thinking about several route choices to research. A great... |  Red River Gorge Rock ClimbsBest Price: $34.20 This is an amazing guide. It is so easy to find approaches with this guide and all the... |  2008 American Alpine Journal: The World's Most Significant ClimbsBest Price: $14.99 This year's American Alpine Journal features Freddie Wilkinson and his all-star partners... |  Ultimate High: My Everest OdysseyBest Price: $62.95 This guy is a total nut - driven beyond all reason - and it finely caught up with him after he... |
 How to Climb: Big Walls (How To Climb Series)Best Price: $5.57 I read this book...did a lot of practicing, (got spanked a few times) and then climbed the... |  The Mountain of My Fear : Deborah : A Wilderness Narrative: Two Mountaineering Classics in One VolumeBest Price: $10.78 If you like mountaineering books, you should like this one. It does have a few interesting... |  Kilimanjaro: To the Roof of Africa (Hardcover)Best Price: $65.00 Entertaining and informative book. The authors command over the language is impressive. I am... |  Rock Climbing the San Francisco Bay Area (Regional Rock Climbing Series)Best Price: $8.99 You have to have this book if you climb in the Bay. |  Rock Climbing UtahBest Price: $18.62 Rock Climbing Utah offers the most comprehensive guide to climbing the best rock Utah has to... |
 A Life on the Edge: Memoirs of Everest and BeyondBest Price: $7.99 We usually cautiously enter a memoir/autobiography work such as this. However, we were... |  Surviving Denali: A Study of Accidents on Mount McKinley 1910-1982Best Price: $11.50 It is easy read, schematic and really gives you an insight on what can happen up there, on your... |  The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo AscentBest Price: $13.93 I agree that Messner's not a writer, but he has done an amazing job of opening up this trip and... |  Mount Whitney: The Complete Trailhead-To-Summit Hiking GuideBest Price: $19.99 As Mt Whitney is the highest peak in the continental US it draws a great variety of hikers,... |  Mt. Shasta Book: Guide to Hiking, Climbing, Skiing & Exploring the Mtn & Surrounding Area (3rd Edition)Best Price: $10.00 An excellent book for the extended community of Mt. Shasta. The topographical map that is ... |
 Kilimanjaro: A Compete Trekker's Guide (Cicerone Mountain Walking)Best Price: $14.10 I was very apprehensive about climbing Kilimanjaro, even though i always wanted to, until i read... |  Epic: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest PeaksBest Price: $1.00 This book is like a sampler box of climbing stories. It's not a bad collection, but in the end... |  Colorado's Indian Peaks, 2nd Edition: Classic Hikes and Climbs (Classic Hikes & Climbs)Best Price: $10.12 As you might expect with a Gerry Roach guide, this one is very good. For those that aren't... |  Mexico's Volcanoes: A Climbing GuideBest Price: $10.07 I am an experienced world traveler and mountain climber who used this book in 1999. I must say,... |  Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest MountainsBest Price: $2.00 My son recommended and bought this book for me. At university studying environmental science he... |
 The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche ZoneBest Price: $3.21 The actual story of the 5 boys would make a good chapter in a book about avalanche disasters.... |  Cicerone Aconcagua: Highest Trek in the World : Practical Information, Preparation and Trekking Routes in the Southern Andes (Cicerone British Mountains)Best Price: $13.72 This is a complete guide to climbing Aconcagua, highest peak in South America at 6962m, the... | |||
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