Mountaineering Books


Red Rock Canyon: A Climbing Guide (Climbing Guides) Best Price: $17.50 Do not confuse this fire kindle with Red Rocks: A Climber's Guide. I regret buying this book as...	Eric Shipton: The Six Mountain-Travel Books Best Price: $25.37 Eric Shipton's career as a climber and explorer spanned some five decades, from his...	Climb: Stories of Survival from Rock, Snow and Ice Best Price: $0.95 This is a great compilation of climbing stories. Some are inspiring while others will make you...	50 Hikes in Colorado: The Front Range, the Central Mountains, the San Juans, and the Western Canyons Best Price: $10.10 This all-new guide to hiking Colorado's trails includes the Eastern Plains, the Front Range, the...	Rock Climbing Arizona Best Price: $12.69 Rock Climbing Arizona describes 20 of the state's major climbing areas, guiding traveling...



Fifty Favorite Climbs: The Ultimate North American Tick List Best Price: $20.44 One more book for armchair climbers. It's a good book, but it's basically useless to the real...	GregDavenport's Advanced Outdoor Navigation: Basics and Beyond Best Price: $3.95 I consider this book to be one of my greatest waste of time and money to date. By the title one...	The Altitude Experience: Successful Trekking and Climbing Above 8,000 Feet (How to Climb Series) Best Price: $13.57 This book is a comprehensive, practical resource for travelers, trekkers, and climbers who are...	Virginia Climber's Guide Best Price: $5.97 General information is bland. Descriptions of routes sketchy at best. The parts dealing with...	Longs Peak: The Story Of Colorado's Favorite Fourteener Best Price: $18.94 If you plan to climb Longs, have climbed it, wish you could climb it, love visiting the area,...



The Rescue Season: The Heroic Story of Parajumpers on the Edge of the World Best Price: $1.99 Drury knows his subject well and takes you on an up close and personal journey into Alaska and...	Flatiron Classics: Easy Rock Climbs Above Boulder (Colorado Mountain Club Guidebooks) Best Price: $10.99	Wilderness First Aid, Third Edition: Emergency Care for Remote Locations (Wilderness First Aid: Emergency Care for Remote Locations) Best Price: $16.49 Wilderness First Aid: Emergency Care for Remote Locations, Third Edition provides information on...	Mountain Biking the Hawaiian Islands This book really helped me on all my rides in Hawaii. Best of all, the book had sections on all...	Rappelling, Edition II Best Price: $14.95 Tom Marting came to my house one summer day fifteen years ago, and spent some time photographing...

Climbing California's Fourteeners: The Route Guide to the Fifteen Highest Peaks Best Price: $10.99 Very good comprehensive guide. As with any climbing guidebook it is difficult to tell exactly...	The Rock Warrior's Way: Mental Training for Climbers It's a great book once you get into it. I have found myself so busy with climbing this season...	The Backpacker's Handbook, 2nd Edition Best Price: $4.15 This was an very useful book after I got hooked on backpacking. Specifically, the sections on...	Mount Whitney: The Complete Trailhead-To-Summit Hiking Guide As Mt Whitney is the highest peak in the continental US it draws a great variety of hikers,...	Colorado Fourteeners Grand Slam This photographic review of Colorado's official Fourteeners is well worth hunting for. I'm sorry...

Don Nehlen's Tales from the West Virginia Sideline Best Price: $5.48 The book is excellent. Don is a friend of mine and it is like he is sitting across the table...	On Top of the World: Five Women Explorers in Tibet Best Price: $4.95 I have to congratulate Luree Miller who bought the stories of these five women to my attention....	Bradford Washburn: An Extraordinary Life: The Autobiography of a Mountaineering Icon Best Price: $16.97 Bradford Washburn led a super extra-extraordinary life as one of America's greatest mountain...	Glacier National Park and Waterton Lakes National Park: A Complete Recreation Guide Just got back from GNP and used this book extensively for hikes. Great descriptions and format...	Teton Classics, 2nd: 50 Selected Climbs in Grand Teton National Park Best Price: $12.38 Route finding in the Tetons can be difficult. Richards topo + text book of the classic climbs...

A Climbing Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners: Twentieth Anniversary Edition This book is the definitive guide to Colorado 14ers. There are newer, flashier books available,...	Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain Best Price: $20.70 I read the original in Chinese years ago, but hardly remembering the storyline, I turned...	Everest: Expedition to the Ultimate Best Price: $13.99 In this mountaineering classic, Messner recounts the thoughts of a mountaineer during the climb...	Advanced Rockcraft Page seven. The introduction. "...I must warn the reader not to expect much from this...	Surviving Denali: A Study of Accidents on Mount McKinley 1910-1982 Best Price: $11.75 It is easy read, schematic and really gives you an insight on what can happen up there, on your...

Doctor on Everest: Emergency Medicine at the Top of the World - A Personal Account of the 1996 Disaster Best Price: $6.95 It takes a big ego to climb Mount Everest -- and Kenneth Kamler definitely qualifies. He's not...	Backcountry Avalanche Awareness Best Price: $3.93 This is an excellent book, certainly the best book I've seen for basic recreational avalanche...	Going Higher: Oxygen Man and Mountains, 5th Ed Best Price: $14.88 This is the fifth edition of "Going Higher", now revised and expanded by Dr Houston...	Good Morning Midnight Best Price: $3.50 This book is great. I literally could not put it down. A great insight to what might go on...	Facing The Extreme: One Woman's Story Of True Courage And Death-Defying Survival In The Eye Of Mt. McKinley's Worst Storm Ever Best Price: $25.74 The more you know about mountaineering, the funnier you'll find this book. There is little to...

Climber's Guide to Pinnacles National Monument, 2nd (Regional Rock Climbing Series) Best Price: $18.47 The title says it, "best climbing guide I know." I'm not being paid to say this;...	Kilimanjaro & Mount Kenya: A Climbing and Trekking Guide Best Price: $37.89 Having gone through the preparation to climb Kili, I found this book to be very informative ......	Climbing Washington's Mountains (Climbing Mountains Series) Best Price: $17.41 I was very disappointed with this book overall. It has some good data in it but is lacking in...	Top Treks of the World Best Price: $41.70 So much to see and do and so little time. Gave this to my husband who carries it around...	Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage: The Lonely Challenge This book, written by Hermann Buhl, was largely re-written by his friend and editor Kurt Maix,...

In the Heart of the Canadian Rockies (Mountain Classics Collection) Best Price: $14.54 There is a wonderful fascination about mountains. Their massive grandeur, majesty of lofty...	Baffin Island Best Price: $19.62 The author has done a great job capturing and writing down the premier climbs in Baffin Island. ...	Ice World: Techniques and Experiences of Modern Ice Climbing Best Price: $18.00 Jeff Lowe's earlier book, the Ice Experience, was a companion text to Yvon Choinard's Climbing...	Cicerone Aconcagua: Highest Trek in the World : Practical Information, Preparation and Trekking Routes in the Southern Andes (Cicerone British Mountains) Best Price: $17.12	Selected Climbs in the Cascades: Alpine Routes, Sport Climbs, & Crag Climbs (Selected Climbs) Best Price: $19.27 This is one of the most well done guidebooks I have ever seen. Some of my friends refer to the...

Trekking and Climbing in Nepal (Trekking & Climbing Guides) Best Price: $173.05 The description of this book was mis-represented to me. I searched for books containing 3D...	The Gr5 Trail: Through the French Alps: Lake Geneva to Nice (Cicerone Guide) Best Price: $14.30	Many Mountains to Climb: Reflections on Competence, Courage, and Commitment Best Price: $34.00 As Director for the Center for Management Development at Boise State University, I've had the...	World Mountaineering (The World's Great Mountains By The World's Great Mountaineers) Best Price: $32.00 My title not withstanding, this is a wonderful "picture" book of 52 of the world's...	World Mountaineering : The World's Great Mountains by the World's Great Mountaineers Best Price: $49.30 Very good book on a variety of tempting targets that will take any climber at least one...

Escape Routes: Further Adventure Writings of David Roberts Best Price: $4.79 I chose this book because the cover was as black and smooth as my mood, hoping it would be a...	Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps Best Price: $5.99 "Killing Dragons" is an engrossing series of portraits of men and mountains woven into...	The Outward Bound Backpacker's Handbook (Outward Bound) Best Price: $2.89 Outward Bound does a great job with these books. We were beginners when we bought it, but still...	Scrambles Among the Alps in the Years 1860-69 Best Price: $11.67 I have enjoyed very much reading this book. That's why I award it with 5 stars, it is amongst my...	A Range of Glaciers: The Exploration and Survey of the Northern Cascade Range Best Price: $26.39 The primary accomplishment of this book is its 500+ page discussion of the Washington Cascades...

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