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Mountains of the World

By Dieter Braun

Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople: From The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates

By Patrick Leigh Fermor, Jan Morris

Tales from the Himalaya

By Henry Edmundson

Total High: The Everest Challenge

By Grania Willis

Wanderlust British & Irish Isles: Hiking the Trails of the Great Britain and Ireland

By gestalten, Alex Roddie

Climbing High: A Woman's Account of Surviving the

By Lene Gammelgaard

South Col: One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest 1953

By Wilfrid Noyce

The Sword in the Stone (Grolier Books)

By no name

Everest - The First Ascent: The untold story of Griffith Pugh, the man who made it possible

By Harriet Tuckey

Everest

By Sangma Francis, Lisk Feng

The View from the Summit

By Sir Edmund Hillary

Paddle to the Amazon: The Ultimate 12,000-Mile Canoe Adventure

By Don Starkell

Alive:The True Story of the Andes Survivors

By Read, Piers Paul

The Maverick Mountaineer: The Remarkable Life of George Ingle Finch: Climber, Scientist, Inventor

By Robert Wainwright (Author)

To the Top of the World: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Mountains

By Richard Sale

The Moth and the Mountain: Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2021

By Ed Caesar

Painted Mountains: Two Expeditions to Kashmir

By Stephen Venables

Thinking on My Feet: The small joy of putting one foot in front of another

By Kate Humble

Madame de Pompadour

By Nancy Mitford

Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

By Donnie Eichar

Miracle In The Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home

By Nando Parrado

The Last Hillwalker: A sideways look at forty years in Britain's mountains

By John D. Burns

Wainwright: The Biography

By Hunter Davies

Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth

By James M. Tabor

Cairngorm John: A Life in Mountain Rescue

By John Allen, Robert Davidson, Sir Chris Bonington

High Achiever: The Life and Climbs of Chris Bonington

By Jim Curran, Reinhold Messner

Into Thin Air

By Jon Krakauer

Ulrich Inderbinen: As Old as the Century

By Heidi Lanz, Liliane De Meester

Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster

By Jon Krakauer

Everest

By Matt Dickinson