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

By John D. Burns

The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk and Going Beyond Limits to Climb the Dawn Wall

By Tommy Caldwell

Into Thin Air

By Jon Krakauer

Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster

By Jon Krakauer

Ulrich Inderbinen: As Old as the Century

By Heidi Lanz, Liliane De Meester

The Mountains are Calling: Running in the High Places of Scotland

By Jonny Muir

The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

By Macfarlane, Robert

Where Did it All Go Right?

By Al Alvarez

When Nights Were Cold: A literary mystery

By Susanna Jones

What If I Had Never Tried It

By Rossi, Valentino

Run or Die: The Inspirational Memoir of the World's Greatest Ultra-Runner

By Kilian Jornet Burgada

Above the Clouds: How I Carved My Own Path to the Top of the World

By Kilian Jornet

The Mountains of My Life

By Walter Bonatti, Robert Marshall

The Man Who Cycled The World

By Beaumont, Mark

The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

By Anatoli Boukreev, G.Weston Dewalt

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: Updated and revised to celebrate the author's 75th year

By Ranulph Fiennes

Fearless on Everest: The Quest for Sandy Irvine

By Julie Summers

Madame de Pompadour

By Nancy Mitford

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

No Way Down: Life and Death on K2

By Bowley, Graham

Finding Harmony: The remarkable dog that helped a family through the darkest of times

By Hyder, Sally

Bodytalk: A World Guide to Gestures

By Desmond Morris