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2. Category:Climbing and mountaineering books - Wikipedia

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   This category is for books (fiction and non-fiction) whose primary topic is climbing or mountaineering. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.

3. Rick Ridgeway - Wikipedia

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   Ridgeway and his three teammates were the first Americans to summit K2, the world's second highest mountain (8,611 m/28,251 ft) located in the Karakoram range. K2 is known for the inherent danger in climbing it, featuring a steep pyramidal relief and long sections of rock and ice, and unstable, overhanging serac.

4. Annapurna (book) - Wikipedia

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   Annapurna: First Conquest of an 8000-meter Peak (1951) is a book by French climber Maurice Herzog, leader of the 1950 French Annapurna expedition, the first expedition in history to summit and return from an 8000+ meter mountain, Annapurna in the Himalayas. It is considered a classic of mountaineering literature and perhaps the most influential ...

5. Mount Analogue - Wikipedia

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   Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing is a classic allegorical adventure novel by the early 20th-century French novelist René Daumal. The novel describes an expedition undertaken by a group of mountaineers to travel to and climb the titular Mount Analogue, an enormous mountain on a ...

6. David Roberts (climber) - Wikipedia

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   David Stuart Roberts (May 29, 1943 – August 20, 2021) was an American climber, mountaineer, college professor, and author of books and articles about climbing and the history of the American Southwest.

7. Jim Perrin - Wikipedia

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   Below is a partial list of books by Perrin listed by Amazon as in print (on 7 November 2016): Mirrors in the Cliffs (ed.) (1983), Diadem; H.W. Tilman: The Seven Mountain-Travel Books (1985), Diadem, edited and introduced; Eric Shipton: The Six Mountain-Travel Books (1985), Diadem, edited and introduced; Spirits of Place (1997), Gomer Press

8. John Long (climber) - Wikipedia

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   His how-to books on adventure sports have been industry leaders for twenty years. His Advanced Rock Climbing won the Banff Film Festival Award for Mountain Exposition, and he is the 2006 recipient of the Literary Award from the American Alpine Club , their highest honor, rarely bestowed.

9. James Ramsey Ullman - Wikipedia

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   He wrote about that journey in his book The Other Side of the Mountain: An Escape to the Amazon, which is entertaining and informative on several levels. [ 2 ] High Conquest was the first of nine books for the J.B. Lippincott Company, coming out in 1941, followed by The White Tower, River of The Sun, Windom's Way, and Banner in the Sky , a 1955 ...