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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.
These adventure books are great for those who love travel and the great outdoors. Picks like ‘Wild’ by Cheryl Strayed and ‘In the Heart of the Sea’ by Nathaniel Philbrick are examples.
His large format book, The Stonemasters: California Rock Climbers in the Seventies, was released in October 2009, and on November 4, 2010, won the Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Book Festival. [2] Yosemite: The Vertical Evolution , another large format book on modern free climbing in Yosemite, was released in July 2011.
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.
Climbing from the north side, as Ballinger does, avoids the huge crowds who flock to the southern base camp from all over the world every May, the prime climbing season on Everest, to wait for a ...
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 ...
Fifty Classic Climbs of North America is a 1979 climbing guidebook and history written by Steve Roper and Allen Steck. [1] It is considered a classic piece of climbing literature, known to many climbers as simply "The Book", [2] and has served as an inspiration for more recent climbing books, such as Mark Kroese's Fifty Favorite Climbs. [3]
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.