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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
From cult classic such as Harry Potter to New York Times best-sellers, these 20 reads have the most customer reviews than any other books on Amazon! ... RELATED: 50 books to read in a lifetime.
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.
The Summit of the Gods (Japanese: 神々の山嶺, Hepburn: Kamigami no Itadaki) is a manga series written and illustrated by Jiro Taniguchi.Based on a 1998 novel by Baku Yumemakura, [2] [1] it follows Fukamachi, a photographer who finds a camera supposedly belonging to George Mallory, a mountaineer who went missing on Mount Everest, and goes on a mountain-climbing adventure along with his ...
The following is a list of books about K2, a mountain in the Karakorum Range between Pakistan and China, listed by expedition date: 1887 - British - Younghusband. Francis Younghusband, The Heart of a Continent, 1896, (Yakushi Y27) 1892 - British - Conway. Martin Conway, Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram Himalayas, 1894, (Yakushi C336a)