Blake Posted October 31, 2003 Posted October 31, 2003 What is one (or several) of your favorite books about mountains and mountain climbing? I would have to say Starlight and Storm by Gaston Rebufat and Of Men and Mountains by William O'Douglas. Quote
Cpt.Caveman Posted October 31, 2003 Posted October 31, 2003 HW Tilman - not always climbing, but always adventure and lots of climbing. He has a couple of compilations. He was lost at sea in '76. He incorporated sailing and climbing until he was in his 70's including a solo bicycle ride across Africa and ventures into Asian mountains and a crossing of the Patagonian Ice Cap with a non English Speaking partner.... Older days....... Quote
mattp Posted October 31, 2003 Posted October 31, 2003 Tilman Right up there with Harding's "Downward Bound." Quote
mtnear Posted October 31, 2003 Posted October 31, 2003 Touching the Void - Joe Simpson. Gripping survival tale of 2 partners climbing in South America. Good book to give to your climbing partners. Â Soon to be a movie... For movie info... http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0379557/ Quote
EWolfe Posted October 31, 2003 Posted October 31, 2003 Wofgang Gullich: A Life in the Vertical - Tillman Hepp  Master of Rock: The John Gill Story - Pat Ament Quote
Billygoat Posted October 31, 2003 Posted October 31, 2003 Necro my man! Last Blue Mountain is one of my favorites. In tense! Also, Lionel Terray, Conquistadors of the Useless and finally, Sherman Exposed. Â And of course ANAM Â Goat Quote
Alpine_Tom Posted October 31, 2003 Posted October 31, 2003 Touching the Void was the first climbing book I ever read, and thinking about it still gives me the creeps. I really liked In the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods about the '75 K2 expedition. Cascade Voices by Malcomb Bates ought to be required reading if you climb around here. Quote
ChestBeater Posted October 31, 2003 Posted October 31, 2003 Actually, the red one is my favorite. Quote
Dru Posted October 31, 2003 Posted October 31, 2003 1) "Climbers" M John Harrison 2) "This Game of Ghosts" Joe Simpson 3) complete works of M Twight  I have noticed many climbers favorite climbing books are old classics from the 1930's or whenever. I believe this romantic nostalgism disaffects us from modern climbing and the reality of history. You know, everyone goes to Nepal with "Seven Years in Tibet" and then whines about how much things have changed. Grow up!  That said WH Murray "Mountaineering in Scotland" is a total fucking classic. Ditto "No Picnic on Mt Kenya" Felice Benuzzi. Finally go get "a Climbers Life" by Don Whillans for storys of beer drinking, pub fighting, hard sends, Patagonia, Himalayas and leading 5.11 roof cracks in 1957 Quote
Billygoat Posted October 31, 2003 Posted October 31, 2003 Dru said: Finally go get "a Climbers Life" by Don Whillans for storys of beer drinking, pub fighting, hard sends, Patagonia, Himalayas and leading 5.11 roof cracks in 1957 Â The Burgess Book of Lies is good on this count as well. Quote
Dru Posted October 31, 2003 Posted October 31, 2003 Billygoat said: Dru said: Finally go get "a Climbers Life" by Don Whillans for storys of beer drinking, pub fighting, hard sends, Patagonia, Himalayas and leading 5.11 roof cracks in 1957 Â The Burgess Book of Lies is good on this count as well. Â Except that the Burgess brothers are, unfortunately, sad wankers who were run out of Canada for sucking so much Quote
Billygoat Posted October 31, 2003 Posted October 31, 2003 Well, Whilans ended up a fat, drunken turd didn't he. Quote
Dru Posted October 31, 2003 Posted October 31, 2003 fat, drunken, and dead at 50-something of a heart attack. live hard die fast Quote
Fairweather Posted October 31, 2003 Posted October 31, 2003 Tales of a Western Mountaineer by C E Rusk  Mountain Fever by Aubrey Haines  K2-The Savage Mountain by Huston and Bates  Breaking Point Glen Randall Quote
Distel32 Posted October 31, 2003 Posted October 31, 2003 Utah Bouldering Guide - Jeff Baldwin  I have always liked Hemingway's quote though, something along the lines of, "The only true sports in life are car racing, bull fighting and mountain climbing, the rest are merely games." Not a climbing book but The Sun Also Rises is excellent Quote
Crux Posted October 31, 2003 Posted October 31, 2003 Gervasutti, Giusto (1909-1946). GERVASUTTI'S CLIMBS: Matterhorn by moonlight, solo on a new year's night. Other tales. Pre-WWII first ascents in the Alps. Â Crowder and Tabor. ROUTES AND ROCKS IN THE CHALLENGER QUADRANGLE: Geological guide to the Pickets and other rocks of the North Cascades. Quote
ncascademtns Posted October 31, 2003 Posted October 31, 2003 I know it is not about climbing but if you ever get the chance to read 'Antarctica, Both Heaven and Hell' by Reinhold Messner and 'Mind Over Matter' by Ranulph Fiennes it would be worth your time. These guys are really amazing! Â Fiennes has the record for the longest unsupported journey of 1350 miles across Antarctica which was really more impressive than Messner's same journey. Quote
bunglehead Posted October 31, 2003 Posted October 31, 2003 Rock Jocks, Wall Rats and Hangdogs  by John Long. Funn-nnee! Quote
willstrickland Posted October 31, 2003 Posted October 31, 2003 Yosemite Free Climbs - Don Reid Yosemite Climbs: Big Walls - Don Reid Yosemite Big Walls - Supertopos - Chris McNamara   Camp 4: Recollections of a Yosemite Rock Climber - Steve Roper  Crystal Horizon - Reinhold Messner  The Breach - Rob Taylor (just read this last week) On "The Breach"- Anyone know why Taylor used a fake name for his partner? He called him Harley Warner in the book when it was clearly Henry Barber from the description.  Mt. Analogue - Rene' Daumal (finally got ahold of this after two years of looking through the local library) Quote
Peter_Puget Posted October 31, 2003 Posted October 31, 2003 Crowds & Power  Ok, it's not a climb ing book but I picked it up while cleanng last night and realized what a great book it was.  PP Quote
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