Plaidman Posted December 15, 2010 Posted December 15, 2010 Started this thread on ST. We are at 71 books. Here is the list. The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer The Stone Masters - California Rock Climbers in the 70's - Long and Fidelman The Mountains of My Life - Walter Bonatti Savage Arena - Joe Tasker The Magnificent Mountain Women - Janet Robertson Mountain of My Fear - David Roberts Escape Routes - David Roberts Chomolungma Sings The Blues - Ed Douglas Pushing The Limits - Chic Scott The Hard Years - Joe Brown One Man's Mountain - Tom Patey Minus 148 Degrees: The First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley - Art Davidson Touching the Void - Joe Simpson Conquistadors of the Useless - Lionel Terray Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer Caverns Measureless to Man - Sheck Exley Deep Play - Paul Pritchard The Totem Pole - Paul Pritchard On the Ridge Between Life and Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined - David Roberts Ways to the Sky - Andy Selters Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber - Mark Twight Starlight and Storm - Gaston Rebuffat Annapurna - Maurice Herzog Rock Jocks, Wall Rats, and Hang Dogs - John Long Everest Kangshung Face - Stephen Venables Eiger Obsession - John Harlin III K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain - Ed Viesturs Killing Dragons - Fergus Fleming Escape from Khatmandu - Kim Stanley Robinson Gorilla Monsoon - John Long Downward Bound - Warren Harding K2 The Savage Mountain - Houston & Bates 50 Years of Alpinism - Ricardo Cassin The Stones Of Silence - George Schaller The Games Climbers Play - Ken Wilson (Editor) Into The Unknown - Susan Schwartz A Fine Kind Of Madness Guy and Laura Waterman Solo Faces - James Salter Gervasuttis Climbs - Giusti Gervasutti Enduring Patagonia - Gregory Crouch Close Calls - by John Long Eiger Dreams - Jon Krakauer Climbing Adventures - A Climbers Passion - Jim Bridwell The Black Cliff - Soper, Crew, and Wilson In High Places - Dougal Haston Everest The Hard Way - Chris Bonington Everest: The West Ridge - Tom Hornbein The Ascent of Rum Doodle - W.E. Bowman No Shortcuts to the Top - Ed Viesturs On Belay: The Life of Legendary Mountaineer Paul Petzodt - Raye C. Ringholz Climbing Free - Lynn Hill The Burgess Book of Lies - Adrian and Alan Burgess The Climb Up To Hell - Jack Olsen No Way Down - Live and Death on K2 - Graham Bowley Ascent of the Matterhorn - Edward Whymper. Men and the Matterhorn - Gaston Rebuffat. Tiger of the Snows Tenzing Norgay - Liesl Clark Stories of a young climber : an autobiography - Pat Ament We Aspired: The Last Innocent Americans - Pete Sinclair Deborah - David Roberts Lighting Out - Daniel Duane Looking for Mo - Daniel Duane Beyond the Mountain - Steve House Ways to the Sky: A Historical Guide to North American Mountaineering - Andy Selters Feeding the Rat - Al Alvarez No Picnic on Mount Kenya - Felice Benuzzi Royal Robbins: Spirit of the Age - Pat Ament John Gill: Master of Rock - Pat Ament Camp 4: Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber - Steve Roper The Eiger Sanction - Trevanian THE VILLAIN: A Portrait of Don Whillans - James Perrin The Vertical World of Yosemite - Galen Rowell Quote
j_b Posted December 15, 2010 Posted December 15, 2010 Welzenbach's climbs, David Roberts Moments of Doubt, David Roberts The Ascent of Nanda Devi, Bill Tillman Upon that mountain, Eric Shipton Scrambles Among the alps, Edward Whymper Sacred Summits, Peter Boardman Beyond the Vertical, Layton Kor Quote
Peter McCorkell Posted December 15, 2010 Posted December 15, 2010 John Muir's writings are excellent. The account of his 1875 epic on Mt. Shasta in which he spent the night rolling back and forth in the fumaroles is incredible: http://www.yosemite.ca.us/john_muir_writings/snow_storm_on_mount_shasta/ I believe it's also found in The Wild Muir, a collection of his short stories. Quote
Plaidman Posted December 15, 2010 Author Posted December 15, 2010 (edited) My list is too long now. Here it is. 123 books long. Now we need to rank them. The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer The Stone Masters - California Rock Climbers in the 70's - Long and Fidelman The Mountains of My Life - Walter Bonatti Savage Arena - Joe Tasker The Magnificent Mountain Women - Janet Robertson Mountain of My Fear - David Roberts Escape Routes - David Roberts Chomolungma Sings The Blues - Ed Douglas Pushing The Limits - Chic Scott The Hard Years - Joe Brown One Man's Mountain - Tom Patey Minus 148 Degrees: The First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley - Art Davidson Touching the Void - Joe Simpson Conquistadors of the Useless - Lionel Terray Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer Caverns Measureless to Man - Sheck Exley Deep Play - Paul Pritchard The Totem Pole - Paul Pritchard On the Ridge Between Life and Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined - David Roberts Ways to the Sky - Andy Selters Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber - Mark Twight Starlight and Storm - Gaston Rebuffat Annapurna - Maurice Herzog Rock Jocks, Wall Rats, and Hang Dogs - John Long Everest Kangshung Face - Stephen Venables Eiger Obsession - John Harlin III K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain - Ed Viesturs Killing Dragons - Fergus Fleming Escape from Khatmandu - Kim Stanley Robinson Gorilla Monsoon - John Long Downward Bound - Warren Harding K2 The Savage Mountain - Houston & Bates 50 Years of Alpinism - Ricardo Cassin The Stones Of Silence - George Schaller The Games Climbers Play - Ken Wilson (Editor) Into The Unknown - Susan Schwartz A Fine Kind Of Madness Guy and Laura Waterman Solo Faces - James Salter Gervasuttis Climbs - Giusti Gervasutti Enduring Patagonia - Gregory Crouch Close Calls - by John Long Eiger Dreams - Jon Krakauer Climbing Adventures - A Climbers Passion - Jim Bridwell The Black Cliff - Soper, Crew, and Wilson In High Places - Dougal Haston Everest The Hard Way - Chris Bonington Everest: The West Ridge - Tom Hornbein The Ascent of Rum Doodle - W.E. Bowman No Shortcuts to the Top - Ed Viesturs On Belay: The Life of Legendary Mountaineer Paul Petzodt - Raye C. Ringholz Climbing Free - Lynn Hill The Burgess Book of Lies - Adrian and Alan Burgess The Climb Up To Hell - Jack Olsen No Way Down - Live and Death on K2 - Graham Bowley Ascent of the Matterhorn - Edward Whymper. Men and the Matterhorn - Gaston Rebuffat. Tiger of the Snows Tenzing Norgay - Liesl Clark Stories of a young climber : an autobiography - Pat Ament We Aspired: The Last Innocent Americans - Pete Sinclair Deborah - David Roberts Lighting Out - Daniel Duane Looking for Mo - Daniel Duane Beyond the Mountain - Steve House Ways to the Sky: A Historical Guide to North American Mountaineering - Andy Selters Feeding the Rat - Al Alvarez No Picnic on Mount Kenya - Felice Benuzzi Royal Robbins: Spirit of the Age - Pat Ament John Gill: Master of Rock - Pat Ament Camp 4: Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber - Steve Roper The Eiger Sanction - Trevanian THE VILLAIN: A Portrait of Don Whillans - James Perrin The Vertical World of Yosemite - Galen Rowell Wizards of Rock: A History of Free Climbing in America - Pat Ament The Naked Mountain - Reinhold Messner/Tim Carruthers The Seventh Grade - Reinhold Messner Mountaineering In Scotland - WH Murray Snow in the Kingdom - Ed Webster No Tigers In The Hindu Kush - Philip Trantor The Loneliest Mountain - Lincoln Hall The High Lonesome- John Long Fall of the Phantom Lord- Andrew Todhunter The Six Mountain Travel Books- Eric Shipton Endurance - Alfred Lansing A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush - Eric Newby Against the Wall - Simon Yates The Flame of Adventure - Simon Yates An Eye at the Top of the World - Pete Takeda Breaking Point: Challenge on Alaska's Mt. Hunter - Glenn Randall Eiger Direct - Peter Gillman/Dougal Haston Everest: The Testing Place - John B. West Everest: The Unclimbed Ridge - Chris Bonington /Charles Clarke High Conquest - James Ramsey Ullman In High Places - Dougal Haston Kingdon of Adventure: Everest - James Ramsey Ullman Land of the Snow Lion - Elaine Brook Last Days - John Roskelley On Mountains and Mountaineers - Mike Vause Orogenic Zones - Terry Gifford/Rosie Smith Over the Edge - Greg Child Red Peak - Malcom Slesse Sacred Summits - Peter Boardman Seven Summits - Bass/Wells/Ridgeway Solo Nanga Parbat - Reinhold Messner Stories Off The Wall - John Roskelley Storm & Sorrow in the High Pamirs - Robert Craig The Conquest of Everst - Sir John Hunt The Great Days - Walter Bonatti The Guiding Spirit - Kauffman/Putman The Last Place on Earth - Roland Huntford The Shining Mountain - Peter Boardman Thin Air - Greg Child To the Top of Denali - Bill Sherwonit A Sunny Day in the Himalaya - Peter Hilary A Hard Day’s Summer - Alison Hargreaves A Test of Will - Warren McDonald Addicted to Danger - Jim Wickwire/Dorothy Bullitt Alan Rouse: A Mountaineers Life - Geoff Birtles At the Sharp End - Paul Nunn Between Heaven and Earth - Gaston Rebuffat Blind Corners - Geoff Tabin Climb to the Lost World - Hamish MacInnes Climbing Everest - Pat Ament Creagh Dhu Climber - John Cunningham/Jeff Connor Edited December 15, 2010 by Plaidman Quote
Murph Posted December 15, 2010 Posted December 15, 2010 Jesus,from a nOobs perspective,thatsa lotta lit for me to get through.....and i`m starting Alpineism at 47 !!. Well,at least i`ve started with two,K2 Viesturs and Eiger by Krakauer...actually three,Trevanians Eiger was most excellent,a great read. Great list.... Quote
ivan Posted December 15, 2010 Posted December 15, 2010 reading too much in any genre makes a bore of a man everything i need to know about HardKore alpinism i can learn right here terray's conquistadors is my fav of the bunch... Quote
Ilovecheese Posted December 15, 2010 Posted December 15, 2010 Into thin air, -148, Touching the void, addicted to danger, kiss or kill, no shortcuts to the top are the ones that have been important to me as a climber- mostly for vastly different reasons. Some I read and relate to- others I read as a cautionary tale. Quote
kukuzka1 Posted December 15, 2010 Posted December 15, 2010 Oh my god, mr kukuzcka is flippin in his grave! my vertical world by jerzy. not one epic but many. the hardest sob ever![hope i didnt miss it above if so nevermind] Quote
Off_White Posted December 15, 2010 Posted December 15, 2010 I'd throw the recent Desert Towers by Crusher Bartlett into the mix, full of tales and history, some quite gripping, as well as lots of historical articles re-printed. Quote
johndavidjr Posted December 15, 2010 Posted December 15, 2010 Lynn Hill is practically illiterate. I strongly suspect there are others on the list. Why isn't Beckey's "Challenge of the North Cascades" on the list? He's a good writer. Also, "Feeding the Rat" by Al Alvarez. a Brit climber who is much better known as a genuine high-end literati and critic. Quote
Coldfinger Posted December 15, 2010 Posted December 15, 2010 Don't forget: Kongur, Chris Bonington Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage, Herman Buhl Shishapangma, Scott & MacIntyre and how the hell did we forget this beaut: White Limbo, Hall Quote
campwire Posted December 15, 2010 Posted December 15, 2010 May be I missed them on the list, but a couple of my favorites: Nanda Devi, John Roskelly K2 The Last Step, Rick Ridgeway I Chose to Climb, Chris Bonnington A Women's Place is on top, Arlene Blum Quote
Plaidman Posted December 15, 2010 Author Posted December 15, 2010 Now that we have a list of 129 we will need to refine it to 100 books. The way this will work is kinda like Survivor. 5 votes and a book comes off the list. OFF THE ISLAND! To add a new book to the list only takes 3 votes. I didn't add all the books on Jello's list of his library. My wife says her book must stay on the list and is immune to vote off. I disagree even though Magnificent Mountain Women is a good book from an historical perspective. So to appease her it will take 6 votes to vote this book off the island. IT's OUTTA MY HANDS NOW! Let the voting begin! Here is the list: The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer The Stone Masters - California Rock Climbers in the 70's - Long and Fidelman The Mountains of My Life - Walter Bonatti Savage Arena - Joe Tasker The Magnificent Mountain Women - Janet Robertson Mountain of My Fear - David Roberts Escape Routes - David Roberts Chomolungma Sings The Blues - Ed Douglas Pushing The Limits - Chic Scott The Hard Years - Joe Brown One Man's Mountain - Tom Patey Minus 148 Degrees: The First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley - Art Davidson Touching the Void - Joe Simpson Conquistadors of the Useless - Lionel Terray Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer Caverns Measureless to Man - Sheck Exley Deep Play - Paul Pritchard The Totem Pole - Paul Pritchard On the Ridge Between Life and Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined - David Roberts Ways to the Sky - Andy Selters Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber - Mark Twight Starlight and Storm - Gaston Rebuffat Annapurna - Maurice Herzog Rock Jocks, Wall Rats, and Hang Dogs - John Long Everest Kangshung Face - Stephen Venables Eiger Obsession - John Harlin III K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain - Ed Viesturs Killing Dragons - Fergus Fleming Escape from Khatmandu - Kim Stanley Robinson Gorilla Monsoon - John Long Downward Bound - Warren Harding K2 The Savage Mountain - Houston & Bates 50 Years of Alpinism - Ricardo Cassin The Stones Of Silence - George Schaller The Games Climbers Play - Ken Wilson (Editor) Into The Unknown - Susan Schwartz A Fine Kind Of Madness Guy and Laura Waterman Solo Faces - James Salter Gervasuttis Climbs - Giusti Gervasutti Enduring Patagonia - Gregory Crouch Close Calls - by John Long Eiger Dreams - Jon Krakauer Climbing Adventures - A Climbers Passion - Jim Bridwell The Black Cliff - Soper, Crew, and Wilson In High Places - Dougal Haston Everest The Hard Way - Chris Bonington Everest: The West Ridge - Tom Hornbein The Ascent of Rum Doodle - W.E. Bowman No Shortcuts to the Top - Ed Viesturs On Belay: The Life of Legendary Mountaineer Paul Petzodt - Raye C. Ringholz Climbing Free - Lynn Hill The Burgess Book of Lies - Adrian and Alan Burgess The Climb Up To Hell - Jack Olsen No Way Down - Live and Death on K2 - Graham Bowley Ascent of the Matterhorn - Edward Whymper. Men and the Matterhorn - Gaston Rebuffat. Tiger of the Snows Tenzing Norgay - Liesl Clark Stories of a young climber : an autobiography - Pat Ament We Aspired: The Last Innocent Americans - Pete Sinclair Deborah - David Roberts Lighting Out - Daniel Duane Looking for Mo - Daniel Duane Beyond the Mountain - Steve House Ways to the Sky: A Historical Guide to North American Mountaineering - Andy Selters Feeding the Rat - Al Alvarez No Picnic on Mount Kenya - Felice Benuzzi Royal Robbins: Spirit of the Age - Pat Ament John Gill: Master of Rock - Pat Ament Camp 4: Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber - Steve Roper The Eiger Sanction - Trevanian THE VILLAIN: A Portrait of Don Whillans - James Perrin The Vertical World of Yosemite - Galen Rowell Wizards of Rock: A History of Free Climbing in America - Pat Ament The Naked Mountain - Reinhold Messner/Tim Carruthers The Seventh Grade - Reinhold Messner Mountaineering In Scotland - WH Murray Snow in the Kingdom - Ed Webster No Tigers In The Hindu Kush - Philip Trantor The Loneliest Mountain - Lincoln Hall The High Lonesome- John Long Fall of the Phantom Lord- Andrew Todhunter The Six Mountain Travel Books- Eric Shipton Endurance - Alfred Lansing A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush - Eric Newby The Breach - Rob Taylor Against the Wall - Simon Yates The Flame of Adventure - Simon Yates An Eye at the Top of the World - Pete Takeda Breaking Point: Challenge on Alaska's Mt. Hunter - Glenn Randall Eiger Direct - Peter Gillman/Dougal Haston Everest: The Testing Place - John B. West Everest: The Unclimbed Ridge - Chris Bonington /Charles Clarke High Conquest - James Ramsey Ullman In High Places - Dougal Haston Kingdon of Adventure: Everest - James Ramsey Ullman Land of the Snow Lion - Elaine Brook Last Days - John Roskelley On Mountains and Mountaineers - Mike Vause Orogenic Zones - Terry Gifford/Rosie Smith Over the Edge - Greg Child Red Peak - Malcom Slesse Sacred Summits - Peter Boardman Seven Summits - Bass/Wells/Ridgeway Solo Nanga Parbat - Reinhold Messner Stories Off The Wall - John Roskelley Storm & Sorrow in the High Pamirs - Robert Craig The Conquest of Everst - Sir John Hunt The Great Days - Walter Bonatti The Guiding Spirit - Kauffman/Putman The Last Place on Earth - Roland Huntford The Shining Mountain - Peter Boardman Thin Air - Greg Child To the Top of Denali - Bill Sherwonit A Sunny Day in the Himalaya - Peter Hilary A Hard Day’s Summer - Alison Hargreaves A Test of Will - Warren McDonald Addicted to Danger - Jim Wickwire/Dorothy Bullitt Alan Rouse: A Mountaineers Life - Geoff Birtles At the Sharp End - Paul Nunn Between Heaven and Earth - Gaston Rebuffat Blind Corners - Geoff Tabin Climb to the Lost World - Hamish MacInnes Climbing Everest - Pat Ament Creagh Dhu Climber - John Cunningham/Jeff Connor Nothing so Simple as Climbing - G.F. Dutton Baron von Mabel's Backpacking - Sheridan Anderson The Ridiculous Mountains - G.F. Dutton Flammes de Pierre - Anne Sauvy The Game of Mountain and Chance - Anne Sauvy How could I have miss these great books? Do I get to vote. Hmmmm .... Yes. I get to vote. One vote for Challenge of the North Cascades Challenge of the North Cascades - Fred Beckey My Vertical World - Jerzy Kukuczka Desert Towers - Crusher Bartlett Kongur - Chris Bonington Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage - Herman Buhl Shishapangma - Scott & MacIntyre White Limbo - Lincoln Hall Nanda Devi - John Roskelly K2 The Last Step - Rick Ridgeway I Chose to Climb - Chris Bonnington A Women's Place is on top - Arlene Blum K2 The Last Step - Rick Ridgeway Quote
jhamaker Posted December 15, 2010 Posted December 15, 2010 I'm looking for a copy of "Les Concourants de l'Inutile" by Lionel Tierry to buy or borrow. Quote
johndavidjr Posted December 15, 2010 Posted December 15, 2010 Just personally, the most interesting book on mountaineering I've ever read was an Edwardian-era "how to" text called "Mountaincraft" by Geoffrey Winthrop Young. I guess it's not an "adventure book" per se. As for above list I'd be surprised if I've read ten percent of them... Quote
Plaidman Posted December 15, 2010 Author Posted December 15, 2010 I think I have read about a 1/3 of them. Maybe I should climb more? Quote
ConorB Posted December 15, 2010 Posted December 15, 2010 i gotta say keep "to the top of denali". if at least only for the sourdough expedition. there are some other really fine stories in that book to but that one stands out as one of the amazing climbing adventures in north american climbing history. Quote
kukuzka1 Posted December 15, 2010 Posted December 15, 2010 #1-my vertical world/jerzy kukuzcka #2-crossing zion/keith johnson #3-touching the void/joe simpson #4-the climb up to hell/jack olson #5-the seventh grade/reinhold messner Quote
johndavidjr Posted December 16, 2010 Posted December 16, 2010 Young instructs that "all climbers should smoke [tobacco]" because this "suppresses thirst and unnecessary talking." He also warned against treating guides as equals because one mustn't forget their inferior class....& he offered many other charming ideas... Quote
Plaidman Posted December 16, 2010 Author Posted December 16, 2010 Young instructs that "all climbers should smoke [tobacco]" because this "suppresses thirst and unnecessary talking." He also warned against treating guides as equals because one mustn't forget their inferior class....& he offered many other charming ideas... Which book title? Quote
genepires Posted December 16, 2010 Posted December 16, 2010 "Mountaincraft" by Geoffrey Winthrop Young Quote
johndavidjr Posted December 16, 2010 Posted December 16, 2010 I emailed the "Mountaineers" publishing arm about 7-9 years ago and suggested they publish "Mountaincraft" in facsimile edition. Young is significant figure in Brit mtnring history...& wrote major work that relates slightly to early "Freedom of Hills" editions. (see index etc. of early editions.) Is marginally viable idea for a publisher.........ought to be done. The facsimile edition..... Before books die economically speaking....... I cherish a fascimile edition of the 1918(similar era American) 1200-page "Camping and Woodcraft" by Horace Kephart......Despite damage by my dogs.........and catching on fire by candle light in various restaurants & etc......Kephart is somewhat better writer than Young.......quotes Shakespeare & etc...but is more a bullsh*tter than Young. Entertaiing & even enlightening stuff. Quote
olyclimber Posted December 16, 2010 Posted December 16, 2010 .....looks like Oakley Press has made a facsimile in 2008...most likely available at Walmart or some similar outlet....words and pictures should be functionally equivalent to the original dated text.... Quote
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