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Best books about mountaineering? Fact and fiction.

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>>17073232
Into thin pubic hair

>> No.17073732

Evola actually has a very nice one. http://cakravartin.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/Julius-Evola-Meditation-on-the-Peaks-Mountain-Climbing-as-Metaphor-for-the-Spiritual-Quest.pdf

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>>17073232
First on the Rope - Robert Frison-Roche (and pretty much everything else the guy wrote)
De l'alpinisme - Pierre-Henry Frangne
Journal de l'ascension du Mont-Blanc - Horace-Bénédict de Saussure

>> No.17075111

>>17073232
Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann

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>> No.17075791

>>17075132
I knew as soon as I saw the OP someone would post this

>> No.17075806

>>17075791
Of course, I had to. It's a really good book though.

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Mark Helprin’s short story The Schreuderslpitze

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underrated as hell

>> No.17075865

Kiss Or Kill.

>> No.17076001

>>17075865
Besides that, Above The Clouds and maybe the Boardman/Tasker omnibus. Most mountaineering books are shit but these 3 are top notch.

>> No.17076019

>>17076001
Lastly, to clarify, Above The Clouds by Anatoli Boukreev, not Kilian.

>> No.17076026

>>17075099
great picks

>> No.17076046

>>17076019
Now that I’m thinking, throw down My Vertical World by Jerzy Kukuczka. Like Messner only written better.

>> No.17076071

The worst journey in the world

>> No.17076183

The Climb - Anatoli Boukreev

>> No.17076405

Daumal, Mount Analogue

>> No.17076511

>>17073232
>nonfiction
Into Thin Air

>> No.17076671

The White Spider

>> No.17077653

>>17075806
Seconded super fun read

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Incredibly interesting and comfy book.