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What is the best mountaneering disaster book?

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>>20085594
Not mountaineering but South by Shackleton has quite a bit of overlap and they face much the same issues and hardships as the people stuck on a mountain top, less risk of falling but they were stuck for a few months instead of a few days like most mountaineering incidents.

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The White Spider

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These guys weren't mountaineers by choice, but they suffered the same hardships. Imagine being stuck at 16,000 feet with no winter clothes and only one pair of sunglasses for your entire team.
Also has got to be the best-researched survival book I've ever read.

>>20085951
Has anyone read both South and Endurance? I've only read the latter; I wonder how Shackleton's account compares. I'm guessing it's far more biased.

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>>20087341
South is not really biased unless you are a moron. People love to call Lansing more balanced but the things they cite as examples of Shackleton's ego is literally his trying to keep moral up in a terrible situation, he does not bother to explicitly state this every time and some like to nit pick. I find South to give a much better view of what happened and the bleakness of the situation comes across much better. If you tend towards the literal than Endurance might be better for you, but if you can look past the literal and understand meaning than go with South.