Best Sellers
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The Last Great Mountain
- The First Ascent of Kangchenjunga
- Written by: Mick Conefrey
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
The Last Great Mountain tells the story of the first ascent of Kangchenjunga the third highest but reputedly the hardest mountain in the world. It was an astonishing achievement for a British team led by Everest veteran Charles Evans....
Written by: Mick Conefrey
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No Shortcuts to the Top
- Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
- Written by: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance21
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Story22
THIS GRIPPING AND TRIUMPHANT MEMOIR FOLLOWS A LIVING LEGEND OF EXTREME MOUNTAINEERING AS HE MAKES HIS ASSAULT ON HISTORY, ONE 8,000-METER SUMMIT AT A TIME. For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of...
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Do believe in dreams!
- By Vishvas on 14-09-25
Written by: Ed Viesturs,
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Ghosts of K2
- Written by: Mick Conefrey
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance9
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Story9
At 28,251 feet, K2 might be almost 800 feet shorter than Everest, but it’s a far harder climb. It will kill you on the way up and the way down....
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A gripping story
- By Vinod kumar verma on 05-01-25
Written by: Mick Conefrey
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K2
- Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
- Written by: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance13
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Story13
A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of No Shortcuts to the Top At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan...
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excellent book on k2 saga
- By Sidhu on 19-04-21
Written by: Ed Viesturs,
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The Climb
- Written by: Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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Story10
The Climb is a true, gripping, and thought-provoking account of the worst disaster in the history of Mt. Everest: On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by experienced leaders...
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must read if you're into 1996 disaster
- By Sidhu on 23-04-21
Written by: Anatoli Boukreev,
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Everest
- The West Ridge
- Written by: Thomas Hornbein, Jon Krakauer - foreword
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
In 1963, Jim Whittaker became the first American to summit Everest via the South Col route.
Written by: Thomas Hornbein,
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The Last Great Mountain
- The First Ascent of Kangchenjunga
- Written by: Mick Conefrey
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
The Last Great Mountain tells the story of the first ascent of Kangchenjunga the third highest but reputedly the hardest mountain in the world. It was an astonishing achievement for a British team led by Everest veteran Charles Evans....
Written by: Mick Conefrey
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No Shortcuts to the Top
- Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
- Written by: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance21
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Story22
THIS GRIPPING AND TRIUMPHANT MEMOIR FOLLOWS A LIVING LEGEND OF EXTREME MOUNTAINEERING AS HE MAKES HIS ASSAULT ON HISTORY, ONE 8,000-METER SUMMIT AT A TIME. For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of...
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Do believe in dreams!
- By Vishvas on 14-09-25
Written by: Ed Viesturs,
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Ghosts of K2
- Written by: Mick Conefrey
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance9
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Story9
At 28,251 feet, K2 might be almost 800 feet shorter than Everest, but it’s a far harder climb. It will kill you on the way up and the way down....
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A gripping story
- By Vinod kumar verma on 05-01-25
Written by: Mick Conefrey
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K2
- Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
- Written by: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance13
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Story13
A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of No Shortcuts to the Top At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan...
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excellent book on k2 saga
- By Sidhu on 19-04-21
Written by: Ed Viesturs,
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The Climb
- Written by: Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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Story10
The Climb is a true, gripping, and thought-provoking account of the worst disaster in the history of Mt. Everest: On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by experienced leaders...
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must read if you're into 1996 disaster
- By Sidhu on 23-04-21
Written by: Anatoli Boukreev,
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Everest
- The West Ridge
- Written by: Thomas Hornbein, Jon Krakauer - foreword
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
In 1963, Jim Whittaker became the first American to summit Everest via the South Col route.
Written by: Thomas Hornbein,
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Alive
- The Story of the Andes Survivors
- Written by: Piers Paul Read
- Narrated by: Paul Ansdell
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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Story7
On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes....
Written by: Piers Paul Read
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The Will to Climb
- Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak
- Written by: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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Story8
The bestselling author of No Shortcuts to the Top and K2 chronicles his three attempts to climb the world's tenth-highest and statistically deadliest peak, Annapurna in the Himalaya, while exploring the dramatic and tragic history of others who have made -- or attempted – the ascent, and what...
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Great listening
- By Amazon Customer on 18-11-22
Written by: Ed Viesturs,
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Alone on the Wall (Expanded Edition)
- Written by: Alex Honnold, David Roberts
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden, Will Damron
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance8
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Story8
On June 3rd, 2017, Alex Honnold became the first person to free solo Yosemite's El Capitan - to scale the wall without rope, a partner, or any protective gear. Alone on the Wall recounts the most astonishing achievements of Honnold's extraordinary life and career....
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Unstoppable reading
- By PRADHYOT on 10-08-21
Written by: Alex Honnold,
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Touching The Void
- Written by: Joe Simpson
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Daniel Weyman
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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Story3
Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June 1995. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell...
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A story like no other
- By Prasad on 04-11-20
Written by: Joe Simpson
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Beyond the Mountain
- Written by: Steve House, Reinhold Messner - introduction
- Narrated by: Steve House
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
What does it take to be one of the world's best high-altitude mountain climbers? A lot of fundraising; traveling in some of the world's most dangerous countries; enduring cold bivouacs, searing lungs, and a cloudy mind when you can least afford one. It means learning the hard lessons the...
Written by: Steve House,
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Life Lived Wild
- Adventures at the Edge of the Map
- Written by: Rick Ridgeway
- Narrated by: Rick Ridgeway
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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A life worth living is lived at the edges where it is wild. At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he’s spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents: “And most of that in...
Written by: Rick Ridgeway
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The Color of Everything
- A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within
- Written by: Cory Richards
- Narrated by: Cory Richards
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
A renowned climber and National Geographic photographer shares his incredible adventures—and the early trauma that drove him to seek such heights. “An extraordinary memoir of mental illness that reads like a thriller.”—Amy Ellis Nutt, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of...
Written by: Cory Richards
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Touch the Top of the World
- A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther Than the Eye Can See
- Written by: Erik Weihenmayer
- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
Erik Weihenmayer was born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder that would leave him blind by the age of 13. But Erik was determined to rise above this devastating disability....
Written by: Erik Weihenmayer
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Wanderers
- A History of Women Walking
- Written by: Kerri Andrews, Kathleen Jamie - Foreword by
- Narrated by: Lauren Baldwin
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps....
Written by: Kerri Andrews,
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High Crimes
- The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed
- Written by: Michael Kodas
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Abridged
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High Crimes is journalist Michael Kodas's gripping account of life on top of the world--where man is every bit as deadly as Mother Nature. In the years following the publication of Into Thin Air, much has changed on Mount Everest. Among all the books documenting the glorious adventures in...
Written by: Michael Kodas
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Climbing Everest
- The Writings of George Mallory
- Written by: George Mallory
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Unabridged selections from George Mallory's collected writings on his mountaineering - and his motivations....
Written by: George Mallory
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Training for the Uphill Athlete
- A Manual for Mountain Runners and Ski Mountaineers
- Written by: Steve House, Scott Johnston, Kilian Jornet
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance2
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Dovetailing on the success of Training for the New Alpinism and Patagonia's own emphasis on all mountain use, Training for the Uphill Athlete translates theory into methodology to allow you to write your own training plans and coach yourself to endurance goals....
Written by: Steve House,
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Training for the New Alpinism
- A Manual for the Climber as Athlete
- Written by: Steve House, Scott Johnston, Mark Twight - foreword
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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In Training for the New Alpinism, Steve House, world-class climber and Patagonia ambassador, and Scott Johnston, coach of US national champions and World Cup Nordic skiers, translate training theory into practice to allow you to coach yourself to any mountaineering goal....
Written by: Steve House,
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The Mountain
- My Time on Everest
- Written by: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts - contributor
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Veteran world-class climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs—the only American to have climbed all fourteen of the world's 8,000-meter peaks—trains his sights on Mount Everest in richly detailed accounts of expeditions that are by turns personal, harrowing, deadly, and inspiring....
Written by: Ed Viesturs,
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Everest, Revised & Updated Edition
- Mountain Without Mercy
- Written by: Broughton Coburn
- Narrated by: Mark Peckham
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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A stunningly illustrated portrait of life and death in a hostile, high-altitude environment where no human can survive for long....
Written by: Broughton Coburn
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Eiger Dreams
- Written by: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Jon Krakauer
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Abridged
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No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska's...
Written by: Jon Krakauer
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Headstrap
- Legends and Lore from the Climbing Sherpas of Darjeeling
- Written by: Deepa Balsavar, Nandini Purandare
- Narrated by: Jeed Saddy
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the course of a decade, authors Nandini Purandare and Deepa Balsavar conducted a series of interviews with Sherpas from Darjeeling, as well as their family members, descendants, friends, and contemporary climbers.
Written by: Deepa Balsavar,
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Solo
- What Running Across Mountains Taught Me About Life
- Written by: Jenny Tough
- Narrated by: Jenny Tough
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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'I had a big cry—then I kept going' Growing up in the Canadian Rockies, the mountains have always been home for Jenny Tough. Travelling the world, she's always discovered commonalities with mountains—and mountain people. Her major project is to run solo and unsupported across a mountain...
Written by: Jenny Tough
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Alpine Rising
- Sherpas, Baltis, and the Triumph of Local Climbers in the Greater Ranges
- Written by: Bernadette McDonald
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The name of Maurice Herzog, the first man to reach the summit of Annapurna, is widely recognized, but how many know Ang Tharkay, the Sherpa who carried the seriously frostbitten Herzog on his back for miles?
Written by: Bernadette McDonald
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The Hunt for Mount Everest
- Written by: Craig Storti
- Narrated by: John Pirkis
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The height of Mt. Everest was first measured in 1850, but the closest any westerner got to Everest during the next 71 years, until 1921, was 40 miles. The Hunt for Mt. Everest tells the story of the 71-year quest to find the world's highest mountain. It's a tale of high drama, of...
Written by: Craig Storti
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Blind Descent
- The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth
- Written by: James M. Tabor
- Narrated by: Don Leslie
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The deepest cave on earth was a prize that had remained unclaimed for centuries, long after every other ultimate discovery had been made: both poles by 1912, Everest in 1958, the Challenger Deep in 1961. In 1969 we even walked on the moon. And yet as late as 2000, the earth’s deepest...
Written by: James M. Tabor
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I Chose to Climb
- Written by: Sir Chris Bonington
- Narrated by: Mark Estob
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The early climbing years of Britain's greatest living mountaineer, from his schooldays to his ascent of the Eiger in 1962. I Chose to Climb, first published in 1966, was Chris Bonington's first book. He was recognised then, as now, as one of the outstanding members of a brilliant generation of...
Written by: Sir Chris Bonington
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No Shortcuts to the Top
- Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
- Written by: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
- Narrated by: Ed Viesturs
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4
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Performance2
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This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time. For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of...
Written by: Ed Viesturs,
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Death and Anger on Everest
- Written by: Jon Krakauer
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 16 mins
- Unabridged
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This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection. From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous...
Written by: Jon Krakauer