by mike » Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:09 pm
Kiss or Kill- I'll look that up.
Extreme Alpinism- Mark Twight also
Snow Spider- about the first ascent of Eiger N. Face
Any Canadian Alpine Journal
The Ascent of Rumdoodle- W.E. Bowman -a farce about high altitude, seige tactic, mountaineering
Secret Mountain- Chris Bonnington- 700M unclimbed peak in Tibet
Crystal Horizon- Reinhold Messner- Solo up Everest (all his books are not bad)
Seven Summits- Dick Bass
The book about Shackleton and his antarctic misadventure
Death on the Ice- Carrie Brown- Seal hunt accident in NF- book about strong human spirit in the face of adversity
Alaskan Ascents- Alpine journal style stories (David- where's my book?)
Other, non related, good books: Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, Vernon God Little, Jim Giraffe