Recs if you like Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest...

grab your crampons and leave your pregnant wife at home. we are going into the death zone.

Prioritising (though not exclusive-to) Tibetan authors, this is a list of Tibetan non-fiction, predominantly histories and memoirs. It does not focus on Tibetan Buddhist practice, but rather the life, culture and history of Tibet and the Tibetan diaspora.

mountaineering memoirs or non-fic books about hiking in the Himalaya and Karakoram — mostly everest and K2, but other 8,000-meter peaks may make an appearance

various (often conflicting) recounts of the 1996 everest disaster in which 8 people lost their lives