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get in loser, we're going mountaineering

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

Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest

Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day

No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks

Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest

Mary Karr's Required Reading: Memoirs & Hybrids

Abridged list curated by Mary Karr in Art of Memoir (2015). I've selected only the books she's denoted to be "better written" as the original list is seven pages long.

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)

Before Night Falls

The Sum of Our Days

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)

Before Night Falls

Nonfiction

by orchidvervain

Nonfiction books on my TBR

Unmasking Autism

Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland

Bleed: Destroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care

Unmasking Autism

National Geographic core: Naturalist Classics 🍃

Forever mourning the loss of Jeanne Villepreux-Power's journals.

The canon 19th and 20th century works of naturalist nonfiction (with some mystical/metaphysical work as well because the naturalist-to-poet pipeline is real and irresistible)

** work in progress!

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

The Sea Around Us

The Living Mountain

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

High-Prio-Fiction

my must reads

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

The Snow Leopard

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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