Recs if you like Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life...
Nonfiction that's actually fun to read
These are some of my favorites and books I want to read--nonfiction that reads like fiction or is otherwise compelling. If you're intimidated by books on history, science, memoir, or other subgenres in nonfiction, start here.
get in loser, we're going mountaineering
Books to Give Your TBR Some Height
Nonfiction books on rock climbing and mountaineering.
Recommendations welcome!
Women on (mountain) Top!
Nonfiction focusing on women rock climbers and mountaineers. Most of the climbing and mountaineering literary canon is extremely male-centric. This list, focused on women's accomplishments in the outdoors, seeks to help move their stories into the spotlight.
pov: ur obsessed with everest & k2
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
