Nonfiction books on rock climbing and mountaineering.
created by katfish
last updated November, 2025
This Game of Ghosts
Joe Simpson
Dark Shadows Falling
Storms of Silence
Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World
Lynn Hill
Starlight and Storm: The Conquest of the Great North Faces of the Alps (Modern Library Exploration)
Gaston Rébuffat
The Last Step: The American Ascent of K2
Rick Ridgeway
The Shining Mountain
Peter Boardman
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
Eric Newby
Dead Reckoning: Learning from Accidents in the Outdoors
Emma Walker
Queen of the Mountaineers: The Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman
Cathryn J. Prince
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
Nick Heil
The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier
Jim Davidson
The Ghosts of K2: The Epic Saga of the First Ascent
Mick Conefrey
K2 the Savage Mountain
Charles S. Houston
The High Sierra: A Love Story
Kim Stanley Robinson
Forget Me Not: A Memoir
Jennifer Lowe-Anker
Hidden Mountains: Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong
Michael Wejchert
Savage Summit
Jennifer Jordan
No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
Ed Viesturs
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
Peter Zuckerman
Edge of the Map: The Mountain Life of Christine Boskoff
Johanna Garton
A Fine Line: Searching for Balance Among Mountains
Graham Zimmerman
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
Anatoli Boukreev
The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering
Daniel Light
Alone on the Wall
Alex Honnold
There and Back: Photographs from the Edge
Jimmy Chin
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2
Graham Bowley
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
Robert Macfarlane
the Mountains of My Life
Walter Bonatti
Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life
Arlene Blum
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