Reading List
Alfred Gregory – Photographs from Everest to Africa
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★
Read Post
A Long Walk in the Himalaya – Garry Weare
Read Post
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush – Eric Newby
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★★
Read Post
A Slender Thread: Escaping Disaster in the Himalaya – Stephen Venables
Read Post
Alive in the Death Zone – Lincoln Hall
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★★
Read Post
All 14 Eight-Thousanders - Reinhold Messner
Read Post
Among the Mountains: travels through Asia – Wilfred Thesiger
The Mountain Library rating: ★★
Read Post
An Unexpected Light: travels in Afghanistan – Jason Elliot
Read Post
Annapurna: A Woman’s Place – Arlene Blum
Read Post
Beyond the Mountain – Steve House
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★
Read Post
Celestial Realm: The Yellow Mountains of China – Wang Wusheng
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★
Read Post
Dark Shadows Falling – Joe Simpson
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★
Read Post
Dead Lucky: life after death on Mount Everest – Lincoln Hall
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★★
Read Post
Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk – Jeff Connor
Read Post
Eiger Dreams – Jon Krakauer
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★
Read Post
Empires of the Indus – Alice Albinia
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★★
Read Post
Enduring Patagonia – Gregory Crouch
Read Post
Everest from Sea to Summit – Tim Macartney-Snape
Read Post
Everest South West Face – Chris Bonington
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★
Read Post
Everest: Summit of Achievement – Stephen Venables
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★
Read Post
Everest the Hard Way – Chris Bonington
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★
Read Post
Expeditions – Andrew Lindblade
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★
Read Post
FEAR No Boundary – Lincoln Hall with Sue Fear
Read Post
Higher Than The Eagle Soars – Stephen Venables
Read Post
High Exposure – David Breashears
Read Post
Hokusai: Mountains and Water, Flowers and Birds – Matthi Forrer
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★
Read Post
In Patagonia – Bruce Chatwin
Read Post
Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★★
Read Post
Kiss or Kill – Mark Twight
Read Post
Kongur, China’s Elusive Summit – Chris Bonnington
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★
Read Post
Lost Horizon – James Hilton
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★★
Read Post
Mountain Solitudes – Aat Vervoorn
Read Post
Meetings with Mountains – Stephen Venables
Read Post
Mountaineering in Antarctica: climbing in the frozen south – Damien Gildea
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★★
Read Post
Read Author Interview
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination – Robert Macfarlane
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★★
Read Post
Mountains of the World – John Cleare
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★
Read Post
Mustang: A Lost Tibetan Kingdom – Michel Peissel
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★
Read Post
My Journey to Lhasa – Alexandra David-Neel
Read Post
Nanda Devi – Hugh Thomson
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★
Read Post
No Way Down: life and death on K2 – Graham Bowley
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★
Read Post
Read Author Interview
One Mountain Thousand Summits – Freddie Wilkinson
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★
Read Post
Over the Edge – Greg Child
Read Post
Postcards from the ledge – Greg Child
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★
Read Post
Sacred Summits – Peter Boardman
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★
Read Post
Seven Summits – Steve Bell
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★
Read Post
Seven Years in Tibet – Heinrich Harrer
Read Post
Sky Burial – Xinran
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★
Read Post
Souvenirs from High Places – Joe Bensen
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★
Read Post
Summits and Secrets – Kurt Diemberger
Read Post
Tenzing: Hero of Everest – Ed Douglas
Read Post
The Ascent of Everest – John Hunt
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★
Read Post
The Beckoning Silence – Joe Simpson
Read Post
The Boardman Tasker Omnibus – Peter Boardman, Joe Tasker
Read Post
The Carpet Wars – Christopher Kremmer
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★
Read Post
The Eiger Sanction – Trevanian (Rodney William Whitaker)
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★
Read More
The Folded Earth – Anuradha Roy
Read Post
The Hut Builder – Laurence Fearnley
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★
Read Post
The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★
Read Post
The Last Barbarians – Michel Peissel
Read Post
The Last True Explorer – Philip Temple
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★
Read Post
The Mountains of My Life – Walter Bonatti
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★★
Read Post
The Mountains of Tibet – Mordicai Gerstein
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★
Read Post
The Philosopher’s Dog – Raimond Gaita
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★
Read Post
The Shining Mountain – Peter Boardman
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★★
Read Post
The Snow Leopard – Peter Matthiessen
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★★
Read Post
The Third Man Factor – John Geiger
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★★
Read Post
The Weekender Effect: hyperdevelopment in mountain towns – Robert Sandford
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★
Read Post
Thin White Line – Andy Cave
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★
Read Post
This Game of Ghosts – Joe Simpson
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★★
Read Post
Three Cups of Tea – Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★
Read Post
Tintin in Tibet: The Adventures of Tintin – Hergé
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★★
Read Post
To a Mountain in Tibet – Colin Thubron
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★
Read Post
Top Climbs of the World – Garth Hattingh
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★
Read Post
Touching the Void – Joe Simpson
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★★
Read Post
Under the Mountain Wall – Peter Matthiessen
Read Post
Usborne First Travellers: Mountains – Angela Wilkes
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★★
Read Post
Where the Mountain Casts its Shadow – Maria Coffey
Read Post
White Limbo – Lincoln Hall
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★
Read Post
World Climbing: images from the edge – Simon Carter
The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★★
Read Post
