| 1. |  | Into Thin Air
from Random House Audio
Price: $24.92
Customer Review:
I was on lunch break at a previous job and reading Walden Pond by Henry David Thoreau for the second time in my life. My co-worker comes up to me and said, "is that a good book, I've never read it?". I told him it was a book I could relate to, because I too like being outside and surrounded by... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills
from Mountaineers Books
Price: $19.77
Customer Review:
The product is in good shape, as the seller said it would be, but did not arrive until the very last day of the time allowed to ship. (4 weeks after i ordered it) | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Official Guides to the Appalachian Trail)
from Broadway
Price: $10.17
Customer Review:
Having fell in love with the audio version of Bryson's The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, I decided to give A Walk in the Woods a try. This audio is also read by the author.
Bill Bryson moved to Hanover, New Hampshire, and soon after realizes the the Appalachian Trail, at least part of... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes
from Yale University Press
Price: $26.37
Customer Review:
Much of the book is long on words (may need dictionary at you side) and short of interest to hold great appeal. I'm still working my way through the book with the help of Wikipedia. This tome has over 100 pages of notes and bibliography. However, the subject matter, the Himalaya, is fascinating and... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Touching the Void (Vintage Classics)
from Vintage Classics
Customer Review:
Joe has a taut, spare style of writing. Perhaps the only negative one can point to is that he goes a little too much into techno-speak on mountaineering. However, this is forgivable since that was the audience he was writing for. That the book became a general public bestseller was a surprise. In a... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
from Broadway
Price: $11.20
Customer Review:
Every day I am reminded of the beauty of the mountains living in Castle Rock, Colorado. During some surfing on Amazon.com, I ran across this book about climbing the 14 highestmountains in the world. These mountains are all over 26,000 feet. The man who accomplished this task is Ed Viesturs, who was... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain
from Mountaineers Books
Price: $12.89
Customer Review:
Excellent book. Bruce Tremper does a great job of explaining the complexities of avalanches in very understandable terms. I bought 3 copies for my climbing and hiking partners -- the life they may someday save could well be mine. | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | Mastering Mountain Bike Skills
from Human Kinetics Publishers
Price: $15.61
Customer Review:
Don't be fooled by the 90s cover, this is an up-to-date manual for doing...manuals. It is informative, descriptive, and unlike many books in this genre, entertaining to read. The book was written by a rider that, with the help of Brian Lopes, transformed himself from an amateur to a semi-pro... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | Eiger Dreams
from Random House Audio
Customer Review:
I was impressed enough by INTO THIN AIR, his '97 account of the previous year's Everest climbing disaster, that picking up a used copy of EIGER DREAMS was a done deal. I didn't pay enough attention when buying it, however( at a local used bookstore) to learn that it was a compilation of... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
from Holt Paperbacks
Price: $10.20
Customer Review:
If you are into mountaineering books, Dark Summit is one to read. I have been intriqued by why climbers are so obsessed with climbing the higher peaks over 8000 meters. Iam an avid hiker and climb only moderate peaks. I became obsessed myself with the tragedy of 1996 with Scott Fischer and Rob... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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