Library staff recommendations

Books

Alone on the Wall by Alex Honnold with David Roberts, 2016

Everest: The West Ridge by Tom Hornbein, 1965 (2013 ed)

The Push by Tommy Caldwell, 2017

The Adventure Gap by James Edward Mills, 2014

Honouring high places: the mountain life of Junko Tabei by Junko Tabei and Helen Y. Rolfe, 2017

A Youth Wasted Climbing by David Smart, 2015

Touching the Void by Joe Simpson, 1988

Climbing Free by Lynn Hill, 2002

Limits of the Known by David Roberts, 2018

Drawn: the art of ascent by Jeremy Collins, 2015

Annapurna, a Woman’s Place by Arlene Blum, 1980

Glorious Failures by The Mountaineers Books, 2001

Courage and Misfortune by the Mountaineers Books, 2001

The Mountain of My Fear by David Roberts, 1968

Ueli Steck: My Life in Climbing by Ueli Steck and Karen Steinbach, 2018

Sherpa: the memoir of Ang Tharkey by Ang Tharkay, 2017

Starlight and Storm by Gaston Rébuffat, 1968

Endurance: an Epic of Polar Adventure by F. A. Worsley, 1931

Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Mount Everest disaster by John Krakauer, 1997

The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan and the climbing life by Mark Synnott, 2018

Art of Freedom: The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka by Bernadette McDonald, 2017

Articles

Favorites of the AAC Librarians
REI, 2019

Doctor of Climbology: 33 Must-Read Climbing Books
Climbing article by Dougald MacDonald, 2015

Rock and Ice Staff Picks: Our Favorite Climbing Books
Rock and Ice, 2019

49 of the Best Climbing Books of All Time
The Adventure Junkies

Best Mountaineering and Rock Climbing Books
Goodreads