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