When reading the reviews about Conquistadors of the Useless: From the Alps to Annapurna.Terray, LionelMountaineers Books2001Frenchman Lionel Terray is one of mountaineering history's greatest alpinists, and his autobiography, Conquistadors of the Useless, stands among the "100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time", according to National Geographic Adventuremagazine. Following World War II, when France desperately needed successes to heal its wounds, Terray emerged as a national hero, conquering summits atop the planet's highest mountains.This biography of Lionel Terry is filled with first-time feats and acts of bravery in the face of unspeakable odds. He climbed with legends such as Maurice Herzog, Gaston Rebuffat, and Louis Lachenal. He made first ascents in the Alps, Alaska, the Andes, and the Himalaya. Terray's gripping story captures the energy of an optimistic world shaking off the restraints of war and austerity. It's a mountaineering classic.97808988677879780898867787Conquistadors of the UselessBiographyen I stumbled on few lists of climbing classic films and some other media. Since I am a big fan of climbing books and films, I thought to provide a links to some of those. Several of the books I've previously mentioned are mentioned on many of those lists.
Particularly often listed are the following books previously mentioned on this site: Conquistadors of the Useless: From the Alps to Annapurna.Terray, LionelMountaineers Books2001Frenchman Lionel Terray is one of mountaineering history's greatest alpinists, and his autobiography, Conquistadors of the Useless, stands among the "100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time", according to National Geographic Adventuremagazine. Following World War II, when France desperately needed successes to heal its wounds, Terray emerged as a national hero, conquering summits atop the planet's highest mountains.This biography of Lionel Terry is filled with first-time feats and acts of bravery in the face of unspeakable odds. He climbed with legends such as Maurice Herzog, Gaston Rebuffat, and Louis Lachenal. He made first ascents in the Alps, Alaska, the Andes, and the Himalaya. Terray's gripping story captures the energy of an optimistic world shaking off the restraints of war and austerity. It's a mountaineering classic.97808988677879780898867787Conquistadors of the UselessBiographyen, The Shining Mountain, 1st Vintage Books Ed.Boardman, Peter & Tasker, JoeVintage Books1985'It's a preposterous plan. Still, if you do get up it, I think it'll be the hardest thing that's been done in the Himalaya.'So spoke Chris Bonington when Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker presented him with their plan to tackle the unclimbed West Wall of Changabang - the Shining Mountain - in 1976. Bonington's was one of the more positive responses; most felt the climb impossibly hard, especially for a two-man, lightweight expedition. This was, after all, perhaps the most fearsome and technically challenging granite wall in the Garhwal Himalaya and an ascent - particularly one in a lightweight style - would be more significant than anything done on Everest at the time. The idea had been Joe Tasker's. He had photographed the sheer, shining, white granite sweep of Changabang's West Wall on a previous expedition and asked Pete to return with him the following year.Tasker contributes a second voice throughout Boardman's story, which starts with acclimatisation, sleeping in a Salford frozen-food store, and progresses through three nights of hell, marooned in hammocks during a storm, to moments of exultation at the variety and intricacy of the superb, if punishingly difficult, climbing. It is a story of how climbing a mountain can become an all-consuming goal, of the tensions inevitable in forty days of isolation on a two-man expedition; as well as a record of the moment of joy upon reaching the summit ridge against all odds.First published in 1978, The Shining Mountain is Peter Boardman's first book. It is a very personal and honest story that is also amusing, lucidly descriptive, very exciting, and never anything but immensely readable.03947292930394729293The Shining MountainBiographyen, either as standalone or as part of The Boardman Tasker Omnibus: Savage Arena, the Shining Mountain, Sacred Summits, Everest the Cruel Way.Tasker, Joe; Boardman, Peter & Bonington, ChrisMountaineers Books1995Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker each two accomplished books which, deservedly, soon acquired
classic status and became required reading for all those venturing to high altitude. It is fitting that the
memorial to these two exceptional climbers and writers should take the form of the annual Boardman
Tasker Award for Mountain Literature. As for their own four books, these are now reprinted for the first
time in one volume. 97808988643669780898864366Boardman-Tasker OmnibusNon-fictionen, The White Spider, Reprint edition.Harrer, HeinrichHarper Perennial1998At 13,025 feet, the Swiss Eiger doesn't approach the height of Everest or Denali, but the sheer rise and difficulty of its 5900-foot north face keeps it in the company of the world's most celebrated peaks. At the time Harrer (Seven Years in Tibet, originally the sequel to this volume) became part of the first successful summit climb in 1938, the north face of the Eiger was considered the "last and greatest of Alpine problems" left in the world. Originally published in 1959 (with chapters added in 1964 and an index covering subsequent Eiger climbs), this riveting account of his ascent and the history of confronting the EigerAbeginning with the first fatal attempts to conquer the north face in 1935Ais a crisply written paean to the mountain where Harrer first earned recognition as a world-class climber. A simple narrative style brings to life the many obstacles faced by Eiger climbersAsnowstorms, avalanches and a continuous shower of falling rocks among them. Harrer has a Hemingwayesque appreciation of the codes, bravery and rules of conduct governing the closed world of "true mountaineers." And he reserves special contempt for the sensation-seekers who gather to watch deadly feats of climbing from the ground below. Sections that document the evolution of climbing gear (Harrer wore no crampons on his 1938 ascent) and national rivalries in the WWII-era climbing community help make this volume an important contribution to the emerging canon of mountaineering literature.97800071978429780007197842White SpiderBiographyen, Touching The Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival.Simpson, JoeVintage Books1998Concise and yet packed with detail, Touching the Void, Joe Simpson's harrowing account of near-death in the Peruvian Andes, is a compact tour de force that wrestles with issues of bravery, friendship, physical endurance, the code of the mountains, and the will to live. Simpson dedicates the book to his climbing partner, Simon Yates, and to "those friends who have gone to the mountains and have not returned." What is it that compels certain individuals to willingly seek out the most inhospitable climate on earth? To risk their lives in an attempt to leave footprints where few or none have gone before? Simpson's vivid narrative of a dangerous climbing expedition will convince even the most die-hard couch potato that such pursuits fall within the realm of the sane. As the author struggles ever higher, readers learn of the mountain's awesome power, the beautiful--and sometimes deadly--sheets of blue glacial ice, and the accomplishment of a successful ascent. And then catastrophe: the second half of Touching the Void sees Simpson at his darkest moment. With a smashed, useless leg, he and his partner must struggle down a near-vertical face--and that's only the beginning of their troubles.00997710120099771012Non-fictionen and Everest: The West Ridge, Reprint edition.Hornbein, Thomas F.Mountaineers Books1998In 1963, Jim Whittaker became the first American to summit Everest via the South Col route. Roughly two weeks after Whittaker's achievement, Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld, fellow American mountaineers on the same expedition, became the first climbers ever to summit the world's highest peak via the dangerous and forbidding West Ridge—a route on which only a handful of climbers have since succeeded.97808988661629780898866162Everest: The West RidgeBiographyen. The film High and Hallowed: Everest 1963 MountainWorld Productions20132013-09-19High and Hallowed: Everest 1963 is the deeper story of the greatest Himalayan climb in American mountaineering history. Profiling the bold and visionary efforts of the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition, the film examines the sheer commitment, step-by-step struggle and lasting impact of the first American ascent of Mt. Everest and the pioneering first ascent of the West Ridge. Five decades later, High and Hallowed: Everest 1963 journeys back to Everest to discover if the essence of risk, adventure and the unknown that drew the first Americans to the summit still exists on Everest today.David Morton; Jake NortonKristen Elliott (associate producer); David Morton (producer); Jake Norton (producer); Natalie Smith (associate producer)Melissa Arnot (Himself - Climber); Barry Bishop (Himself - Climber); Brent Bishop (Himself - Climber); Norman Dyhrenfurth (Himself - Climber); Ngawang Gombu (Himself - Climber); Dave Hahn (Himself - Climber); Tom Hornbein (Himself - Climber); Lute Jerstad (Himself - Climber); Jon Krakauer (Himself - Narrator); Charley Mace (Himself - Climber); Reinhold Messner (Himself - Climber); David Morton (Himself - Climber); Jake Norton (Himself - Climber); Willi Unsoeld (Himself - Climber); Jim Whittaker (Himself - Climber)Documentary; Adventure; History; SportMount Everest; Himalayahttp://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/HPPjqK9XEX3VtW4RWQTUD0PjDw.jpgplugin://plugin.video.youtube/?action=play_video&videoid=0gSs6__oCIg&hd=1tt3044580403875 I've previously written about, is based on the last of those three.
- Doctor of Climbology: 55 Must-Read, Must-See, and Must-Hear Climbing Stories. Doctor of Climbology is your shortcut to becoming cultured in climbing. An imperfect, unscientific guide to 55 must-read, must-see, must-hear climbing stories from masters of the art. By Dougal MacDonald at Climbing Magazine on 2015-01-30.
- Doctor of Climbology: 33 Must-Read Climbing Books. If you’re new to climbing literature, start with these definitive tales of adventure. Note: We only considered books written in or translated into English. By Dougal MacDonald at Climbing Magazine on 2015-01-30.
- Doctor of Climbology: 13 Must-Follow Climbing Websites, Blogs, and Podcasts. The Internet is full of... stuff. But a few offerings are consistently interesting, funny, or outrageous enough to keep us clicking back. We focused on independent websites, blogs, and podcasts, ignoring mainstream and social media. By Dougal MacDonald at Climbing Magazine on 2015-02-05.
- Doctor of Climbology: 9 Must-Watch Climbing Films. Doctor of Climbology is your shortcut to becoming cultured in climbing. An imperfect, unscientific guide to 55 must-read, must-see, must-hear climbing stories from masters of the art. By Dougal MacDonald at Climbing Magazine on 2015-02-10.
- The Best Mountain Book Ever Written. Well, they asked for it, proposing a panel with such an ex cathedra title as "The Best Mountain Book Ever Written." So it wasn’t surprising when Katie Ives, editor of Alpinist and the panel’s moderator, launched the discussion by calling it “a utopian and elusive project.”. By David Roberts at The Active Times on 2012-11-15.
- The top 10 books on Alpinism. "For me, the best books on Alpinism describe those who have genuinely pushed the boundaries of what is possible. Successful mountaineering literature, however, must do more than just transport the reader to an alien, frozen world through evocative prose and original metaphor. The best have emotional depth, allowing the reader to engage with the protagonists' internal thoughts and motives. Done well, the common theme of courage overcoming adversity can inspire us to seek new challenges in our own lives." - Andy Cave. By Andy Cave at The Guardian.
- 7 best books about climbing. There’s nothing like a badass story about a badass climb to make you want to chalk up some rock, or head into the mountains and spend some alone time. When you’re looking for that perfect book to lounge in your hammock and read, these titles are definitely a good place to start. At The Clymb.
- Best Mountaineering Literature. Inspired by several threads on SummitPost forums on this subject, I decided to put together my personal list of the best non-fiction mountaineering literature that I have read. The books are listed in alphabetical order by title. A description in parenthesis is given where the contents are not evident from the title. Publisher and year reflect the editions that I read and not necessarily the first publisher or first year of publication. By Augie Medina at SummitPost.
- The 10 Best Summer Climbing Reads. Summer time offers longer days and a great opportunity to dig into the adventure of climbing. For those looking for a good adventure in arm chair mountaineering, there are hundreds of options. We narrowed down 10 great choices to add to your summer reading list. At Touchstone Climbing.