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The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

As the climbers of the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster vanished into thin air, one man had the courage to bring them down alive...

On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by expert leaders attempt…

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Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season

The inside story of the deadly 2006 climbing season on Everest

On May 15, 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past …

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The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest

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“If you’re only going to read one Everest book this decade, make it The Third Pole. . . . A riveting adventure.”— Outside

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K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain

A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of No Shortcuts to the Top

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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As…

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High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2 (Adrenaline Books)

In this pioneering anthology, Clint Willis presents 75 years of great writing -- from Neil O'Dell to Jon Krakauer -- on the fabled peaks. Here are stories of two British expeditions to Everest in the …

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No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks

This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.

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Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest

As featured in the upcoming motion picture Everest, starring Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Emily Watson, Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, and Jake Gyllenhaal

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The Mountain: My Time on Everest

In national bestseller The Mountain , world-renowned climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs and cowriter David Roberts paint a vivid portrait of obsession, dedication, and human achievement in a t…

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Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of t…

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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

From bestselling author Jon Krakauer, a stark, powerful, meticulously reported narrative about a series of sexual assaults at the University of Montana — stories that illuminate the human drama behin…

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The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mt. Everest

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Annapurna: A Woman's Place

In August 1978, thirteen women left San Francisco for the Nepal Himalaya to make history as the first Americans—and the first women—to scale the treacherous slopes of Annapurna I, the world’s tenth hi…

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Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)

The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork...

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democ…

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Interesting Times (Discworld, #17; Rincewind, #5)

Mighty battles! Revolution! Death! War! (and his sons Terror and Panic, and daughter Clancy)

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Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World

Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on gu…

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Ascent into Hell

There is but one aim: the summit, the summit of Mount Everest.

What starts with a trouble-free trek into the Nepalese highlands explodes into a gripping tale of hardship, peril, and adversity. Pushed…

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Rising: Becoming the First North American Woman on Everest

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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

"Unique among survival books…stunning…enthralling. Deep Survival makes compelling, and chilling, reading." ― Denver Post Laurence Gonzales’s bestselling Deep Survival has helped save lives from the de…

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