Books & films — Everest
The guidebooks, expedition accounts and films worth your time before Everest.
Plan the climb
Our note:The one planning book that covers all seven (and both eighths) in one volume, by a guide who has led them. Costs and logistics have moved on; the route descriptions and the order-of-climbing advice have not.
Our note:Our own guidebook to the mountain, written for people planning to go rather than to read about it: routes, seasons, logistics and what a permit actually buys.
A Concise Guide to the Everest Base Camp Trek has been prepared to help anyone…
Our note:A large, beautifully drawn non-fiction picture book (geology, Sherpa life, the first ascent, the rubbish problem) for readers of eight and up. The best children's introduction to the mountain.
The book describes the author's Everest trek in autumn 1985. He travelled there for five…
A Trekking Guide of the Route to the worlds Highest Mountain. This trek to Everest…
Our note:The Cicerone guide to the walk in: Base Camp, Gokyo, the Three Passes. Not a climbing guide, but the approach is a fortnight of the expedition and this is the book for it.
Here is an original and exciting new guide to the enthralling challenges of life and…
From the greatest record-breaking heights to hidden peaks beneath the sea Eyewitness Everest is an…
Our note:The expedition doctor of 1996 on treating frostbite and cerebral oedema in a tent. Medicine as it is actually practised on the mountain.
Our note:The standard reference history, expedition by expedition, from 1921 to the late 1990s. Not a book to read through; the one to have on the shelf when a question comes up.
Prologue by world-famous travel writer Tim Cahill. Recommended for Everest Base Camp trekkers, Everest aficionados…
Read the mountain
The revised National Geographic Adventure edition, published by National Geographic on 26 July 2012 —…
Our note:Hall was left for dead at 8,600 m in 2006 and walked into camp the next morning. The most matter-of-fact account of what hypoxia does to a mind, written by the mind it happened to.
After reaching the summit of Mount Everest in 1982, photographer Patrick Morrow decided to stand…
Despite over 1500 ascents, the mystique of the Everest remains. An obsession for some, a…
A searching, uplifting memoir by the celebrated, groundbreaking climber: a journey of overcoming where the…
Wer heute den Mount Everest, den höchsten Berg der Erde, besteigen möchte, braucht dafür weder…
Our note:The history of Himalayan climbing told from the Sherpa and Balti side for once, who actually fixed the ropes and carried the loads on the famous ascents, Everest included.
"Beyond Everest: One Sherpa's Summit and Hope for Nepal" tells the unique and improbable story…
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of an enduring Everest mystery, this book sheds new light on…
Our note:How guiding on Everest went from Hall and Fischer to the Nepali-owned operators who run most of the mountain today. The book to read before comparing operators.
An authoritative, myth-piercing study of the world-famous explorer George Mallory, who disappeared on Mount Everest…
«8 тысяч метров над уровнем мозга» — это история не про спорт. Она про нашу…
"'Everest Mountain Guide' follows the career of Kiwi mountaineer, Guy Cotter, who has been leading…
Being Unstoppable is the first book in the 7 Summits to Success series. It is…
The dramatic and inspiring account of the very first attempt to climb Mount Everest, published…
On the 23rd of May 2019, Hakan Bulgurlu became one of the fortunate few to…
"Summiting Mt Everest takes a lot of commitment and a serious level of physical fitness.…
Because It's There: To Climb Mount Everest is a memoir of Aleksey Berzon. This book…
राष्ट्रीय स्तर की वॉलीबॉल खिलाड़ी अरुणिमा सिन्हा के आगे उज्ज्वल भविष्य था। तभी एक दिन…
The husband and wife behind the popular Earls Family Vlogs share their inspiring love story…
In the late morning of May 29, 1953, the sun was shining brightly and a…
In his autobiography, Pat Falvey – one of Ireland’s most prolific adventurers – tells the…
There is but one aim: the summit, the summit of Mount Everest. What starts with…
Edmund Hillary – A Biography is the story of the New Zealand beekeeper who climbed…
In Everest Untold Conroy relives the tragedies by sharing notes from his personal diary as…
Everest - It's not about the summit, is a remarkable account of a lifelong goal…
In Follow My Footsteps, Sara Safari and Jeffrey Kottler recount the thrilling tale of Sara's…
The highest mountain on the planet brings out the best in people – and the…
Nasuh Mahruki was the first Turkish climber to stand on the summit of Everest, in…
Christine Janin on Everest and on what she did afterwards — she founded À Chacun…
Our note:A client on Rob Hall's 1996 team who turned round below the summit. The third account of that day, and the one about the decision the others did not make.
"Former Navy rescue swimmer Brian Dickinson was roughly 1,000 feet from the summit of Mount…
Arunima Sinha lost a leg after being thrown from a train, and in May 2013…
An interactive adventure like no other! On this epic climb up Mount Everest, readers are…
Joseph Corso, the world's greatest mountain climber and CEO of Xtreme Adventures, had called it…
Reaching the summit of Earth's highest peak, Mount Everest, is a feat that most will…
Our note:Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature (2013).
The Paris Wife meets Into Thin Air in this breathtaking novel of love and obsession,…
Gerry Roach's quest for the Seven Summits spanned four decades and went far beyond the…
Reaching the top of the world in 1953 was one of the most significant achievements…
Reveals for the first time the full, startling facts that led to the tragedy. Graham…
Aventuras y desventuras por los 5 continentes, protagonizado por Jesús Calleja. « Mi ascensión al…
The inside story of the deadly 2006 climbing season on Everest On May 15, 2006,…
The first comprehensive history of Himalayan mountaineering in fifty years offers detailed, original accounts of…
Our note:Harry's own account, in Dutch, of three Everest expeditions: what the mountain is like from inside a team rather than from a base-camp headline.
Ilgvars Pauls's diary of what he saw, felt and made sense of in the mountains,…
Our note:Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature (2006).
Oswald Oelz on the Swiss expeditions to Everest and Lhotse in 1952 and 1956 —…
Alan Hobson and Jamie Clarke went to Everest three times before reaching the summit in…
Literacy focus: vocabulary, identifying prefixes and suffixes, using descriptive words, decoding compound words, following a…
A extraordinária história da escalada à montanha mais alta do planeta. Em 1999, João Garcia…
When the research team led by Eric Simonson found George Mallory's body high on Everest…
Our note:Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature (2002).
Contains the author's recollections and diary entries of his achievements climbing the world's highest mountains,…
The German edition of Ghosts of Everest, published by Goldmann in 2001 — the 1999…
This text focuses on why people climb Everest and what they find up there. The…
The German audiobook of Ghosts of Everest, read for Hoffmann und Campe in 2000: the…
Only one in four people who attempt Everest are successful, and of those few the…
"My father's greatest living heroes were John Glenn and Jim Whittaker--a physical giant with a…
On May 10, 1996, Lene Gammelgaard became the first Scandinavian woman to reach the summit…
Messner’s account of the 1978 ascent of Everest with Peter Habeler — the first time…
Our note:Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature (1998).
Combining travel writing with an insight of the social and environmental problems caused by climbers,…
Our note:Simpson on what 1996 said about commercial Everest and about climbers walking past the dying. Angry, and still the argument the mountain has not settled.
Featuring scores of never-before-published images, including the first taken from the top of the world…
Mauricio Purto’s account of the Chilean route on Everest, published in Spanish by El Mercurio…
Christine Janin was the first French woman to reach the summit of Everest, in October…
Le 26 septembre 1988, à 14 h 30, Jean-Pierre Frachon posait le pied sur le…
Adrenaline Classics continues to bring to the fore the work of the father of modern…
Messners eigener Bericht über die erste Alleinbesteigung des Everest, im August 1980 von der tibetischen…
On 30 January 1981 Joe Tasker and Ade Burgess stood at 24,000 feet on the…
'Everest by fair means – that is the human dimension, and that is what interests…
"One morning in the spring of 1953 two men set foot on the highest point…
In three books, Everest the Hard Way (1976), Everest South-West Face (1973) and Everest the…
When Chris Bonington and his team set out in August 1975 to climb the South…
Our note:The 1963 American traverse (up the West Ridge, down the South Col) told by one of the two who did it. Short, unshowy, and the best-written Everest book there is.
Our note:Morris was the Times correspondent at Base Camp in 1953 and got the news to London for the Coronation. Short, and the best writing to come out of that expedition.
'Many of these drawings are from sketches in my diary of the expedition. Others were…
In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest. They climbed…
Frank Smythe's Camp Six is one of the greatest Everest accounts ever written. It is…
What happened to George Mallory and Andrew Irvine on Mount Everest in 1924? Did they…
Watch
Our note:The IMAX team was on the mountain during the 1996 storm and kept filming. The footage of the Icefall and the Lhotse Face is still the best there is.
18-min documentary directed by Geertjan Lassche about Mingma G (Mingma Gyalje Sherpa) and his family…
Feature documentary (Believe Limited, dir. Patrick James Lynch) following Chris Bombardier, the first person with…
Wszystko robi się źle na tej górze. Źle się chodzi, źle się oddycha, źle śpi…
Our note:The 1996 disaster as a feature film, with the South Col and the Hillary Step built at scale. The mountain geography is unusually accurate; the characterisation is Hollywood's.
Discovery TV documentary following Ogwyn's planned Everest wingsuit BASE jump; the jump was cancelled after…
A Dutch Picture Industry documentary directed by Milan Collin, produced by Kevin Augello, Milan Collin…
Our note:Three seasons following Russell Brice's north-side expeditions client by client. Reality television, and also the most detailed picture of a commercial Everest climb ever broadcast.
The 7 summits as a project
Gerry Roach's quest for the Seven Summits spanned four decades and went far beyond the…
Geoff Tabin climbed the highest point of every continent, one of the first handful of…
More than fifty expeditions across all seven continents - by land, sea and air -…
Whether you're a parent, teacher, or young adventurer, this book is an ideal gift to…
EL NÚMERO SIETE ES LA EXPRESIÓN de algunas realidades naturales que nos rodean: las notas…
On May 6, 2014 Ryan Waters accomplished something that has not been replicated since. He…
“En este hermoso diario, mi querido amigo Paco Monedero nos traslada a una de sus…
Homme de famille et homme d’affaires, Bruno Rodi a aussi le voyage dans le sang.…
ABENTEUER SEVEN SUMMITS - Helga Hengge hat als erste deutsche Frau die Seven Summits bestiegen.…
El primer chileno en escalar las cumbres más altas de cada continente narra sus increíbles…
Most of us can watch an old episode of the holiday programme Wish You Were…
Dreams of a Refugee tells Mostafa's remarkable story, one of extraordinary faith and positivity. His…
Pakistani documentary directed by Jawad Sharif, produced/written by her brother Mirza Ali Baig (Bipolar Films).…
Funny, entertaining, educational and inspiring especially for adventurers who don't have a lot of extra…
Two experts who have summited the tallest mountain on each of the seven continents--and scaled…
Et helt unikt friluftsliv! Cecilie Skog er en av verdens fremste kvinnelige eventyrere. Hun er…
L'aventurier et alpiniste François-Guy Thivierge est un des rares êtres humains à avoir gravi les…
7 Summits: A Nurse's Quest to Conquer Mountaineering and Life tells the story of how…
In four years, Parfet accomplished what very few people had done before--he climbed the highest…
Pat Falvey is Ireland's best-known mountaineer-cum-adventurer. This book describes his climbs on the major peaks…
Skills, training & medicine for any mountain
Not about this peak, but you will want them on it. A short selection; the Library holds the rest.
Our note:Nobody teaches descending, and it is where most of the accidents are. Kirkpatrick's manual on rappelling, downclimbing and getting off a mountain in bad weather.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Foreword by Malcolm Gladwell Limits are an illusion: discover…
* For intermediate-to-advanced backcountry skiers. * Includes trip planning, navigation, fitness, and avalanche safety information,…
Our note:Pocket-sized, by a physician who works at altitude. What AMS, HAPE and HACE look like, what to do, and (the part people skip) when to go down.
* For climbers who know the basics and are ready to venture at higher altitudes.…
"Unique among survival books…stunning…enthralling. Deep Survival makes compelling, and chilling, reading." —Denver Post Laurence Gonzales’s…
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