Climbing Memoir

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    • By: Alex Honnold, David Roberts
    • Narrated by: Andrew Eiden, Will Damron
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,428 ratings
    • Only a few years ago, Alex Honnold was little known beyond a small circle of hardcore climbers. Today, at the age of 30, he is probably the most famous adventure athlete in the world....

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    • Lessons from the Mountains
    • By: Jeremy Jones
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Not a technical guide on snowboarding but, rather, a very personal approach to how to think about mountains, snow, and adventure, The Art of Shralpinism reflects the remarkable journey of snowboarding superstar Jeremy Jones....

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    • A Life in Mountain Rescue
    • By: Bree Loewen
    • Narrated by: Rachel Perry
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Mountain search-and-rescue volunteer Bree Loewen's to-do list isn't quite the same as most people's....

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    • Tragic Ambitions on Everest
    • By: Anatoli Boukreev
    • Narrated by: Richard Davidson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 241 ratings
    • Anatoli Boukreev’s first-hand account of the worst human disaster in the history of Mt. Everest will hold listeners spellbound....

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    • Memoirs of Everest and Beyond
    • By: Jim Whittaker
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 506 ratings
    • In May of 1963, Seattle mountaineer Jim Whittaker stepped into world history by becoming the first American to summit Mount Everest. This audiobook is Jim's courageous, no-punches-pulled autobiography and a look at a peripatetic, sometimes difficult life....

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    • My Journey Home from Everest
    • By: Beck Weathers, Stephen G. Michaud
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 418 ratings
    • In 1996, Beck Weathers and a climbing team pushed toward the summit of Mount Everest. Then a storm exploded on the mountain, ripping the team to shreds, forcing brave men to scratch and crawl for their lives. In this powerful memoir, Weathers describes his escape....

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    • An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest's Deadliest Day
    • By: Jennifer Hull
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Dave Hahn, a local of Taos, New Mexico, is a legendary figure in mountaineering. The 2015 expedition he would lead came just one short year after the notorious Khumbu Icefall avalanche claimed the lives of 16 Sherpas....

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    • By: Alex Honnold, David Roberts
    • Narrated by: Andrew Eiden, Will Damron
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,033 ratings
    • On June 3rd, 2017, Alex Honnold became the first person to free solo Yosemite's El Capitan - to scale the wall without rope, a partner, or any protective gear. Alone on the Wall recounts the most astonishing achievements of Honnold's extraordinary life and career....

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    • Adventures in Reaching the Summit
    • By: Robert Macfarlane
    • Narrated by: James A. Gillies
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert Macfarlane reveals how the mystery of the world's highest places has come to grip the Western imagination....

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    • From the Alps to Annapurna
    • By: Lionel Terray, David Roberts - foreword
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • Frenchman 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 Adventure magazine....

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    • A Lifelong Obsession with Yosemite's Most Iconic Climb
    • By: Hans Florine, Jayme Moye
    • Narrated by: Hans Florine
    • Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 276 ratings
    • Hans Florine holds the speed record on the Nose route of El Capitan, a 3,000-foot granite cliff in Yosemite Valley that's considered the Everest of the rock-climbing world. But Florine's story is not one of super-human athletic prowess; it's one of persistence and dogged determination....

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    • By: Joe Simpson
    • Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Daniel Weyman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,464 ratings
    • Before climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were able to reach the unclimbed West Face of the remote Siula Grande, disaster struck....

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    • Climbing to Extinction
    • By: Brian Hall
    • Narrated by: Sam Stafford
    • Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Through the seventies and into the mid-eighties, a cohort of young climbers challenged the siege mentality of their seniors on high mountains in the Greater Ranges with fast moving, lightweight expeditions run on a shoestring. Brian Hall was one of them....

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    • A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
    • By: Jon Krakauer
    • Narrated by: Philip Franklin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-98
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13,054 ratings
    • Into Thin Air is the definitive, personal account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest...

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    • A Memoir of Skiing, Climbing, and Life
    • By: Louis Dawson
    • Narrated by: Chris Abell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In this riveting memoir, renowned mountaineer Lou Dawson shares a tumultuous coming-of-age journey, from the flatlands of Texas to the Colorado mountains, steeped in the counterculture revolution of the 1960s.

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    • By: David Roberts
    • Narrated by: David Chandler
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • David Roberts, "veteran mountain climber and chronicler of adventures" (Washington Post), has spent his career documenting voyages to the most extreme landscapes on earth.....

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    • An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier
    • By: Jim Davidson, Kevin Vaughan
    • Narrated by: Jim Davidson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 208 ratings
    • On June 21, 1992, two best friends summited Mount Rainier. Within hours, their exquisite accomplishment would be overshadowed by tragedy....

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    • Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
    • By: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,405 ratings
    • 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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    • Climbing and Skiing the Seven Summits
    • By: Kit DesLauriers
    • Narrated by: Gina Rogers
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • In 2006, Kit DesLauriers made history by becoming the first person to climb - and then ski - from the summit of each continent's highest mountain, the famed Seven Summits....

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