Climbing Survival

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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 244 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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    • 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 422 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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    • 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 13,069 ratings
    • Into Thin Air is the definitive, personal account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest...

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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 60 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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    • 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 150 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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    • A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within
    • By: Cory Richards
    • Narrated by: Cory Richards
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • The Color of Everything is a thrilling tale of risk and adventure, written by a man who has done it all: he’s stood at the top of the world, climbed imposing mountain faces alone in the dark and become the only American to summit an 8,000-meter peak in winter....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Leif Whittaker
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • My Old Man and the Mountain is Leif Whittaker's engaging and humorous story of what it was like to "grow up Whittaker" - the youngest son of Jim Whittaker and Dianne Roberts, in an extended family of accomplished climbers....

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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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    • The Mountain Life of Christine Boskoff
    • By: Johanna Garton
    • Narrated by: Emily Durante
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Edge of the Map is equal parts inspiring, dramatic, and heartbreaking. One of America's greatest high altitude mountaineers, Christine Boskoff was at the top of her career when she and her partner perished in an avalanche in 2006....

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    • Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong
    • By: Michael Wejchert
    • Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • In 2018, two couples set out on a climbing expedition to Alaska’s Hidden Mountains, one of the last wild ranges in North America. A rarity in modern climbing, the peaks were nearly unexplored and untouched....

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    • The Life of Climber Jim Donini
    • By: Geoff Powter, Michael Kennedy - foreword
    • Narrated by: Brian Wiggins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Survival Is Not Assured, award-winning author Geoff Powter dives into Donini's remarkable life story, exploring his groundbreaking climbs and his tumultuous experiences both on and off the rock.

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    • Adventures at the Edge of the Map (Patagonia)
    • By: Rick Ridgeway
    • Narrated by: Rick Ridgeway
    • Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 327 ratings
    • At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he’s spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents....

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    • A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits
    • By: Tommy Caldwell
    • Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,100 ratings
    • On January 14, 2015, Tommy Caldwell, along with his partner, Kevin Jorgeson, summited what is regarded as the hardest climb in history - Yosemite's nearly vertical 3,000-foot Dawn Wall....

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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 1,407 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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    • 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
    • By: Nando Parrado, Vince Rause
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,001 ratings
    • A harrowing, moving memoir of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes—and one man’s quest to lead them all home....

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    • Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering
    • By: Daniel Light
    • Narrated by: Richard Trinder
    • Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-24
    • Language: English
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    • From the smoking volcanoes of South America to the great snowy ranges of the Himalaya, The White Ladder follows a cast of extraordinary characters—conquistadors and captains, scientists and surveyors, alpinists and adventurers—up the slopes of the world's highest peaks.

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    • The West Ridge
    • By: Thomas Hornbein, Jon Krakauer - foreword
    • Narrated by: Tom Beyer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • In 1963, Jim Whittaker became the first American to summit Everest via the South Col route.

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    • How I Carved My Own Path to the Top of the World
    • By: Kilian Jornet
    • Narrated by: Steven Brand
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • The most accomplished mountain runner of all time contemplates his record-breaking climbs of Mount Everest in this profound memoir - an intellectual and spiritual journey that moves from the earth’s highest peak to the soul’s deepest reaches....

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    • The Life and Adventures of Bradford Washburn, America's Boldest Mountaineer
    • By: David Roberts
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • In The Last of His Kind, renowned adventure writer David Roberts gives readers a spellbinding history of mountain climbing in the twentieth century as told through the biography of Brad Washburn, legendary mountaineering pioneer and photographer....

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    • By: Steve House, Reinhold Messner - foreword
    • Narrated by: Steve House
    • Series: Patagonia
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 410 ratings
    • Steve House built his reputation on ascents throughout the Alps, Canada, Alaska, the Karakoram, and the Himalaya that have expanded possibilities of style, speed, and difficulty....

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