Mountain Climbing Adventures

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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 148 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 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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    • Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
    • By: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,044 ratings
    • At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering, with good reason....

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    • The True Story of Four American Climbers' Kidnap and Escape in the Mountains of Central Asia
    • By: Greg Child
    • Narrated by: Armand Schultz
    • Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-02
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • Before dawn on August 12, 2000, four of America's best young rock climbers were sleeping in their portaledges high on the Yellow Wall...

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    • Ventures Among Men and Mountains
    • By: Jon Krakauer
    • Narrated by: Philip Franklin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 666 ratings
    • This is a stirring, vivid book about one of the most compelling and dangerous of all human pursuits....

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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 328 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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    • Stories of Survival from Rock, Snow and Ice (Unabridged Selections)
    • By: Clint Willis - editor
    • Narrated by: Terence Aselford, Graeme Malcolm, Nick Sampson, Kimberly Schraf, Gary Telles
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-03
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Year after year, climbers return to the world's most difficult mountains. At these places, even the most cautious climber is vulnerable to mistakes, bad weather, and bad luck, which often leads to death....

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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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    • The Story of the Andes Survivors
    • By: Piers Paul Read
    • Narrated by: Paul Ansdell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 811 ratings
    • On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes....

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    • Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna - the World's Deadliest Peak
    • By: David Roberts, Ed Viesturs
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 435 ratings
    • The bestselling author of No Shortcuts to the Top and K2 chronicles his three attempts to climb the world's tenth-highest and statistically deadliest peak, Annapurna in the Himalaya....

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    • A Life Rocked by Mountains
    • By: Barry Blanchard
    • Narrated by: Barry Blanchard
    • Series: Patagonia
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • Barry Blanchard chronicles his transformation from a poor Native American/white kid from the wrong side of the tracks to one of the most respected alpinists in the world....

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    • A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
    • By: Jon Krakauer
    • Narrated by: Jon Krakauer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,163 ratings
    • Into Thin Air is the definitive, personal account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest....

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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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    • 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 998 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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    • Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the Climbing Life
    • By: Mark Synnott
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 465 ratings
    • The Impossible Climb is an emotional drama driven by people exploring the limits of human potential and seeking a perfect, choreographed dance with nature. Honnold dared far beyond the ordinary, beyond any climber in history....

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    • The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
    • By: David Roberts
    • Narrated by: Matthew Brenher
    • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,201 ratings
    • On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp - the dogs were gone....

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    • Search and Rescue in the White Mountains
    • By: Sandy Stott
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • Sandy Stott, the "Accidents" editor at the journal of the Appalachian Mountain Club, delivers both a history and a celebration of the search and rescue workers who save countless lives in the White Mountains....

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    • Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra
    • By: Alex Messenger
    • Narrated by: Alex Messenger
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,388 ratings
    • A 600-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a 17-year-old's dream adventure, but after he is mauled by a grizzly bear, it's all about staying alive....

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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 46 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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    • By: Jon Krakauer
    • Narrated by: Jon Krakauer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-99
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 439 ratings
    • No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant hardships and victories more brilliantly...

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