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A reading list for those of us who dream of spending long days in the great mountain ranges of the world, and fill in the gaps between adventures with reading about them. The Mountain Library catalogues the books every serious mountain lover should read on mountaineering; mountain travel, culture and fiction, as well as observations on other creativity inspired by high places.
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a desire to measure

from The Mountain Library
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Rumsey Map Collection, scalable version, click on the image, Historical, desire, Design, click, image

Image from Google via Retronaut and the David Rumsey Map Collection. click on the image to view a scalable version. Filed under: Design, Historical

published: 4 months ago | downloaded: 4 months ago | 53 views

melt down

from The Mountain Library
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Art, Martin Browne Fine Art, Milford Galleries, Neil Frazer

Image from Google   More Neil Frazer via Martin Browne Fine Art and Milford Galleries. Filed under: Art

published: 5 months ago | downloaded: 5 months ago | 14 views

mountaineering brilliance

from The Mountain Library
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Cory Richards, mountaineering image, brilliance, Partly Crazy, year via Partly Crazy, Chance of Frostbite, Gasherbaum II, Forge Motion Pictures, Photography Tagged, Simone Moro

Image from Google mountaineering image of the year via Partly Crazy With a Chance of Frostbite, Outside Online. referencing Banff Film Festival Grand prize, Cory Richards and Forge Motion Pictures. Filed under: Photography Tagged: Cory Richards, Denis Urubko, Gasherbaum II, Simone Moro

published: 5 months ago | downloaded: 5 months ago | 26 views

minimal realism

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Image from Google Charley Harper via Fabulous Frames Art. Filed under: Art Tagged: Charley Harper

published: 5 months ago | downloaded: 5 months ago | 16 views

K2 The Savage Mountain – Charles Houston and Robert Bates

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The Mountain Library rating: ★★★★★ Published: 1954 Reading style: medium Images: 16 pages,  bw What the publisher says: The classic true story of disaster and survival on the worlds second-highest mountain. K2, The Savage Mountain is the remarkable first-hand account of the 1953 American expedition, led by Dr. Charles S. Houston, when a combination of storms [...]

published: 6 months ago | downloaded: 6 months ago | 7 views

i see mountains…

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Image from Google Filed under: Design, Science

published: 6 months ago | downloaded: 6 months ago | 6 views

Walking Home – Lynn Schooler

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Image from Google Published:  2010 Reading style: easy Images: no What the publisher says: A journey in the Alaskan Wilderness After the worst winter in the history of Alaska, Lynn Schooler is exhausted and despondent: his marriage is slipping away and his best friend has died. Seeking escape in nature, he embarks upon a journey deep into the [...]

published: 6 months ago | downloaded: 6 months ago | 13 views

Mountains – Alain and Gerad Gree

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children, full of activity, Gerad Gree, childrens Images, Published:  1972 Reading style, Alain ad Gerard Gree, colour illustrations, interest as this book, activity, wild life

Published:  1972 Reading style: childrens Images: 32 pages, colour illustrations What the publisher says: An all colour activity book Mountains bleak and remote as they may seem are as full of activity and interest as this book which Alain ad Gerard Gree have devised to introduce children to their fascination. The wild life [...]

published: 6 months ago | downloaded: 6 months ago | 31 views
related: My book is off to the printers!

Above the Clouds – Anatoli Boukreev

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Anatoli Boukreev, Christmas Day 1997, colour What the publisher, Linda Wylie Foreword, slopes of Annapurna, adventurers of our time, Published:  2001 Reading style, Clouds – Anatoli Boukreev, Clouds, Galen Rowell

Published:  2001 Reading style: easy Images: 32 pages, colour What the publisher says: Collected and Edited by Linda Wylie Foreword by Galen Rowell When Anatoli Boukreev died on the slopes of Annapurna on Christmas Day 1997, the world lost one of the greatest adventurers of our time. In Above the Clouds, both the man and [...]

published: 6 months ago | downloaded: 6 months ago | 40 views

Solo Faces – James Salter

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 1979 Reading style, huge vertical faces, Solo Faces, James Salter, fiction What the publisher, fiction, Rand, medium Images, rockfall, Reading style

Image from Google Published:  1979 Reading style: medium Images: no, fiction What the publisher says: Rand lives free; lean, pure and defiant, the world has little influence on him. His passion is climbing the mountains, the huge vertical faces. There, where storms, snow, or rockfall can kill, he finds his happiness, sometimes climbing with others, sometimes alone. [...]

published: 7 months ago | downloaded: 6 months ago | 28 views
related: Usborne First Travellers: Mountains – Angela Wilkes