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1.		Facing Up: A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Everest from Pan Books Price: £4.99 Customer Review: If you like Bear then you'll like this book. He's obviously made of strong stuff and he has a story to tell but unfortunately he isn't really a writer and doesn't capture the real essence of high altitude mountaineering and its inherent risks as succinctly as other writers within the genre. The... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		Psychovertical from Hutchinson Price: £11.39 Customer Review: Psychovertical Just a quick review here, the others seem to have pretty much covered it. Very unputdownable. Great descriptions made me feel as though I was there myself. BUY IT!!	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes from Yale University Press Price: £18.99	Click here for more information

4.		Into Thin Air: Personal Account of the Everest Disaster from Pan Books Price: £5.19 Customer Review: This has to be the best book I have read in a long time. I literally could not put it down ! It was gripping. The mountineering side of it is explained in laymans terms and overall it is extremely well written. Probably the kind of book I will even read twice over.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		Rock Climbing: Essential Skills & Techniques from Cordee Price: £16.14 Customer Review: If ever there was a book that could be classed as the industry standard climbing book, then this is it. The official handbook of the mountaineering instructor and single pitch award schemes this book has pretty much everything you'd need to get started on climbing, and more besides. It covers such... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		Mountains of the Mind from Granta Books Price: £6.29 Customer Review: ...is not a passion halved in this case. I, like MacFarlane, am a bloke slightly obsessed with mountains and he took me back to some good memories of climbs that I will probably never attempt again. It was with open-eyed exhilaration that I read this book. Splendid reading, even for those who like... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		Learning to Breathe from Arrow Books Ltd Price: £6.99 Customer Review: My mother-in-law recommended this book and I was a bit sceptical. However it is absolutely brilliant! I laughed & cried. A really honest account. I couldn't put the book down. I hope one day I'm lucky enough to meet the guy because he seems like a top chap. I climb a little bit myself although... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		The Beckoning Silence from Vintage Price: £5.99 Customer Review: In the world of mountaineering writing Joe Simpson is without peer. There seem to be two reasons for this. First, Simpson is one of those people to whom things just keep happening. Famously, in "Touching the Void", he shatters a leg in a fall, is left to die at high altitude by his climbing partner... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		Thin White Line from Hutchinson Price: £13.29 Customer Review: I thoroughly enjoyed "Learning To Breath" as it dealt with the people involved in climbing and the author's pre-climbing history. This volume rather dwells on the tragic events at the end of the author's Changabang ascent and to be frank, drifts rather aimlessly to a conclusion. The conclusion,... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks from Broadway Books Customer Review: This book is really different from the usual climbing fare. Ed Viesturs is a climber who was able to turn back at critical points, an attribute that few share. I'd throughly recommend this as an alternative to the derring do of most climbing books. He seems to be a very determinded as well as... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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