📚 Mountaineering

Climbing as a discipline of its own: technique, the great ascents, and the psychology of choosing to go up the hard side of a mountain.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject mountaineering in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Into Thin Air	Jon Krakauer	1996	54
	Between a Rock and a Hard Place	Aron Ralston	2004	25
	Touching the void	Joe Simpson	1988	20
	Eiger Dreams	Jon Krakauer	1990	18
	Left for Dead	Beck Weathers	1672	15
	Weisse Spinne	Heinrich Harrer	1959	15
	Lost on Everest	Peter Firstbrook	1999	12
	Mountains of the mind	Robert Macfarlane	2003	12
	High Exposure	David Breashears	1999	10
	The climb	Anatoli Boukreev	1997	9
	Facing Up	Bear Grylls	2000	9
	First ladies	Amy Pastan	2001	9
	Where Mountains Casts Its Shadow	Maria Coffey	2003	8
	Together on top of the world	Phil Ershler	2007	8
	No way down	Graham Bowley	2010	8
	In high places	Dougal Haston	1972	7
	Freaky Peaks (Horrible Geography)	Anita Ganeri	2001	7
	Nothing venture, nothing win	Sir Edmund Hillary	1975	6
	Freiheit, aufzubrechen, wohin ich will	Reinhold Messner	1991	6
	Dead lucky	Lincoln Hall	1997	6
	The climber's handbook	Garth Hattingh	1998	6
	Forever on the Mountain	James M. Tabor	2007	6
	Mountain madness	Robert Birkby	2008	6
	Blind descent	Brian Dickinson	2014	6
	Mountaineering	Andrea Gabbard	1998	4
	Above the clouds	Anatoli Boukreev	2001	4
	Dead Mountain	Donnie Eichar	2013	4
	No Summit out of Sight	Jordan Romero	2014	4
	To the top!	Sydelle Kramer	1993	3
	No Shortcuts to the Top	Ed Viesturs	2006	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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