Our Kilimanjaro Climb
was named one of
"The 25 Greatest
Adventure Trips
in the World."And Chosen as One of the World's Best Hikes in May 2005
by National Geographic
Adventure MagazineReading List
This is a highly recommended shortlist and we would be happy to pass on a longer reading list for those interested. These links will bounce to Amazon.com with reviews.
Seven Summits
by Dick
Bass, Warner
Books
5 Big Mountains
by David Schaeffer
Everest, Everest Trek, Ama Dablam,
Cho-Oyu, Island Peak
High Himalaya
by Art Wolfe, Peter Potterfield, Norbu Tenzing Norgay, Mountaineers Books
Everest; The Mountaineers Anthology Series
Foreward by Tom Hornbein, Peter Potterfield editor, Mountaineers Books
Everest
by Walt
Unsworth, Mountaineers Books
Classic Hikes of the World
Peter Potterfield, W.W. Norton pub.
Fragile Edge : Loss on Everest
by Maria
Coffey, Harbour
Pub Co.
Coronation Everest
by Jan
Morris, Burford Books
The Violet Shyness of Their Eyes : Notes from Nepal
by Barbara
J. Scot, Calyx Books
Everest : The West Ridge
by Thomas
F. Hornbein, Mountaineers Books
Eric Shipton: Everest & Beyond
by Edmund
Hillary, Peter
M.D. Steele, Mountaineers Books
Everest : The Best Writing and Pictures from Seventy Years of Human Endeavour
by Peter
Gillman (Editor)
Life and Death on Mt. Everest : Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering
by Sherry
B. Ortner, Princeton
Univ Press
Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas : An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters
by Vincanne
Adams, Princeton
Univ Press
Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak : (26,493 Feet)
by Maurice
Herzog, The
Lyons Press
Video Night in Kathmandu : And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East (Vintage Departures)
by Pico
Iyer, Vintage Books
The Snow Leopard (Penguin Nature Classics)
by Peter
Matthiessen, Penguin
USA (paper)
Trekking in Nepal : A Traveler's Guide
by Stephen
Bezruchka, Mountaineers Books
Carstensz Pyramid and Irian Jaya
Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea
by Peter Matthiessen, Edward Hoagland
Indonesian New Guinea: West Papua/Irian Jaya (Periplus Adventure Guides)
Aconcagua - The Stone Sentinel: Perspectives of an Expedition
by Thomas
E. Taplin
Death in the Andes
by Mario
Vargas Llosa Penguin
USA (paper)
In Patagonia
by Bruce
Chatwin, Penguin
USA (paper)
Aconcagua: A Climbing Guide, Second Edition
by R.
J. Secor, Mountaineers Books
Labyrinths; Selected Stories and Other Writings
by Jorge
Luis Borges, W
W Norton & Co
Touching the Void: The Harrowing First Person Account Of One Man's
Miraculous Survival
by Joe
Simpson, HarperCollins
(paper)
Peru and Bolivia : Backpacking and Trekking
by Hilary
Bradt, Bradt
Pub.
Bolivia : A Climbers Guide
by Yossi
Brain, Mountaineers
Books
The Incas: Empire of Blood and Gold (New Horizons)
by Carmen Bernand
The Ancient Kingdoms of Peru
by Nigel
Davies, Penguin
USA (paper)
In the Shadow of Denali : Life and Death on Alaska's Mt. McKinley
by Jonathan
Waterman, The
Lyons Press
Mount McKinley : The Conquest of Denali
by Bradford
Washburn, Harry
N Abrams
The
Ascent of Denali : A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of Mt. McKinley, Highest
Peak in North America
by Hudson
Stuck
The Shadow of Kilimanjaro
by Rick
Ridgeway, Henry
Holt & Co.
Kilimanjaro & Mount Kenya: A Climbing and Trekking Guide
by Cameron
M. Burns, Mountaineers
Books
The Snows of Kilimanjaro: And Other Stories
by Ernest
Hemingway, Scribner
Zombies on Kilimanjaro: A Father/Son Journey Above the Clouds
by Tim Ward
Seven Summits
by Dick
Bass, Warner
Books
Trekking in Russia and Central Asia : A Traveler's Guide
by Frith
Maier, Mountaineers
Books
Empire of the Steppes, A History of Central Asia
by Rene Grousset
Vinson
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
by Caroline
Alexander, Knopf
Let Heroes Speak: Antarctic Explorers, 1772-1922
by Michael
H. Rosove, Naval
Institute Press
Walking on Thin Ice : In Pursuit of the North Pole
by David
Hempleman, Adams Orion
A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic
by E.C.
Pielou, Univ
of Chicago Pr
The Greenlanders
by Jane
Smiley, Ivy
Books
Greenland Expedition: Where Ice Is Born
by Lonnie
Dupre, Creative
Publishing international
Travels in Northern Mongolia
by Don
Croner, Polar
Star Publications
Mongolian Folktales
by Hilary
Roe, Metternich Avery
Pr
Women of Mongolia
by Martha
Avery, Avery
Pr
Mongolia: Vanishing Cultures
by Jan
Reynolds, Harcourt
Brace
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
by Peter
Hopkirk, Kodansha
International
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and
Treasures of Chinese Central Asia
by Peter
Hopkirk, Univ.
of Massachusetts Press
Ecuador
Ecuador by Yossi Brain
Ecuador Climbing and Hiking Guide
by Rob Rachowiecki, Mark Thurber
The Incas: Empire of Blood and Gold (New Horizons)
by Carmen Bernand
Lonely Planet Ecuador & the Galapagos Islands (Country Travel Guide)
Conquest of New Spain (Classics S.)
by B. Diaz Del Castillo
Mexico's Volcanoes
by R. J. Secor
The Ascent of the Matterhorn
by Edward Whymper
Scrambles Amongst the Alps (National Geographic Adventure Classics) by Edward Whymper
White Spider
by Heinrich Harrer, Hugh Merrick
A Fine Balance
by ROHINTON MISTRY
Love and Longing in Bombay
by Vikram Chandra
A River Sutra
by GITA MEHTA
The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
Mount Rainier: A Climbing Guide
by Mike Gauthier, Bruce Barcott, Mountaineers Books
Selected Climbs in the Cascades
by Jim Nelson, Peter Potterfield, Mountaineers Books
Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills
Don Graydon (Ed.), Kurt Hanson (Ed.), Mountaineers Society, Mountaineers Books
Glacier Travel & Crevasse Rescue
Andy Selters, Mountaineers Books
The Illustrated Guide to
Glacier Travel & Crevasse Rescue
Andy Tyson, Mike Clelland, Climbing Magazine