Climbing Memoir

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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: 13-04-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 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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    • By: Jon Krakauer
    • Narrated by: Philip Franklin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 651 ratings
    • One of the inspirations for the major motion picture Everest, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley....

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    • By: Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
    • Narrated by: Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
    • Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Peruvian climber Silvia Vasquez-Lavado spent a lifetime running away from trauma. As a child she suffered sexual abuse, and as an adult, she struggled with both her sexuality and addiction. In spite of her private battles, Silvia climbed many of the world's greatest peaks....

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    • A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within
    • By: Cory Richards
    • Narrated by: Cory Richards
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The Color of Everything is a thrilling tale of risk and adventure, written by a man who has done it all: he’s stood at the top of the world, climbed imposing mountain faces alone in the dark and become the only American to summit an 8,000-meter peak in winter....

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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: 26-10-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 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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    • A Memoir
    • By: Brianna Madia
    • Narrated by: Brianna Madia
    • Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In her debut memoir, Nowhere for Very Long, Brianna Madia reflected on her life as a nomad, free to roam some of the most beautiful land in America....

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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: 16-05-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 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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    • The Extraordinary Life of the Beekeeper Who Climbed Everest
    • By: Michael Gill
    • Narrated by: Bruce Hopkins
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Edmund Hillary - A Biography is the story of the New Zealand beekeeper who climbed Mount Everest. A man who, against expedition orders, drove his tractor to the South Pole....

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    • The man and the mindset that summitted K2 in winter
    • By: Nimsdai Purja
    • Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 161 ratings
    • An SBS Gurkha soldier's account of how his tough Nepali upbringing and the lessons learned in his army life enabled his record-breaking conquest of all 14 of the world's 8,000m peaks in under seven months....

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    • By: Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-2000
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • The Climb is a true, gripping, and thought-provoking account of the worst disaster in the history of Mt. Everest: On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by experienced leaders...

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    • Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
    • By: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-2006
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time....

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    • Himalayan Journeys in Search of the Sacred and the Sublime
    • By: Stephen Alter
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-2015
    • Language: English
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    • Stephen Alter was raised by American missionary parents in the hill station of Mussoorie, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where he and his wife Ameeta, now live....

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    • Surviving the Mountain's Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again
    • By: Jim Davidson
    • Narrated by: Jim Davidson, Tim Campbell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 20-04-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet....

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    • By: Joe Tasker
    • Narrated by: Stewart Crank
    • Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • On 30 January, 1981 Joe Tasker and Ade Burgess stood at 24,000 feet on the west ridge of Mount Everest. Below them were their companions, some exhausted, some crippled by illness, all virtually incapacitated. Further progress seemed impossible....

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    • A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk and Going Beyond Limits to Climb the Dawn Wall
    • By: Tommy Caldwell
    • Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 19-04-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • Penguin Audio presents The Push by Tommy Caldwell, read by Johnathan McClain. A dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, the first person to free climb the Dawn Wall of Yosemite's El Capitan....

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    • My Life’s Journey to the Top of Everest
    • By: Ben Fogle, Marina Fogle
    • Narrated by: Ben Fogle
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 18-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • In April 2018, seasoned adventurer Ben Fogle and Olympic cycling gold medallist Victoria Pendleton, along with mountaineer Kenton Cool, took on their most exhausting challenge yet – climbing Everest for the British Red Cross to highlight the environmental challenges mountains face....

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    • By: Steve House, Reinhold Messner - foreword
    • Narrated by: Steve House
    • Series: Patagonia
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 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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    • By: Alex Honnold, David Roberts
    • Narrated by: Andrew Eiden, Will Damron
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • On June 3rd, 2017, Alex Honnold became the first person to free solo Yosemite's El Capitan - to scale the wall without rope, a partner, or any protective gear. Alone on the Wall recounts the most astonishing achievements of Honnold's extraordinary life and career....

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    • How I Carved My Own Path to the Top of the World
    • By: Kilian Jornet
    • Narrated by: Steven Brand
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The most accomplished mountain runner of all time contemplates his record-breaking climb of Mount Everest in this profound and free-flowing memoir - an intellectual and spiritual journey that moves from the earth’s highest peak to the soul’s deepest reaches....

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