The book begins on the fateful day — June 23 — with the two climbing teams — ”bits of humanity enveloped in wilderness and quiet” — making their way up two ridges of the same mountain.

The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery.” ...

Granted, reading this book was not as tension-inducing as the mountain-climbing books I have read. I think “Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer is my favorite “scare myself to death” book, ...

His book, out this week, goes far beyond his intrepid mountaineering. It explores his struggles with mental health that eventually led him to quit his attempt to climb the seventh highest mountain ...

Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, freeriding, ski mountaineering, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and ice climbing on all the mountains of the world. It ...

Attempting to pack the entire history of a single sport, especially one as diverse as climbing, into one 225-page book is a gargantuan task. But in Born to Climb: Rock Climbing Pioneers to Olympic ...