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    • The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters
    • By: James M. Tabor
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In 1967, seven young men, members of a twelve-man expedition led by twenty-four-year-old Joe Wilcox, were stranded at 20,000 feet on Alaska's Mount McKinley in a vicious Arctic storm. Ten days passed while the storm raged, yet no rescue was mounted....

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    • Adventures in Reaching the Summit
    • By: Robert Macfarlane
    • Narrated by: James A. Gillies
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • Combining accounts of legendary mountain ascents with vivid descriptions of his own forays into wild, high landscapes, Robert Macfarlane reveals how the mystery of the world's highest places has come to grip the Western imagination....

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    • Conflict, Change, and the Race for 5.14
    • By: Jeff Smoot
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • Hangdog Days vividly chronicles the era when rock climbing exploded in popularity, attracting a new generation of talented climbers eager to reach new heights via harder routes and faster ascents....

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    • By: Mick Conefrey
    • Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • At 28,251 feet, K2 might be almost 800 feet shorter than Everest, but it’s a far harder climb. It will kill you on the way up and the way down....

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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: 05-16-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 811 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 Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak
    • By: Andy Hall
    • Narrated by: Jim Manchester
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,030 ratings
    • Denali's Howl is the white-knuckle account of one of the most deadly climbing disasters of all time....

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    • 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration
    • By: Edward J. Larson
    • Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, an entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time, when three expeditions simultaneously raced to the top, bottom, and heights of the world....

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    • How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
    • By: Christopher McDougall
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
    • Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,628 ratings
    • The best-selling author of Born to Run now travels to the Mediterranean, where he discovers that the secrets of ancient Greek heroes are still alive and well on the island of Crete, and ready to be unleashed in the muscles and minds of casual athletes and aspiring heroes everywhere....

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    • Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest
    • By: Mark Synnott
    • Narrated by: Steve Campbell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 474 ratings
    • A hundred-year mystery lured veteran climber Mark Synnott into an unlikely expedition up Mount Everest during the spring 2019 season that came to be known as “the Year Everest Broke”. What he found was a gripping human story of impassioned characters from around the globe....

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    • The Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams
    • By: Katie Ives
    • Narrated by: Petrea Burchard
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Using an infamous deception about a fake mountain range in British Columbia as her jumping-off point, Katie Ives, the well-known editor of Alpinist, explores the lure of blank spaces on the map and the value of the imagination....

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    • The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth
    • By: James Tabor
    • Narrated by: Don Leslie
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 382 ratings
    • The deepest cave on earth was a prize that had remained unclaimed for centuries, long after every other ultimate discovery had been made....

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    • Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas
    • By: Scott Ellsworth
    • Narrated by: Scott Ellsworth
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • A saga of survival, technological innovation, and breathtaking human physical achievement - all set against the backdrop of a world headed toward war - that became one of the most compelling international dramas of the 20th century....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Karen Outen
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • When Nate suggests that they attempt to be the first Black American men to summit Mount Everest, his younger brother Dixon can’t refuse. The two are determined to prove something—to themselves and to each other.

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    • Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering
    • By: Daniel Light
    • Narrated by: Richard Trinder
    • Length: 13 hrs
    • Release date: 11-19-24
    • Language: English
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    • From the smoking volcanoes of South America to the great snowy ranges of the Himalaya, The White Ladder follows a cast of extraordinary characters—conquistadors and captains, scientists and surveyors, alpinists and adventurers—up the slopes of the world's highest peaks.

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    • The Conquest of the Alps
    • By: Fergus Fleming
    • Narrated by: Richard Halverson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In a riveting narrative of daredevils and eccentrics, Fergus Fleming gives us the breathtaking story of some of history's greatest explorers as they conquer the soaring peaks of the Alps....

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    • The Extraordinary Story of Love, Civil Rights, and Labor Activism
    • By: Norman Hill, Velma Murphy Hill
    • Narrated by: Arnell Powell, Kim Staunton
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-24
    • Language: English
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    • Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain is the remarkable story of a couple who came together during the Civil Rights Movement and made fighting for equality and civil and workers’ rights their purpose for more than sixty years....

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    • Mountain Without Mercy
    • By: Broughton Coburn
    • Narrated by: Mark Peckham
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • A stunningly illustrated portrait of life and death in a hostile, high-altitude environment where no human can survive for long....

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    • A History of a Fascination
    • By: Robert Macfarlane
    • Narrated by: Simon Bubb
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer...

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    • By: Craig Storti
    • Narrated by: John Pirkis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The height of Mount Everest was first measured in 1850, but the closest any Westerner got to Everest during the next 71 years, until 1921, was 40 miles. The Hunt for Mount Everest tells the story of the 71-year quest to find the world's highest mountain....

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