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Ken Duncan
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Feb 13, 2017
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Ft Collins, CO
· Joined Jul 2004
· Points: 5,719
How about a list of your favorite adventure books. Not just climbing but any good story.
Here are some of mine:
The Long Walk - Rawicz
Blind Corners - Tabin
Eiger Dreams - Krakauer
Rowing to Latitude - Fredston
Lost in Mongolia - Angus
Endurance - Lansing
Touching the Void - Simpson
Kon Tiki - Heyerdahl
The Sex Lives of Cannibals - Troost
Undaunted Courage - Ambrose
The Man Who Walked Through Time - Fletcher
Kabloona in a Yellow Kayak - Jason
The Long Way - Moitessier
Minus 148 - Davidson
Deborah and The Mountain of My Fear - both by Roberts
Adrift - Callahan
Alive - Read
Arctic Daughter - Aspen
Going Inside - Kesselheim
Southwest Circle Quest - LeCompte
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Old lady H
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Feb 13, 2017
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Boise, ID
· Joined Aug 2015
· Points: 1,374
"South", by Shackleton. All time favorite.
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Steve Williams
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Feb 13, 2017
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The state of confusion
· Joined Jul 2005
· Points: 235
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Klimbien
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Feb 13, 2017
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St.George Orem Denver Vegas
· Joined Apr 2009
· Points: 455
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dragons
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Feb 14, 2017
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New Paltz, NY
· Joined Aug 2011
· Points: 847
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Rachel Vecchitto
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Feb 14, 2017
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Boulder, CO
· Joined Nov 2011
· Points: 75
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Tradster
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Feb 14, 2017
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Phoenix, AZ
· Joined Nov 2007
· Points: 0
Gorilla Monsoon
Touching the Void
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
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EeT
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Feb 14, 2017
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Jan 2015
· Points: 0
I second lost city of Z. Kiss or kill confessions of a serial climber, awesome book
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mark felber
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Feb 18, 2017
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Wheat Ridge, CO
· Joined Jul 2005
· Points: 41
"Adrift" and" Endurance" are excellent books. OLH is right, anyone who liked "Endurance" should read "South", just to get Shackleton's perspective on the whole adventure.
"No Picnic on Mt. Kenya" is another excellent story.
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Jake Gluck
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Feb 18, 2017
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AZ
· Joined Dec 2014
· Points: 119
Running Man by Charlie Engle
Unbroken by Laura Hilenbrand
Jumping Fire by Murry Taylor
God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre by Richard Grant
The Heart and the Fist by Eric Greitens
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Citsalp
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Feb 18, 2017
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. . . CO
· Joined Feb 2010
· Points: 371
Some of my favorites:
A Walk Across America (70's), Peter Jenkins
Undaunted Courage, Stephen Ambrose (Lewis and Clark)
Centennial, James Michener
Marking The Sparrows Fall, Wallace Stegner
Wilderness Journal of Everett Ruess
Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey
People of the Deer, OR, The Desperate People, Farley Mowat
And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat
To Hell And Back, Audie Murphy
The Wild Muir
Black Elk Speaks
Captured By The Indians, Drimmer
The Climb, Anatoli Boukreev
Touching the Void,
Of Men and Mountains, Douglas
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Ken Duncan
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Feb 18, 2017
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Ft Collins, CO
· Joined Jul 2004
· Points: 5,719
We Die Alone - Howarth. Incredible survival story
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Brandon S
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Feb 18, 2017
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Weehawken, NJ
· Joined Jul 2013
· Points: 1
Is it too obvious or just uncool? I really enjoyed it.
Into Thin Air - krakauer
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stolo
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Feb 18, 2017
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Lake Norman, NC
· Joined Sep 2016
· Points: 214
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