For my book review I chose to read That Untravelled World by Eric Shipton. Although it is an autobiography written by Shipton, the book starts out with a lengthy seven page foreword written by Katie Ives, providing the reader with a descriptive background of Shipton and his past. The foreword is a great beginning that…

Book Review of “No Way Down” Bryant Lymburn Historically climbing has segregated certain peaks towards certain countries who possessed the drive and means to climb them. Mount Everest was segregated to British control, Annapurna to the French, Masherbrum to the Germans, and K2 to the Italians and Americans. Each of these 8000 meter peaks possess…

The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev and coauthored by Weston DeWalt seeks to present the Mount Everest disaster of 1996 through a different lens.  With the help of the authorship Anatoli Boukreev and other members of Fischer’s Mountain Madness, the title of his company, seek to show their perspective of what occurred on the fateful day…

The Mountains of My Life, written by Walter Bonatti is a 427 page memoir detailing his many ascents and the struggles to go with them, as well as the victories, and his emotions throughout the process of each. His climbing career was filled with many climbs including three North Face climbs on the Grandes Jorasses,…

The engaging tale of Eric Shipton exploration of the Karakoram and the Angil range back in 1938, is a true adventure tale. The methods of this expedition are unique in the fact that it is very small and not demanding of several amenities that are so perpetuated by other expeditions of this kind. The climbers…

The subtitle of Eiger Dreams is far more descriptive of the book than the main title is: Ventures Among Men and Mountains. That is really what Jon Krakauer’s book is about. The book Eiger Dreams is really a collection of different articles written by Jon Krakauer that he compiled together, covering the broad subject of mountaineering, and…

Between a Rock and a Hard Place is a true story that few people have not heard. If they do not know the book or protagonist by name, they more than likely know the basics of the tale. Aron Ralston is an extreme outdoorsman, a seasoned and experienced mountaineer. He has climbed most of the highest peaks of…

            The history of the Irish mountaineering tradition is disclosed in absolute detail by Paddy O’Leary in The Way That We Climbed: A History of Irish Hillwalking, Climbing, and Mountaineering. O’Leary lends authority to this history as he himself was one of the pillars of the Irish climbing community from the late nineteen-fifties through the…

I do not think I would recommend Aconcagua and Tierra Del Fuego by Sir Martin Conway. My goal of this book review was too look at high altitude mountaineering in a different range from what we have been covering in class and to see if any of the major themes applied in South America also.…