Banff Mountain Book Festival Award Winners

1.
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster 4.26 avg rating β€” 550,964 ratings
2.
Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters
Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters 3.93 avg rating β€” 1,884 ratings
3.
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day 4.22 avg rating β€” 10,954 ratings
4.
Into the Wild
Into the Wild 4.02 avg rating β€” 1,165,613 ratings
5.
The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon 4.43 avg rating β€” 13,629 ratings
6.
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places 3.93 avg rating β€” 3,706 ratings
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Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration 3.87 avg rating β€” 4,931 ratings
8.
Freedom Climbers
Freedom Climbers 4.30 avg rating β€” 919 ratings
9.
Beyond the Mountain
Beyond the Mountain 4.21 avg rating β€” 1,150 ratings
10.
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
by: Nick Heil
3.94 avg rating β€” 6,147 ratings
11.
Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon
Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon 4.39 avg rating β€” 2,948 ratings
12.
K2: The Story of the Savage Mountain
K2: The Story of the Savage Mountain 3.99 avg rating β€” 136 ratings
13.
The Tower
The Tower 4.31 avg rating β€” 829 ratings
14.
On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads
On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads
by: Tim Cope
4.15 avg rating β€” 1,969 ratings
15.
The Wild Places
The Wild Places 4.25 avg rating β€” 5,424 ratings
16.
Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes
Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes 4.22 avg rating β€” 148 ratings
17.
Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest
Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest 3.87 avg rating β€” 1,556 ratings
17.
Being Caribou
Being Caribou 4.24 avg rating β€” 736 ratings
19.
Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road
Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road 3.87 avg rating β€” 5,880 ratings
20.
Flakes, Jugs, and Splitters: A Rock Climber's Guide To Geology (How To Climb Series)
Flakes, Jugs, and Splitters: A Rock Climber's Guide To Geology (How To Climb Series) 4.33 avg rating β€” 24 ratings
21.
Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy and Escape from Tibet
Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy and Escape from Tibet 3.82 avg rating β€” 606 ratings
22.
The Last of His Kind: The Life and Adventures of Bradford Washburn, America's Boldest Mountaineer
The Last of His Kind: The Life and Adventures of Bradford Washburn, America's Boldest Mountaineer 4.03 avg rating β€” 374 ratings
23.
To Be Brave
To Be Brave 4.02 avg rating β€” 132 ratings
24.
Icefields
Icefields 3.58 avg rating β€” 1,309 ratings
25.
Everest the First Ascent: How a Champion of Science Helped to Conquer the Mountain
Everest the First Ascent: How a Champion of Science Helped to Conquer the Mountain 4.09 avg rating β€” 343 ratings
26.
The Conquest of Everest: Original Photographs from the Legendary First Ascent
The Conquest of Everest: Original Photographs from the Legendary First Ascent 4.41 avg rating β€” 80 ratings
27.
The Magnetic North: Notes From The Arctic Circle
The Magnetic North: Notes From The Arctic Circle 3.73 avg rating β€” 479 ratings
28.
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout 3.97 avg rating β€” 4,538 ratings
29.
Alaska Ascents: World-Class Mountaineers Tell Thei
Alaska Ascents: World-Class Mountaineers Tell Thei 3.87 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
30.
Mont Blanc: Discovery and Conquest
Mont Blanc: Discovery and Conquest really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
31.
The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek
The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek
by: Sid Marty
3.94 avg rating β€” 312 ratings
32.
Summit : Vittorio Sella : Mountaineer and Photographer : The Years 1879-1909
Summit : Vittorio Sella : Mountaineer and Photographer : The Years 1879-1909 4.79 avg rating β€” 14 ratings
33.
Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan
Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan 4.16 avg rating β€” 4,379 ratings
34.
Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild 4.15 avg rating β€” 718 ratings
35.
The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky 4.02 avg rating β€” 1,880 ratings
36.
The Lost Amazon
The Lost Amazon 4.36 avg rating β€” 174 ratings
37.
Training for the New Alpinism: A Manual for the Climber as Athlete
Training for the New Alpinism: A Manual for the Climber as Athlete 4.53 avg rating β€” 1,323 ratings
38.
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival 4.07 avg rating β€” 18,586 ratings
39.
The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits
The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits 4.47 avg rating β€” 10,174 ratings
40.
Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber
Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber 4.19 avg rating β€” 1,092 ratings
40.
Downhill
Downhill 4.44 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
42.
Dawson's Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners, Vol 2, The Southern Peaks
Dawson's Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners, Vol 2, The Southern Peaks 4.80 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
42.
Stone Crusade: A Historical Guide to Boulderin in America (The American Alpine Book Series)
Stone Crusade: A Historical Guide to Boulderin in America (The American Alpine Book Series) 4.27 avg rating β€” 33 ratings
44.
Himalaya Alpine-Style: The Most Challenging Routes on the Highest Peaks
Himalaya Alpine-Style: The Most Challenging Routes on the Highest Peaks 4.23 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
44.
Annapurna
Annapurna 4.09 avg rating β€” 10,302 ratings
46.
Wild Snow: A Historical Guide to North American Ski Mountaineering : With 54 Selected Classic Routes, 214 Photographs, and 10 Maps (American Alpine Book Series)
Wild Snow: A Historical Guide to North American Ski Mountaineering : With 54 Selected Classic Routes, 214 Photographs, and 10 Maps (American Alpine Book Series) 4.41 avg rating β€” 27 ratings
47.
Dawson's Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners, Vol. 1: The Northern Peaks
Dawson's Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners, Vol. 1: The Northern Peaks 4.89 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
48.
UNEXPECTED: A Retrospective of Patagonia's Outdoor Photography
UNEXPECTED: A Retrospective of Patagonia's Outdoor Photography 4.56 avg rating β€” 34 ratings
48.
Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion
Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion 4.47 avg rating β€” 30 ratings
50.
Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories
Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories
by: Ron Rash
4.03 avg rating β€” 2,785 ratings
50.
In the Bear's House
In the Bear's House 4.29 avg rating β€” 21 ratings
50.
Voyage of A Summer Sun: Canoeing the Columbia River
Voyage of A Summer Sun: Canoeing the Columbia River 4.06 avg rating β€” 168 ratings
53.
Peak District Bouldering.
Peak District Bouldering. 4.82 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
53.
The Wall
The Wall
by: Jeff Long
3.53 avg rating β€” 803 ratings
55.
pamir - forgotten on the roof of the world
pamir - forgotten on the roof of the world 4.50 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
55.
Hiker's Guide to Art of the Canadian Rockies
Hiker's Guide to Art of the Canadian Rockies really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
57.
Desert Towers: Fat Cat Summits and Kitty Litter Rock, a Hundred Years of Adventures on the Sandstone Towers of the Colorado Plateau
Desert Towers: Fat Cat Summits and Kitty Litter Rock, a Hundred Years of Adventures on the Sandstone Towers of the Colorado Plateau 4.44 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
57.
Kayaking the Vermilion Sea: Eight Hundred Miles Down the Baja
Kayaking the Vermilion Sea: Eight Hundred Miles Down the Baja 3.26 avg rating β€” 42 ratings
59.
Southern Exposure: A Solo Sea Kayaking Journey Around New Zealand's South Island
Southern Exposure: A Solo Sea Kayaking Journey Around New Zealand's South Island 3.97 avg rating β€” 59 ratings
60.
Crossing the Heart of Africa: An Odyssey of Love and Adventure
Crossing the Heart of Africa: An Odyssey of Love and Adventure 3.67 avg rating β€” 674 ratings
60.
On Thin Ice: Alpine Climbs in the Americas, Asia and the Himalaya
On Thin Ice: Alpine Climbs in the Americas, Asia and the Himalaya 4.41 avg rating β€” 58 ratings
62.
Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong
Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong 3.65 avg rating β€” 267 ratings
62.
Life and Limb: A True Story of Tragedy and Survival
Life and Limb: A True Story of Tragedy and Survival 4.31 avg rating β€” 589 ratings
62.
Advanced Rock Climbing
Advanced Rock Climbing
by: John Long
3.86 avg rating β€” 51 ratings
65.
Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa
Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa 4.08 avg rating β€” 809 ratings
65.
Tibetan Voices: A Traditional Memoir
Tibetan Voices: A Traditional Memoir 4.25 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
67.
Tibet: Culture on the Edge
Tibet: Culture on the Edge 4.31 avg rating β€” 26 ratings
67.
Ways to the Sky: A Historical Guide to North American Mountaineering
Ways to the Sky: A Historical Guide to North American Mountaineering 3.64 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
67.
I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination
I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination 3.93 avg rating β€” 212 ratings
70.
Squamish Select: Squamish, Cheakamus, Whistler, Pemberton
Squamish Select: Squamish, Cheakamus, Whistler, Pemberton 4.20 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
70.
World Mountaineering : The World's Great Mountains by the World's Great Mountaineers
World Mountaineering : The World's Great Mountains by the World's Great Mountaineers 3.67 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
72.
Stone & Silence
Stone & Silence it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
73.
Fred Beckey's 100 Favorite North American Climbs
Fred Beckey's 100 Favorite North American Climbs 4.71 avg rating β€” 45 ratings
73.
Clouded Leopard
Clouded Leopard 4.21 avg rating β€” 457 ratings
75.
Going Higher: Oxygen, Man and Mountains
Going Higher: Oxygen, Man and Mountains 4.22 avg rating β€” 32 ratings
76.
Chomolungma Sings the Blues
Chomolungma Sings the Blues 4.24 avg rating β€” 34 ratings
77.
The Totem Pole : And a Whole New Adventure
The Totem Pole : And a Whole New Adventure 4.08 avg rating β€” 111 ratings
78.
Switchbacks: True Stories from the Canadian Rockies
Switchbacks: True Stories from the Canadian Rockies
by: Sid Marty
3.94 avg rating β€” 175 ratings
79.
Extreme Alpinism: Climbing Light, Fast, and High
Extreme Alpinism: Climbing Light, Fast, and High 4.32 avg rating β€” 311 ratings
80.
Revelations
Revelations 4.39 avg rating β€” 418 ratings
80.
Darkness and the Azure: Tales About the Mountains, Mountain People and Mountaineers
Darkness and the Azure: Tales About the Mountains, Mountain People and Mountaineers liked it 3.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
82.
Fat Tire: A Celebration of the Mountain Bike
Fat Tire: A Celebration of the Mountain Bike liked it 3.00 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
83.
Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies
Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies
by: Alan Kane
4.83 avg rating β€” 65 ratings
84.
Bradford Washburn: Mountain Photography
Bradford Washburn: Mountain Photography 4.25 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
85.
Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood
Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood 3.71 avg rating β€” 45 ratings
86.
Hiker's Guide to the Rocky Mountain Art of Lawren Harris
Hiker's Guide to the Rocky Mountain Art of Lawren Harris 4.33 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
87.
Patagonia: Notes from the Field
Patagonia: Notes from the Field 4.08 avg rating β€” 26 ratings
88.
Pushing the Limits: The Story of Canadian Mountaineering
Pushing the Limits: The Story of Canadian Mountaineering 4.70 avg rating β€” 20 ratings
89.
Hazard's Way
Hazard's Way 3.50 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
90.
Fifty Favorite Climbs in North America: The Ultimate North American Tick List
Fifty Favorite Climbs in North America: The Ultimate North American Tick List 4.21 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
91.
A Man's Life: Dispatches from Dangerous Places
A Man's Life: Dispatches from Dangerous Places 4.27 avg rating β€” 169 ratings
91.
Arctic Crossing: One Man's 2,000-Mile Odyssey Among the Inuit
Arctic Crossing: One Man's 2,000-Mile Odyssey Among the Inuit 3.63 avg rating β€” 82 ratings
93.
Fatal Tide: When The Race Of A Lifetime Goes Wrong
Fatal Tide: When The Race Of A Lifetime Goes Wrong 4.25 avg rating β€” 24 ratings
93.
The High Himalaya
The High Himalaya
by: Art Wolfe
4.38 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
95.
Higher Than the Eagle Soars: A Path to Everest
Higher Than the Eagle Soars: A Path to Everest 3.95 avg rating β€” 60 ratings
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Raven's End
Raven's End
by: Ben Gadd
4.10 avg rating β€” 305 ratings
97.
Yosemite in the Sixties
Yosemite in the Sixties 4.22 avg rating β€” 27 ratings
97.
The Evidence of Things Not Seen : A Mountaineer's Tale
The Evidence of Things Not Seen : A Mountaineer's Tale 4.23 avg rating β€” 26 ratings
99.
Deep Water: Rockfax Guidebook to Deep Water Soloing (Rockfax Climbing Guide Series) by Robertson, Mike (2007) Paperback
Deep Water: Rockfax Guidebook to Deep Water Soloing (Rockfax Climbing Guide Series) by Robertson, Mike (2007) Paperback 4.60 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer
Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer 4.26 avg rating β€” 1,015 ratings
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