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Ok, just about to finish Learning to Breathe (Andy Cave) and have recently really enjoyed Psychovertical (Andy Kirkpatrick) & Beyond the Mountain (Steve House).

Looking for another mountaineering book (scary photo section preferred). What would the discerning members of UKC recommend?

It is apt for me to recommend: The Mountains of my Life by Walter Bonatti. Not really a photo book though.

In reply to Milesy:
Just re-read The Beckoning Silence (Joe Simpson) which is very enjoyable. Quite funny too in places by his standards, esp the canadian ice climbing chapter.
Scary picture section as well.

In reply to Milesy:

I'd second that. Everyone should read that book.

In reply to Flinticus: I've just read The Burgess Book Of Lies, and thought it was brilliant! One of the most enjoyable I can remember. I'm about to start Aat Vervoorn's Mountain Solitudes (can't wait) when I've finished Victor Saunders' No Place To Fall (good, but a bit short).

In reply to Flinticus:
Troll Wall (Tony Howard). Unputdownable - should have been a shoo-in for the Boardman Tasker but unaccountably hasn't made the short list.

In reply to Toreador:
A short walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby. Hilarious

A bunch more recommendations here: http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?t=467071&v=1#x6540592, I wish there was some way to make a thread a sticky!

Great. Looks like I won't be running short of options for a while yet.

I see no-one has actually recommended Beyond the Mountain so I will. Its a great book and Steve House climbs alpine style so his accounts make for gripping reading.

In reply to Flinticus:

My Vertical World by Jerzy Kukuczka
Learning to Breath by Andy Cave
Starlight & Storm by Gaston Rebuffat
Touching my father Soul by Jamling Tenzing Norgay
The White Spider by Heinrich Harrer
On Thin Ice by Mick Fowler
The Boardman Tasker Omnibus
Psychovertical by Andy Kirkpatrick
Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage by Herman Buhl

So many great books out there.

In reply to TeshiLapcha:

Also looking at what you have read, another good one

Kiss or Kill by Mark Twight

And if you are into Mental climbers - Tomaz Humar by Bernadette McDonald

In reply to TeshiLapcha:
I thought that Tomaz Humar was one of the worst books about climbing I've ever read - a heavily slanted view of Tomaz's life. Almost as poorly written as "Killing Dragons".

Some I'd recommend - also Kiss or Kill, but it's more of a collection of articles than a "book"
One of my favorites is Spy on the Roof of the world - by a welsh climber about sneaking into Tibet in the early 60's and getting caught by the chinese.
Heinrich Harrer - The white spider

In reply to Flinticus:

Well since the passing of one Walter Bonatti http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/ After reading the news I'm definately inspired to read more about him and his ascents. One in aprticular: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mountains-My-Life-Modern-Library/dp/037575640X

In reply to Siward:

Seconded, a wonder they ever got anywhere!

In reply to Flinticus:

"The Last Blue Mountain" by Ralph Barker. The stuff of nightmares when the team take a fall, loose ice axes and crampons and are faced with the almost impossible task of getting back alive. Harrowing.

In reply to Flinticus:
I've just started reading a book I picked up in a second hand shop for a few quid. It's "The great climbing adventure" by John Barry (no not THAT one). I'm only one chapter in but it's a great read. Never heard anyone mention it on UKC

Well, went for Rock Athlete: seems to fllow on nicely from Learning to Breathe.

However, all your other recommendations have not been in vain: they will serve as my reading menu into the distant future.

In reply to Flinticus: I'd add 3 titles from Greg Child that I've really enjoyed reading and re-reading over the years:-

1. 'Thin Air'
2. 'Mixed Emotions'
3. 'Postcards from the Ledge'

Was really lucky this year, had the chance to meet Greg and discuss writing at the NZ Mtn Film Festival in Wanaka. He delivered the main lecture and added details to accounts of climbs in 'Thin Air' and 'Mixed Emotions'...he also introduced Lydia Bradey's lecture, a very good speaker in her own right.