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    • Harness Fear and Live Without Limits
    • By: Ant Middleton
    • Narrated by: Ant Middleton
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7,644 ratings
    • Ant Middleton is no stranger to fear: as a point man in the Special Forces, he confronted fear on a daily basis, never knowing what lay behind the next corner, or the next closed door....

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    • Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
    • By: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 265 ratings
    • At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering, with good reason....

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    • My Life’s Journey to the Top of Everest
    • By: Ben Fogle, Marina Fogle
    • Narrated by: Ben Fogle
    • Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 18-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 888 ratings
    • In April 2018, seasoned adventurer Ben Fogle and Olympic cycling gold medallist Victoria Pendleton, along with mountaineer Kenton Cool, took on their most exhausting challenge yet – climbing Everest for the British Red Cross to highlight the environmental challenges mountains face....

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    • By: Mick Conefrey
    • Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 363 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 True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
    • By: Nick Heil
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 317 ratings
    • In early May 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit....

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    • By: Joe Tasker
    • Narrated by: Stewart Crank
    • Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • On 30 January, 1981 Joe Tasker and Ade Burgess stood at 24,000 feet on the west ridge of Mount Everest. Below them were their companions, some exhausted, some crippled by illness, all virtually incapacitated. Further progress seemed impossible....

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    • Climbing to Extinction
    • By: Brian Hall
    • Narrated by: Sam Stafford
    • Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 22-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Through the seventies and into the mid-eighties, a cohort of young climbers challenged the siege mentality of their seniors on high mountains in the Greater Ranges with fast moving, lightweight expeditions run on a shoestring. Brian Hall was one of them....

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    • By: Peter Boardman
    • Narrated by: Stewart Crank
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 22-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • "It’s a preposterous plan. Still, if you do get up it, it’ll be the hardest thing that’s been done in the Himalayas," said Chris Bonington when Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker presented him with a plan to tackle the unscaled west wall of Changabang - the Shining Mountain - in 1976....

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    • By: Alex Honnold, David Roberts
    • Narrated by: Andrew Eiden, Will Damron
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 397 ratings
    • On June 3rd, 2017, Alex Honnold became the first person to free solo Yosemite's El Capitan - to scale the wall without rope, a partner, or any protective gear. Alone on the Wall recounts the most astonishing achievements of Honnold's extraordinary life and career....

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    • Memoirs of Everest and Beyond
    • By: Jim Whittaker
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 25-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • In May of 1963, Seattle mountaineer Jim Whittaker stepped into world history by becoming the first American to summit Mount Everest. This audiobook is Jim's courageous, no-punches-pulled autobiography and a look at a peripatetic, sometimes difficult life....

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    • By: Steve House, Reinhold Messner - foreword
    • Narrated by: Steve House
    • Series: Patagonia
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Steve House built his reputation on ascents throughout the Alps, Canada, Alaska, the Karakoram, and the Himalaya that have expanded possibilities of style, speed, and difficulty....

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    • By: Sir Chris Bonington
    • Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • Hear Sir Chris Bonington's extraordinary story, read by Gordon Griffin. His memoir, Ascent, charts not only his many triumphs in the climbing world but also the struggles he has faced....

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    • Adventures at the Edge of the Map (Patagonia)
    • By: Rick Ridgeway
    • Narrated by: Rick Ridgeway
    • Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 26-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he’s spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents....

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    • 'Mark Foo's Last Ride,' 'After the Fall,' and Other Essays from the Vault
    • By: Jon Krakauer
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 27-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these ten gripping essays show why Jon Krakauer is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism....

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    • Ventures Among Men and Mountains
    • By: Jon Krakauer
    • Narrated by: Philip Franklin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • This is a stirring, vivid book about one of the most compelling and dangerous of all human pursuits....

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    • A Life Rocked by Mountains
    • By: Barry Blanchard
    • Narrated by: Barry Blanchard
    • Series: Patagonia
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Barry Blanchard chronicles his transformation from a poor Native American/white kid from the wrong side of the tracks to one of the most respected alpinists in the world....

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    • A History of Women Walking
    • By: Kerri Andrews, Kathleen Jamie - Foreword by
    • Narrated by: Lauren Baldwin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps....

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    • A Woman's Place
    • By: Arlene Blum, Maurice Herzog - foreword
    • Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 20-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 154 ratings
    • Annapurna: A Woman's Place has become an acknowledged classic in the annals of women's achievements - a story of challenge and commitment told with passion, humor, and unflinching honesty....

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    • A Life in Mountain Rescue
    • By: John Allen
    • Narrated by: David Monteath
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • The Cairngorm mountains in Scotland are a magnet for climbers and walkers. John Allen spent more than thirty years in the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team saving the lost and injured....

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