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| Brenva (1944) |
| T Graham Brown |
| Eccentric academician and physiologist Graham Brown writes a most thoroughly researched and strangely engrossing biography of Mont Blanc's famous face. |
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| Extreme Alpine Rock (1973) |
| Walter Pause and Jurgen Winkler |
| Hard-core Alpine routes get the 70s glam coffee-table treatment. |
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| Extreme Alpinism (1999) |
| Mark Twight & James Martin |
| Mark 'House of Pain' Twight obsesses about fine-tuning his body and mind in preparation for Nietschean Will-to-Power challenges in the alpine arena. |
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| Gervasutti's Climbs (1947) |
| Giusto Gervasutti |
| Leading inter-war Italian climber's lively accounts of his difficult routes in the western Alps and Dolomites. Eventually got the chop in trying a route on the Tacul. |
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| In Monte Viso's Horizon (1991) |
| Will McLewen |
| First Brit to bag all the Alpine 4000m peaks takes 22 years to do them - then shares the secrets of the Full Monte in an unusual book fusing biographical and instructional elements. |
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| Killing Dragons (2000) |
| Fergus Fleming |
| Eminently readable, often hilarious history of the origins of Alpine climbing to the Second World War. |
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| My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus (1895) |
| A.F. Mummery |
| Eminently readable and humorous account of early Alpinism, by myopic left-field British pioneer. Mummery gives a flavour of the heroic era of mountaineering's beginnings. |
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| Scrambles amongst the Alps (1871) |
| Edward Whymper |
| Whymper, the star of the 'Golden Age' of Alpinism (and expert woodcut engraver) relates (and illustrates) his memoirs of his campaign years of 1860-69, producing one of the first best-selling mountain-climbing books. |
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| Starlight and Storm (1956) |
| Gaston Rebuffat |
| France's most poetic alpinist climbs six great North Faces. He tells you how it feels. Or at least, tries to. |
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| The High Mountains of the Alps (1994) |
| Helmut Dumler & Willi Burkhardt |
| Big-Screen Technicolor production featuring all the Alpine 4000ers - and ways up (and down) them. Lavish. |
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| The Mont Blanc Massif-The 100 finest routes (1974) |
| Gaston Rebuffat |
| Lyrically-inclined alpinist Rebuffat writes the definitive tick-list to the most climbed patch of jagged ground on Earth. Don't leave home without it! |
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| The Playground of Europe (1871) |
| Lesley Stephen |
| Stephen wittily describes his adventures clambering atop the roof of Europe during the Golden Age of Alpine Climbing. |
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| The White Spider (1958) |
| Heinrich Harrer |
| Ex-Nazi and member of the first successful Eigerwand team Harrer writes the biography of the most infamous Nordwand in climbing history. He has vays of making you read. |
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