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Can anyone recommend [i]Shining mountain[/i] by Boardman / Tasker? Been meaning to get it for a while as it sounds like a landmark ascent, but no idea what it would be like as a read.
Can't believe no-one's mentioned Tom Patey: One Man's Mountains - The good bits are truly excellent and more than outweigh the slightly dodgier bits!
ElShalimo - got to disagree with you there. I really enjoy Joe Simpson's writing. He's won several writing awards too, so I'm not the only one!
The Mountains of Snowdonia. H.R.C.Carr & G.A.Lister first publsished 1925 2nd print 1948. If you like North Wales, this is the good shit.. fascinating book, not adventury adrenaliny stuff, just a solid gold book encompassing everything about early mountain exploration in North Wales. and geology and etymology of the places etc. If you can find it. It quotes some of the earliest ever written stuff re. climbing about this locality. It's a proper fascinating book... I do reccommend 😀
You have to get it second hand off of Amazon now (for pennies) , but Chris Bonington did a coffee table book called 'Quest for Adventure'.
"Into Thin Air" by John KrakaurIf you're going to read this, then also read "The Climb" by Anatoli Boukreev - the other side of the story
+1 Still not sure who's version i believe though, with so much altitude confusion!