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The Chomolungma Diaries: What a commercial Everest expedition is really like    by Mark Horrell
Price: $0.99 USD. 47430 words. Published on November 23, 2012. .

Are you tired of reading mountaineering disaster stories which focus on all that's negative about climbing Everest? This book aims to dispel the popular myths surrounding Everest by telling the true story of an ordinary climber on an ordinary commercial expedition to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain.
Climbing Colorado's Fourteeners    by David Barth
Price: $2.99 USD. 15790 words. Published on December 5, 2012. .

This is a collection of stories documenting ascents of 14,000 foot Mountains in Colorado during the 1960s and 1970s.
In the Footsteps of Whymper: Climbing Ecuador's volcanoes    by Mark Horrell
Price: $0.99 USD. 17460 words. Published on December 9, 2012. .

This is the story of Mark Horrell's journey in the highlands of Ecuador following in the footsteps of the Victorian mountaineer Edward Whymper, who is best-known for making the very first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. In 1879 he made first ascents of nearly all of Ecuador's highest mountains, and Mark was determined to find out more by climbing some of them himself.
The Mountain    by Lex J. Grootelaar
Price: Free! 940 words. Published on December 17, 2012. .

A man faces his greatest challenge, will the mountains storm be the end of him? Or will he survive and have the grandest of his stories to tell.
After Everest: The Experiences of a Mountaineer and Medical Missionary    by T. Howard Somervell
Price: $1.25 USD. 100060 words. Published by JonesBooks on January 14, 2013. .

The memoir of the remarkable T. Howard Somervell, best known for his role in the British expeditions to climb Mount Everest in the 1920s, including the legendary second attempt during which George Mallory and Sandy Irvine vanished on their way to the peak. Somervell also recounts his early climbing days in Europe, the horrors of the front during WWI, and his medical work among the poor of India.
The Night Climbers of Cambridge    by Whipplesnaith
Price: $5.99 USD. 53050 words. Published by oleanderman on January 19, 2013. .

The 1937 climbing black book - a cult classic bible for climbers, builderers, free-runners and parkouristes.
The Wells Creek Route and Other Stories    by Jeffrey Penn May
Price: $2.99 USD. 24200 words. Published on February 18, 2013. .

The Wells Creek Route explores mountains and randomness. In Pluggin’ Leaks, a deckhand deflects his future. In Desolation Peaks, he seeks solace in mountains. In The Deaf Woman’s TV, he dates while empathizing with an old woman. Hazards of Bat Guano is about fly-fishing, bats, and streams. Sunfish is about you and fish. Cynthia's Currents looks at decades flown by and Cynthia who refused to go.
Survival Fitness    by Sam Fury
Price: $6.97 USD. 16320 words. Published by Survive Travel  on May 3, 2013. .

Survival Fitness shows how to train yourself, from little or no knowledge, in 6 physical activities that are most useful in terms of escape/survival and increasing fitness.