It’s official: that TV show the other night gave me Armchair Everest Fever again. I just returned from the library with an armload of books:

  • Climbing Everest: Tales of Triumph and Tragedy on the World’s Highest Mountain by Audrey Salkeld
  • Within Reach: My Everest Story by Mark Pfetzer
  • Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine by Jochen Hemmleb, Larry A. Johnson, and Eric R. Simonson
  • Lost on Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine by Peter Firstbrook
  • Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer by Anatoli Boukreev
  • Last Climb: The Legendary Everest Expeditions of George Mallory by David Breashears and Audrey Salkeld
  • The Other Side of Everest: Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm by Matt Dickinson

Add to those books the ones I already own:

  • Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by John Krakauer
  • Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest by Beck Weathers
  • The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev

Oh yeah. I am all set for some major Everest geekery. I will also be referring to EverestHistory.com, EverestNews.com, NOVA: Everest, National Geographic: Everest, MountEverest.net, and all the Google search results I can handle.