MOUNTAINEERING • Getting started • Is mountaineering for me? • Skills & techniques • Fitness • Food & nutrition • Equipment overview • Gear check list • Joining an expedition • The effects of altitude • Navigation • Safety & first aid • Further reading

MOUNTAINEERING
Further reading

If you are getting serious about taking up mountaineering then it would be advisable to start doing some reading on the subject. Some of the best ways to familiarise yourself with this activity is to read books that have been written by other climbers about their own adventures. Some suggestions are:

• Into Thin Air
  by Jon Krakauer
  
  
• Fear no Boundary
  by Sue Fear
  
  
• Sheer Will
  by Mike Groom
  
  
• Into The Wild
  by Jon Krakauer
  
  
• Facing up
  by Bear Grylls
  
  
• Everest - Mountain Without Mercy
  by Broughton Coburn
  
  
• Everest - Summit of Achievement
  by Stephen Venables