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I like reading adventurous autobiographies and I would like some suggestions.
Usually climbing, mountaineering, cycling books but open to any sport / adventure. Ta


 
Posted : 20/08/2017 8:35 pm
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Mad Bad and Dangerous to Know, Ranulph Fiennes...


 
Posted : 20/08/2017 8:53 pm
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Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage, Hermann Buhl


 
Posted : 20/08/2017 9:01 pm
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Posted : 20/08/2017 9:01 pm
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Assume you have already read touching the void?
Steve House's book is good


 
Posted : 20/08/2017 9:03 pm
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Nick Crane's 'Journey to the centre of the earth', or 'Clear waters rising'.
Both quite different, both excellent.


 
Posted : 20/08/2017 9:09 pm
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Anything by Tilman, Shipton or early Bonnington. Or Dave Roberts, Bradford Washburn or Fawcett.( not Ron, the Victorian explorer)


 
Posted : 21/08/2017 6:49 am
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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
by William Finnegan


 
Posted : 21/08/2017 7:09 am
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Steve Backshall - Mountain
Quite a surprising read, there's a lot more to him than being a kids wildlife presenter.
Seen him speak a couple of times - nice, genuine bloke.


 
Posted : 21/08/2017 8:41 am
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Currently reading this. It's a bit less 'action' than other mountaineering books, but definitely worth a read/enjoyable.

[url= https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/cka/Cairngorm-John-Allen/1905207573 ]https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/cka/Cairngorm-John-Allen/1905207573[/url]


 
Posted : 21/08/2017 9:04 am
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Not quite an autobiography, but Shackleton 'South' is a must read.


 
Posted : 21/08/2017 9:07 am
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You could try my friend Nathans book, he's done a bit of adventuring.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nathan-Faavae-Adventurer-At-Heart-ebook/dp/B017TQE7DI


 
Posted : 21/08/2017 11:12 am
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Life on the Edge by Eric Jones

Absolutely brilliant chap and well worth chatting to him in his cafe in Porthmadog if you are ever up that way.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Edge-Eric-Jones/dp/1845275497/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1503314760&sr=8-2&keywords=eric+jones


 
Posted : 21/08/2017 11:29 am
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Francis Chichester - Lonely Sea and the Sky - one of the great adventure autobiographies.


 
Posted : 21/08/2017 11:52 am
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Andy Cave, Learning to Breathe.


 
Posted : 21/08/2017 12:01 pm
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Anything by Jill Homer.


 
Posted : 21/08/2017 12:03 pm
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Not adventure or autobiography...but I recently read Gino Bartali's biography...wow Giro and Tour winner and helped smuggle forged documents around Nazi controlled Italy to help Jews escape capture when training!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Road-Valour-Bartali-France-Legend/dp/0753828146


 
Posted : 21/08/2017 12:23 pm
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A Time of Gifts - Robin Leigh Fermoy


 
Posted : 21/08/2017 1:26 pm
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Karen Darke - If You Fall

Scott Jurek - Eat and Run


 
Posted : 21/08/2017 4:12 pm
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I have read touching the void and seen the author speak, amazing story and book.

Great stuff.
Thanks for the suggestions.


 
Posted : 21/08/2017 4:22 pm
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Bookmarked


 
Posted : 21/08/2017 4:26 pm
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John Krakauer - Into Thin Air
Anatoly Boukreev - The Climb
Beck Weathers - Left For Dead.

All separate accounts of the same disastrous ascent of Everest.

Mark Beaumont - The Man Who Cycled the Earth
Mike Carter - One Man And His Bike


 
Posted : 21/08/2017 4:32 pm
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Not exactly what you asked for, but this book "[url= https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mammoth-Travel-Dangerous-Places-Books/dp/184901311X ]Travel In Dangerous Places[/url]" is full of chapter-length extracts from all sorts of fascinating travel memoirs, mostly from the 'Golden Age of Exploration' i.e. just before various colonial takeovers really kicked off.

As such it's quite fragmented but a good jumping-off point for finding the full accounts of ones you find interesting...


 
Posted : 21/08/2017 4:40 pm
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I have read touching the void and seen the author speak, amazing story and book.

You might like Against the wall by Simon? Yates, the bloke who cut the rope


 
Posted : 21/08/2017 5:16 pm
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http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/william-finnegan

You don't need to have ever surfed to enjoy it. It's just an excellent book.

Caught inside and lighting out by Dan Duane are good too. Ones surf related, the other climbing Yosemite related.


 
Posted : 21/08/2017 8:49 pm
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Psychovertical
The ascent of Rum Doodle


 
Posted : 21/08/2017 9:05 pm
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If you read psychovertical it's also worth reading the follow up Cold Wars


 
Posted : 21/08/2017 9:08 pm

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