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Books like Touching the Void

24 books recommended for fans of Touching the Void by Joe Simpson, tied together by themes of Mountaineering, Adventure, Special Interest, and Sports & Recreation.

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Top related books to Touching the Void

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Touching the Void.

Touching the Void The True Story of One Man’s Miraculous Survival — Joe Simpson

Touching the Void The True Story of One Man’s Miraculous Survival

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventure • Special Interest

To the End of the Earth The Race to Solve Polar Exploration’s Greatest Mystery — Tom Avery

To the End of the Earth The Race to Solve Polar Exploration’s Greatest Mystery

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventure • Special Interest

Hidden Mountains Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong — Michael Wejchert

Hidden Mountains Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong

Michael Wejchert

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventure • Special Interest

The Girl Who Climbed Everest Lessons learned facing up to the world’s toughest mountains — Bonita Norris

The Girl Who Climbed Everest Lessons learned facing up to the world’s toughest mountains

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventure • Special Interest

Enduring Patagonia — Gregory Crouch

Enduring Patagonia

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventure • Special Interest

The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places — John Keay

The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventure • Special Interest

Everest 1951 The Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition 1951 — Eric Shipton

Everest 1951 The Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition 1951

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventure • Special Interest

The Last of His Kind The Life and Adventures of Bradford Washburn, America’s Boldest Mountaineer — David Roberts

The Last of His Kind The Life and Adventures of Bradford Washburn, America’s Boldest Mountaineer

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventure • Special Interest

The Great Quest Fifty Us State High Points and More — Matthew Gilbertson

The Great Quest Fifty Us State High Points and More

Matthew Gilbertson

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventure • Special Interest

The Third Pole Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest — Mark Synnott

The Third Pole Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventure • Special Interest

The Kid Who Climbed Everest The Incredible Story of a 23-Year-Old’s Summit of Mt. Everest — Bear Grylls

The Kid Who Climbed Everest The Incredible Story of a 23-Year-Old’s Summit of Mt. Everest

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventure • Special Interest

High Adventure — Edmund Hillary

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventure • Special Interest

Dark Summit The Extraordinary True Story of Everest’s Most Controversial Season — Nick Heil

Dark Summit The Extraordinary True Story of Everest’s Most Controversial Season

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventure • Special Interest

In Beauty May She Walk Hiking the Appalachian Trail at 60 — Leslie Mass

In Beauty May She Walk Hiking the Appalachian Trail at 60

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventure • Special Interest

The Ascent of Everest — John Hunt Baron Hunt

The Ascent of Everest

John Hunt Baron Hunt

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventure • Special Interest

Climbing High A Woman’s Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy — Lene Gammelgaard

Climbing High A Woman’s Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy

Lene Gammelgaard

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventure • Special Interest

The White Ladder Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering — Daniel Light

The White Ladder Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventure • Special Interest

Instead The Sometimes Complicated Choice of an Adventurous, Childfree Life — Maria Coffey

Instead The Sometimes Complicated Choice of an Adventurous, Childfree Life

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventure • Special Interest

Bear Grylls: Two All-Action Adventures Facing Up – Facing the Frozen Ocean — Bear Grylls

Bear Grylls: Two All-Action Adventures Facing Up – Facing the Frozen Ocean

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventure • Special Interest

Breathe Life Lessons from the Edge of the World — Mollie Hughes

Breathe Life Lessons from the Edge of the World

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventure • Special Interest

Inner Ranges An Anthology of Mountain Thoughts and Mountain People — Geoff Powter

Inner Ranges An Anthology of Mountain Thoughts and Mountain People

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventure • Special Interest

The Lost Explorer Finding Mallory on Mount Everest — Conrad Anker

The Lost Explorer Finding Mallory on Mount Everest

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventure • Special Interest

Up: My Life’s Journey to the Top of Everest — Ben Fogle

Up: My Life’s Journey to the Top of Everest

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventure • Special Interest

Everest — Ammonite Press

Themes: Mountaineering • Adventure • Special Interest

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Mountaineering, Adventure, Special Interest — the same threads that run through Touching the Void by Joe Simpson. Among the authors featured: Joe Simpson, Tom Avery, Michael Wejchert, Bonita Norris, and others.

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