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Fiction    

	BK	Blood On The Lotus - Novel about a climber, Tibet, CIA, and a few twists...
	BK	Bright Air - Mystery/Thriller
	VD	Cliff Hanger - (Action, R) Sly Stallone and his bolt gun run amuck.
	BK	Spurred Ambition - rockclimbing romance (?)
	VD	The Eiger Sanction - (Action, R) Clint Eastwood plays James Bond on the Eiger in the Swiss Alps

Narratives    

	BK	Camp 4: Recollections Of A Yosemite Rockclimber - Yosemite's Camp 4 in the 1960s, back in the day of Harding, Powell, Robbins, Pratt, Chouinard
	BK	Climb, The: Tragic Ambitions on Everest - 1996 Everest Tragedy
	BK	Climbing Free - My Life in the Vertical World. Lynn Hill Autobiography.
	BK	Close Calls: Climbing Mishaps and near death experiences - Recounts 68 true tales of climbers who let their guard down and lived to tell about it.
	BK	Fragile Edge: A Personal Portrait of Loss on Everest - A deeply personal love story & a penetrating look into the world of professional climbers
	BK	The Second Death of George Mallory - The Enigma and Spirit of Mt Everest
	BK	Vertical World of Yosemite, The - Yosemite climbs described by the climbers who made the first ascents
	BK	Where The Mountain Casts Its Shadow. - The Personal Costs of Climbing. Winner of Mountain Literature Award at 2003 Banff Mountain Book Festival.

Non-Fiction    

	BK	Alone Across Australia - One mans trek across a continent.
	BK	Arapiles - a million mountains - Full colour coffee table book; not a climbing book: it’s a book about a great climbing area.
	VD	Base Climb - (Doco) Two Australians team up to climb and base jump from the Great Trango Tower in Pakistan
	BK	Between a Rock and A Hard Place - A recounting of a harrowing epic and dramatic escape.
	BK	Climbing High - A womans account of surviving the '96 Everest tragedy.
	DV	Everest (IMAX) - (Doco) Follows the IMAX team's ascent of Everest in 96
	VD	Hard Way To The Top, The - (Doco) Mt Buffalo granite aid climbs, Ozymandias and Lord Gum Tree
	VD	Masters of Stone 4 - Pure Force - (Doco) Climbing & BASE jumping in Yosemite, California, Spain, etc.
	BK	Rock Climbing In Australia - Stunning coffee table book of photographs
	DV	Salathe - Blood Sweat And Bagels - (Doco) Free Climbing The Salathe Wall on El Capital, Yosemite.
	DV	Touching the Void - The movie of the popular book by Joe Simpson.
	DV	Vertical Frontier - A history of the Art, Sport, and Philosophy of Rock Climbing in Yosemite.

Instructional    

	BK	Advanced Rock Climbing - How to Rock Climb Series
	BK	Advanced Rockcraft - Informative book covering 'leading' & 'old fashioned hard aid'
	BK	Basic Rockcraft - Royal Robbins instructional manual
	BK	Big Wall Climbing: Elite Technique. - One of a series of eight Mountaineers Outdoor Expert books
	BK	Big Walls - How to Rock Climb Series
	BK	Climb On - Skills for more efficient climbing - How to rockclimb series.
	BK	Climbing Anchors - How to Rock Climb Series
	BK	Climbing Big Walls - Basic to advanced instruction for climbing Big Walls.
	BK	More Climbing Anchors - How to Rock Climb Series
	BK	Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills - The Bible for climbers and mountaineers
	BK	Self-Rescue - How to Rock Climb Series

Guides (Australian)