Amy McCulloch is the author of eight novels for children and young adults, including the internationally bestselling YA novel The Magpie Society: One for Sorrow. In September 2019, she became the youngest Canadian woman to climb Manaslu in Nepal--the world's eighth-highest mountain. She also summited the highest mountain in the Americas, Aconcagua, in -50°F temperatures and 55 mph winds, and has visited all seven continents. Breathless is her adult fiction debut.
At CrimeReads McCulloch tagged eight "favorite thrilling books to read about mountaineering," including:
Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerRead about another entry on the list.
It’s impossible to talk about mountaineering literature without mentioning Into Thin Air—the incredible true story of the 1996 Everest disaster, where eight climbers were killed in a storm. Jon was a journalist covering the expedition for Outside magazine, and his writing is gripping, compelling and haunting. For an alternate point of view of the expedition, The Climb by Anton Boukreev is worth reading as well.
Into Thin Air is among four books that changed Rupert Guinness, Jeff Somers's five best books where nature is the antagonist, Nicole Dieker's top nine books even non-readers will love, James Mustich's five top books about mountaineering, and Ed Douglas's ten best survival stories.
--Marshal Zeringue
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