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The Traveller's Bookshelf: three mountain books
Three books we would pack.
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen — an account of a journey across the Himalaya in Nepal, part nature writing, part spiritual search. Read it for the prose.
Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane — a history of why people have felt drawn to high places. Read it to see mountains as an idea.
Annapurna by Maurice Herzog — the account of the first ascent of an eight-thousand-metre peak, in 1950. Read it as a historical document, and with other accounts alongside it.
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