To the summit : fifty mountains that lure, inspire and challenge /
Poindexter, Joseph.
New York, N.Y. : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers,
c1998.
Includes bibliography and index.
Asia. K2: from K2: the story of a savage mountain by Jim Curran ; Biography, Charles S. Houston -- Nanga Parbat: from All 14-eight-thousanders by Reinhold Messner -- Trango Tower -- Nanda Devi: from "Nanda Devi from the North" by Willi Unsoeld -- Kanchenjunga -- Annapurna: from Annapurna by Maurice Herzog -- Mount Everest: from "Life is a mountain: into thin air and beyond" by Thomas F. Hornbein ; Biography, George Leigh Mallory ; Biography, Stacy Allison ; Biography, Thomas Hornbein ; from Into thin air by Jon Krakauer ; from "Sherpas on Everest" by Liesl Clark and Audrey Salkeld -- Pik Kommunizma: from Storm and sorrow in the high Pamirs by Robert W. Craig -- Mount Ararat -- Mount Fuji.
Africa. Mount Kenya -- Mount Kilimanjaro -- Mount Stanley: Biography, the Duke of Abruzzi.  Australasia & Antarctica.  Carstensz Pyramid: Biography, Sir Edmund Hillary -- Mount Cook -- Vinson Massif.
Europe. Ben Nevis: from One man's mountains by Tom Patey ; Biography, Douglas Scott -- Snowdon: from "The mountaineer as artist" by George Leigh Mallory -- Mont Blanc: Biography, Albert Mummery ; from Solo faces by James Salter -- Grandes Jorasses: biography, Catherine Destivelle -- Eiger: Biography, Reinhold Messner ; from Starlight and storm: the ascent of six great north faces of the Alps by Gaston Rebuffat -- Jungfrau -- Matterhorn: from Scrambles amongst the Alps by Edward Whymper ; biography, Edward Whymper -- Piz Bernina -- Monte Rosa -- Cima Grande: from A soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin -- Mount Elbrus.
North America. Denali: Biography, Bradford Washburn -- Mount Saint Elias: from On mountains: thinking about terrain by John Jerome -- Mount Hood -- Mount Rainier: biography, James W. Whittaker -- Longs Peak -- South Maroon -- Grand Teton -- Mount Owen: from "A test of will" by Al Alvarez -- Devil's Tower -- Mount Whitney: biography, Yvon Chouinard -- El Capitan: Camp Four by Doug Robinson -- Mount Logan -- Mount Robson -- Mount Assiniboine: Biography, Fred Beckey -- Bugaboo Spire -- Mount Asgard -- Mount Washington: biography, Miriam Underhill.
South America. Chimborazo -- Huascaran -- Alpamayo -- Yerupaja: from Touching the void by Joe Simpson -- Aconcagua: Mountain sickness by Charles S. Houston -- Fitzroy.
Mountaineering.
Mountains.