Я стала поклонницей литературы об альпинизме после того, как в начале девяностых прочла книгу «Прикосновение к пустоте» Джо Симпсона. Попробовав этот «легкий наркотик», я уже не могла остановиться. Ниже приводится перечень книг и блогов, ставших неоценимым ресурсом при написании этого романа (большую часть из них лучше читать перед камином, когда за окном бушует непогода).

Andrew, Jamie, Life and Limb, Portrait, 2005.

Anker, Conrad and Roberts, David, The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Everest, Robinson, 1999.

Arnette, Alan, alanarnette.com.

Blum, Arlene, Annapurna: A Woman’s Place, Granada, 1980.

Blum, Arlene, Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life, Scribner, 2005.

Bonatti, Walter, The Mountains of my Life, Penguin Modern Classics, 2010.

Boukreev, Anatoli and DeWalt, G. Weston, The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest, Pan Books, 2002.

Breashears, David, High Exposure: An Endearing Passion for Everest and Other Unforgiving Places, Canongate, 2014.

Bowley, Graham, No Way Down: Life and Death on K2, Penguin Viking, 2010.

Burgess, Adrian and Alan, The Burgess Book of Lies, The Mountaineers, 1998.

Cave, Andy, Learning to Breathe, Hutchinson London, 2005.

Coburn, Broughton, Everest: Mountain Without Mercy, National Geographic Society, 1997.

Coffey, Maria, Where the Mountain Casts its Shadow: The Personal Costs of Climbing, Arrow Books, 2004.

Curran, Jim, K2, Triumph and Tragedy, Hodder & Stoughton, 1987.

Da Silva, Rachel, Leading Out: Mountaineering Stories of Adventurous Women, Seal Press, 1998.

Davis, Wade, Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, Bodley Head, 2011.

Dickinson, Matt, The Death Zone, Arrow Books, 2011.

Diemberger, Kurt, The Endless Knot: K2, Mountain of Dreams and Destiny, Vertebrate Publishing, 2013.

Douglas, Ed and Rose, David, Regions of the Heart: The Triumph and Tragedy of Alison Hargreaves, National Geographic Society, 2000.

Douglas, Ed, Chomolungma Sings the Blues: Travels Round Everest, Constable and Robinson, 2001.

Eicher, Donnie, Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident, Chronicle Books, 2013.

Eyre, Jim and Frankland, John, Race Against Time, Lyon Books, 1988.

Falvey, Pat and Sherpa Gyalje, Pemba, The Summit: How Triumph Turned to Tragedy on K2’s Deadliest Days, Beyond Endurance Publishing, 2014.

Gammelgaard, Lene, Climbing High: A Woman’s Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy, Seal Press, 1999.

Geiger, John, The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible, Canongate, 2009.

Hall, Lincoln, Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest, Tarcher/Penguin, 2007.

Hall, Lincoln with Fear, Sue, Fear No Boundary: One Woman’s Amazing Journey, Hatchette Australia, 2005.

Hargreaves, Alison, A Hard Day’s Summer, Coronet, 1995.

Harrer, Heinrich, The White Spider, Harper Collins, 2005.

Heil, Nick, Dark Summit, Virgin Books, 2009.

Hemmleb, Jochen and A Johnson, Larry and R Simonson, Eric, Ghosts of Everest: The Authorized Story of the Search for Mallory & Irvine, Macmillan, 1999.

Hemmleb, John and R Simonson, Eric, Detectives on Everest: The 2001 Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition, The Mountaineers Books, 2002.

Herzog, Maurice, Annapurna, Vintage, 2011.

Holzel, Tom and Salkeld, Audrey, The Mystery of Mallory & Irvine, Jonathan Cape, 1986.

Horrell, Mark, Denali Nights: A Commercial Expedition to Climb Mt McKinley’s West Buttress, Mountain Footsteps Press, 2014.

Horrell, Mark, In the Footsteps of Mallory: A Journey to the North Col of Everest, Mark Horrell, 2013.

Horrell, Mark, The Ascent of Manaslu: Climbing the World’s Eighth Highest Mountain, Mountain Footsteps Press, 2013.

Horrell, Mark, The Chomolungma Diaries, Mark Horrell, 2012.

Horrell, Mark, Thieves, Liars and Mountaineers: On the 8000 Metre Peak Circus in Pakistan’s Karakoram Mountains, Mountain Footsteps Press, 2012.

Hoyland, Graham, Last Hours on Everest: The Gripping Story of Mallory & Irvine’s Fatal Ascent, Collins, 2013.

James, Tori, Peak Performance: The First Welsh Woman to Climb Everest, Accent Press, 2013.

Jordan, Jennifer, Savage Summit: The Life and Death of the First Women of K2, Harper Collins e-books, 2005.

Kirkpatrick, Andy, Cold Wars: Climbing the Fine Line Between Risk and Reality, Vertebrate, 2011.

Kirkpatrick, Andy, Psychovertical, Arrow Books, 2009.

Kodas, Michael, High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed, Hyperion e-books, 2008.

Krakauer, Jon, Into Thin Air: The Illustrated Edition, Villard New York, 1998.

Lovelock, James, Life and Death Under-Ground, G.Bell and Sons LTD, 1963.

Macfarlane, Robert, Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination, Granta Books, 2008.

Mazel, David, Mountaineering Women: Stories by Early Climbers, Texas A&M University Press, 1994.

Mcdonald, Bernadette, Freedom Climbers, RMB, 2011.

Noble, Chris, Women Who Dare: North America’s Most Inspiring Women Climbers, Falcon Guides, 2013.

O’Dowd, Cathy and Woodall, Ian, Everest: Free to Decide, Zebra Press, 1997.

O’Dowd, Cathy, Just for the Love of it: The First Woman to Climb Mount Everest From Both Sides, Crux Publishing, 1999.

Perrin, Jim, The Villain: The Life of Don Whillans, Hutchinson London, 2005.

Ralston, Aron, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Pocket Books, 2005.

Ratcliffe, Graham, A Day to Die For, Mainstream Publishing, 2013.

Reinisch, Gertrude, Wanda Rutkiewicz – A Caravan of Dreams, Carreg LTD, 2000.

Rowell, Galen, In the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods, Sierra Club Books, 1986.

Schultheis, Rob, Bone Games: Extreme Sports, Shamanism, Zen, and the Search for Transcendence, Breakaway Books, 1996.

Simpson, Joe, The Beckoning Silence, Vintage, 2003.

Simpson, Joe, Dark Shadows Falling, Jonathan Cape London, 1997.

Simpson, Joe, Touching the Void, Heinemann, 2009.

Tasker, Joe, Everest the Cruel Way, Vertebrate, 2013.

Tenzing Norgay, Jamlin and Coburn Broughton, Touching My Father’s Soul: A Sherpa’s Sacred Journey to the Top of Everest, Ebury Press, 2002.

Trueman, Mike, The Storms: Adventure and Tragedy on Everest, Baton Wicks, 2015.

Tullis, Julie, Clouds From Both Sides, Grafton, 1987.

Venables, Stephen, Everest: Alone at the Summit, Adrenaline Classics, 2000.

Venables, Stephen, A Slender Thread: Escaping Disaster in the Himalaya, Hutchinson London, 2000.

Vernon, Ken, Everest ’96, Ken Vernon, 2015.

Viesturs, Ed with Roberts, David, K2: Life and Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain, Broadway Books, 2009.

Viesturs, Ed with Roberts, David, No Shortcuts To the Top: Climbing the World’s 14 Highest Peaks, Broadway Books, 2006.

Weathers, Beck, Left For Dead: My Journey Home From Everest, Little, Brown and Company, 2000.

Willis, Clint, The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing’s Greatest Generation, Portico, 2006.

Yates, Simon, Against the Wall, Vintage, 1998.

Yates, Simon, The Wild Within: Climbing the World’s Most Remote Mountains, Vertebrate Publishing, 2012.

Zuckerman, Peter and Padoan, Amanda, Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2’s Deadliest Day, W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.