Reading list –

My favorite books on mountaineering, skiing, landscape literature and art

 

The Artists of the Alpine Club: a Biographical Dictionary by Peter Mallalieu

Climbing Days by Dorothy Pilley

The Artist’s Studio: A Cultural History by James Hall

Unquiet Landscape: Places and Ideas in 20th Century British Painting by Christopher Neve

Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews

The Salt Path by Raynor Winn

The Color of the Moon: Lunar Painting in American Art, exhibition catalogue

The Training of the Memory in Art, and the Education of the Artist by Lecoq De Boisbaudran

Loppe: Alpine Painter by William Mitchell

American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States by Andrew Wilton & Tim Barringer

The Art of Skiing by Jenny De Gex

Two Planks and a Passion by Roland Huntford

In Monte Viso’s Horizon by Will McLewin

True Tales of Mountain Adventure by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond

A Little Walk on Skis by Peter & Beryl Wilberforce Smith

Into the Silence by Wade Davis

Dreams of a Summer Night, Catalogue from Hayward Gallery, London

American Visions by Robert Hughes

Painting as an Art by Richard Wollheim

The End of Night by Paul Bogard

Skiing around the World by Jimmy Petterson

The Wildest Dream by Peter and Leni Gillman

Mountains of the Mind by Robert MacFarlane

The Wild Places by Robert MacFarlane

Free Skiing by Jimmy Oden

All But One by Barbara Swindin

Alps 4000 by Martin Moran

Avalanche Know-How by Gunter Durner and Brian Farquharson

Who Says That’s Art? by Michelle Marder Kamhi

Classic Alpine Trek from Argentiere to Zermatt

The Snow Tourist by Charlie English

Swiss Watching: Inside the Land of Milk & Money by Diccon Bewes

The Haute Route by Peter Cliff