Between a rock and a hard place (Plus fort qu'un roc)

Aaron Ralston

It's the story of that guy whose arm got caught between 2 huge boulders in a canyon during 6 days and he had to amputate himself to deliver his limb. A story about courage, strentgh and freedom...

Into thin air

Jon Krakauer

No need for introduction. The big storm on Everest in 1996, and THE book that made me want to learn more and more about Everest.

Above the clouds

Anatoli Boukreev

Stories of mountaineering from Anatoli Boukreev. 

High Exposure

David Breashears

Autobiography of this great climber and IMAX movie maker. He was there in 1996 and help rescue people on the mountain. Another version of the tragedy plus his own story as a rock climber.

Climbing High

Lene Gamelgaard

An account from a woman on Scott Fischer's expedition in 1996. Also first woman from Denmark to climb Everest.

Facing Up

Bear Grylls

Youngest briton on Everest in 1998.

Left for dead

Beck Weathers

The miraculous revival and awakening of this man who has been left for dead 3 times on Everest in 1996. The IMAX team helped him get off the mountain. A "must read" book.

Doctor on Everest

Kenneth Kamler

The doctor who helped the people in 1996.

Touching my father's soul

Jamling Tenzing Norgay

Tenzing Norgay's son recounts his own climb. He stars in the IMAX movie of 1996.

Rêves de Montagnes (Eiger Dreams)

Jon Krakauer

Different stories about life as a mountaineer.

The mountains, my daughter and me

Geoffrey Norman

A dad and his daughter climbing Aconcagua, in Argentina.

Flash ou Le Grand Voyage

Charles Duchaussois

A french man recounts his trip through Europe and Asia in the late 60's in order to get to the capital of the hippies, Kathmandu... and how he got badly into drugs, and how he got rescued "in extremis"...  This is a book I read when I was a teenager and when I was using drugs myself. At that time I wanted to go to Kathmandu, but not for the same reasons that brought me there last year. When I was a teen, I wanted to go there because I thought it would be cool to smoke hasch and Opium in a restaurant in Kathmandu... with the hippies! When I started planning the trip to EBC, I re-read that book because I remembered how I felt about that city, when I was reading the book.

When I was in Kathmandu last year, I went on Freak Street and saw some of the places that Charles Duchaussois was talking about in his book. It used to be the area where the hippies would hang around, before Thamel was more popular with trekkers.     

Seven Summits

Dick Bass, Frank Wells with Rick Ridgeway

The account of the first man who climbed the most highest peak on each continent in the world.

The Climb

Anatoli Boukreev

The reply to Jon Krakauer from Anatoli Boukreev. I wanted to have both versions...

More images to come...

L'Everest, Rêve ou Destin

Maxime Jean

An account of the first team totally from Quebec on top of the world, in 2003.

L'Everest m'a conquit

Yves Laforêt

First man from Quebec to climb Mount Everest in 1991.

So far, as of 2006, there has been 9 men from Quebec on the summit of Mount Everest. This year, 7 quebecers are trying to climb on top of the world. They are spread out in 3 expeditions, 2 on the south side and one on the north side.