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Fiction    

	VD	-
	BK	Blood On The Lotus - Novel about a climber, Tibet, CIA, and a few twists...
	BK	Bright Air - Mystery/Thriller
	VD	Cliff Hanger - (Action, R) Sly Stallone and his bolt gun run amuck.
	BK	Freedom Climbers - 2011 Boardman Tasker prize-winning modern history of Polish Alpinism / Himalayan climbing
	VD	HEIMAT FILMS - Films produced in the 1920s & 30's
	VD	Into Thin Air: Death on Everest - (Drama, PG) Made for TV movie of the Jon Krakauer book by the same title.
	VD	K2 - (Thriller) Two climbers join an ascent on K2
	DV	Scream of Stone - In this battle, there can be no winners...
	BK	Spurred Ambition - rockclimbing romance (?)
	DV	Storm and Sorrow - base on Robert Craig's book about the American team's expedition to the Pamirs in the early 70s
	BK	The Ascent of Rum Doodle - A classic that every climber should read.
	VD	The Eiger Sanction - (Action, R) Clint Eastwood plays James Bond on the Eiger in the Swiss Alps
	VD	The Mountain - (Drama) Exciting mountaineering action tops this morality play about two brothers in a poor Alpine village and their vastly different reactions to the crash of a luxury airliner on a nearby peak.
	BK	The Rope Dancer - A tale of mountaineering gone wrong, injury and recovery, and the search for meaning through living dangerously.
	BK	The Universe Within - Climbing adventure mystery science philosophy - all rolled together. Author is an Australian climber so draws heavily on Arapiles and other crags.
	VD	The White Tower - From the novel by James Ramsey Ullman
	VD	Vertical Limit - (Action, PG) K2 & Nitroglycerin don't mix.

Narratives    

	BK	17 Down Under - A celebration of moderate grade climbs
	BK	Above the Clouds - The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer
	BK	All Fourteen 8,000ers - The first man to stand on all 14 of the world's 8000-meter peaks
	BK	Annapurna - First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak
	BK	Annapurna: A Woman's Place - The 1978 all-woman ascent of Annapurna I
	BK	Beckoning Silence, The - An assault on the North Face of the Eiger and thoughts on the dark side of mountaineering.
	BK	Big Walls: Breakthroughs on the Free-Climbing Frontier - Paul Piana's account of his & Todd Skinner's Big Wall climbs. Inc 93 color photos.
	BK	Boardman Tasker Omnibus, The - Savage Arena, the Shining Mountain, Sacred Summits, Everest the Cruel Way
	BK	Camp 4: Recollections Of A Yosemite Rockclimber - Yosemite's Camp 4 in the 1960s, back in the day of Harding, Powell, Robbins, Pratt, Chouinard
	BK	Climb, The: Tragic Ambitions on Everest - 1996 Everest Tragedy
	BK	Climbing Free - My Life in the Vertical World. Lynn Hill Autobiography.
	BK	Close Calls: Climbing Mishaps and near death experiences - Recounts 68 true tales of climbers who let their guard down and lived to tell about it.
	BK	Conquistadors of the Useless - From the Alps to Annapurna
	BK	Dark Shadows Falling - Joe Simpson wonders if the essence of the sport has been completely lost.
	BK	Deep Play - A Climber's Odyssey from Llanberis to the Big Walls
	BK	Eiger Dreams - Ventures Among Men and Mountains
	BK	El Capitan: Historic Feats & Radical Routes - Traces El Capitan's unique big wall history. 36 duotone photos.
	BK	Epic - Stories Of Survival From World's Highest Peaks
	BK	Everest: Eighty Years of Triumph & Tragedy - Featuring major ascents & first-person perspectives. 130 color photos, 50 b/w photos .
	BK	Everest: Mountain Without Mercy - Story of film-maker David Breashears' Imax photographic expedition to Everest in 96. Inc 125 color photos.
	BK	Everest: The West Ridge - In 1963 Thomas Hornbein, and his partner Willi Unsoeld committed themselves to world's tallest peak
	BK	Expeditions - Get inside the skull of Andrew Lindblade
	BK	Facing Up - 23 year old Briton reaches Everest summit
	BK	Fatal Mountaineer - Life story of Willi Unsoeld, American Himalayan climber
	BK	Fifty Favorite Climbs: The Ultimate North American Tick List - Fifty of the most accomplished climbers reveal their all-time favorite climbs
	BK	Flame of Adventure, The - Yates shares his perspective on climbing styles, personal experiences & cultures encountered in his travels.
	BK	Fragile Edge: A Personal Portrait of Loss on Everest - A deeply personal love story & a penetrating look into the world of professional climbers
	BK	Games Climbers Play, The - Large climbing anthology. Draws material from climbing periodicals.
	BK	Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine - What they found with George Mallory's body. Did they make it? And if they did, what happened to them?
	BK	High - Stories of Survival from Everest and K2.
	BK	In High Places - Autobiography of Dougal Haston's climbing life
	BK	Into Thin Air - A Personal Account of the 1996 Mount Everest Disaster
	BK	John Gill: Master of Rock - Shows bouldering like it is: raw, pure, all-encompassing. Includes 160 B&W Photos.
	BK	Kiss or Kill - Confessions of a Serial Climber - A collection of short articles Twight has had printed in a variety of publications, which have comments from the author following each.
	BK	Kurt Diemberger Omnibus, The - Includes Summits and Secrets: The Endless Knot: Spirits of the Air
	BK	Last Step, The: The American Ascent of K2 - Account of the 1978 climb of K2 via the west ridge.
	BK	Left For Dead - Beck Weather's extraordinary story about his survival from the 1996 Mt Everest tragedy
	BK	Mixed Emotions - Mountaineering writings of Greg Child - Selected writings of Greg Child
	BK	Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage: The Lonely Challenge - Story of Herman Buhl's training and earlier climbs that lead up to his solo FA of Nanga Parbat
	BK	Native Stones: A Book about Climbing - autobiographical account of British rockclimbing
	BK	One Step Beyond - Bushwalker and climber, Warren meets with tradedgy.
	BK	Over the Edge - Climbers Kidnap and Escape into the Mountains of Central Asia
	BK	Regions of the Heart - The Triumph and Tragedy of Alison Hargreaves
	BK	Sheer Will - The Awe Inspiring Climbs of Mike Groom. Includes 73 colour photos.
	BK	Starlight and Storm - From the 1920s to the 1950s, the race for first ascents in the Alps and Dolomites
	BK	Stone Crusade - A Historical Guide to Bouldering in America
	VD	The North Face/ Nanga Parbat - Comparing two German films about historically significant climbing events
	BK	The Second Death of George Mallory - The Enigma and Spirit of Mt Everest
	VD	The Spray - Climbing road trip in Northern California
	BK	This Game of Ghosts - Climber Joe Simpson reveals a lifetime of flirtation with danger
	BK	Totem Pole, The - Devestating accident while climbing Tasmania's famous sea stack.
	BK	Touching My Father's Soul - A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest by the climbing leader for the IMAX 96 team
	BK	Touching the Void - The Harrowing First Person Account Of One Man's Miraculous Survival
	BK	Vertical World of Yosemite, The - Yosemite climbs described by the climbers who made the first ascents
	BK	View from the Summit - The life story of Sir Edmund Hillary. Autobiography
	BK	Where The Mountain Casts Its Shadow. - The Personal Costs of Climbing. Winner of Mountain Literature Award at 2003 Banff Mountain Book Festival.
	BK	White Limbo - The First Australian Climb of Mt Everest
	BK	White Spider, The - The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger
	BK	Wildest Dream, The - The Biography of George Mallory
	BK	Wind in My Hair, The - The story of Brigitte Muir, first Australian women to climb the Seven Summits
	BK	Within Reach: My Everest Story - Pfetzer, 18 at the time of publication, describes his summits of a number of peaks worthy of a climber twice his age

Non-Fiction    

	DV	14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible - World Record ascent of all 14 8000ers in 6 months by Nepalese mountaineers
	DV	A Colorado Daydream - This Film profiles the balancing act of 'real life' vs. climbing. Filmed in some of the best scenery the Rocky Mountains have to offer, and featuring problems that are both aesthetic and difficult.
	VD	A Day In The Life - (Doco) The life of 5 women climbers
	VD	A Film By Some Climbers - (Doco) Low budget, UK home video, jam packed with hard gritstone headpointing.
	BK	A Life in the Vertical - A biography of Wolfgang Gullich
	VD	A Summer in the Southern Alps - Vaughan and the RMIT crew take on various peaks in NZ.
	DV	Action Direct - Dai Koyamada's 2005 redpoint of Action Direct (9a) in Germany's Frankenjura
	BK	Alone Across Australia - One mans trek across a continent.
	BK	Arapiles - a million mountains - Full colour coffee table book; not a climbing book: it’s a book about a great climbing area.
	VD	Autana - A first ascent on Autana in the Venezeulan Amazon
	DV	Autoroute - Americans climbing in Europe
	VD	Base Climb - (Doco) Two Australians team up to climb and base jump from the Great Trango Tower in Pakistan
	VD	Base Climb 2: Defying Gravity - (Doco) Husband and wife climb and base jump the highest cliff in the world
	VD	Best Forgotten Art - (Doco) A voyage of crack climbing discovery.
	VD	Best of Horsetooth Bouldering, The - (Doco) Best boulder problems at Horestooth Reservoir in Colorado
	DV	Best of the West - Bouldering
	BK	Between a Rock and A Hard Place - A recounting of a harrowing epic and dramatic escape.
	VD	Between The Rain - (Doco) Bouldering, deepwater soloing, onsight climbing, gritstone ground-up climbing, cragging, soloing, and big wall free climbing
	DV	Big Game - Bouldering NZ
	VD	Big Issue, The - (Doco) Profile of one of the world's most successful and controversial climbers, John Dunne.
	VD	Big Up: Bouldering in the Gunks - (Doco) Birth of the East Coast bouldering revolution
	VD	Black Lung - (Doco) Ben Moon and Jerry Moffatt's visit to Utah Bouldering
	VD	Bleau - (Doco) French bouldering in the forests of the Fontainebleau. Subtitles.
	DV	Blood, Sweat & Bagels - Personal journey of two British climbers attempting to free climb The Salathe Wall
	VD	B-Sides, The - (Doco) - One year of climbing across the nation.
	VD	Buoux 8c - The youth of England show the french how it's done...
	DV	Centre of the Universe - Yosemite
	DV	Classic Red - Select climbs of the Red River Gorge, Kentucky USA
	BK	Classic Rock - Climbing in the UK with large format photography. A best seller.
	VD	Climb - (Doco) America's top rock climbers in Hueco Tanks, The Diamond, Tennesse Wall, etc.
	VD	Climb International - (Doco) Climbing in Southeast Asia from China to Thailand
	VD	Climb, The - The story of Hermann Buhl's climb of Nanga Parbat
	BK	Climbing High - A womans account of surviving the '96 Everest tragedy.
	VD	Coming At Ya Hyper - (Doco) Australian Sport Climbing
	DV	Committed -
	DV	Committed 2 - Blighty
	VD	Contact - (Doco) Bouldering at New Zealand's Castle Hill
	VD	Crux, The - Australia's Hottest Rockclimbing
	VD	Dartmoor Bouldering 365 - (Doco) Films of bouldering on Dartmoor
	DV	Depth charge - Deep water soloing in Croatia
	DV	Dosage (Volume 1) - (Doco) High-end sport climbing & bouldering
	DV	Dosage (Volume 2) - (Doco) Hard boulders and deep water soloing
	DV	Dosage IV -
	DV	Dosage V -
	DV	Dosage Vol 3 -
	DV	E11 - Rhapsody
	DV	Echo Wall - Glen and Ben Nevis
	VD	Edge, The - (Doco) Scottish mountaineering, as shown on the BBC.
	VD	Eiger Solo - (Doco) 1st British solo ascent of the Eiger North Face. Winner of Best Mountaineering Film award.
	BK	Enduring Patagonia - Alpinist adventure, epics, fear, and freedom in Patagonia.
	VD	Eos - (Doco) Four of Australia's best young climbers sport climbing and bouldering in New Zealand
	VD	Eos 2: Dreamtime - (Doco) Bouldering some of the hardest routes in Australia
	VD	Equilibrium - (Doco) Preparation and ascent of Equilibrium, the ultimate gritstone route.
	DV	Everest (IMAX) - (Doco) Follows the IMAX team's ascent of Everest in 96
	VD	Everest Unmasked - (Doco) First Ascent of Everest without supplemental oxygen
	VD	Face, The - (Doco) Climbs in six of the world's most spectacular mountain locations. As shown on the BBC.
	VD	Fast Twitch - (Doco) Western USA bouldering and sport climbing film, featuring Chris Sharma on Just Do It.
	DV	First Ascent - The latest and greatest release from Sender Films.
	VD	First Ascent - The latest and greatest release from Sender Films.
	BK	First Ascent: The Life and Climbs of Greg Mortimer - Biography of Australian Mountaineer
	VD	Free Climbing - The Nose - (Doco) Lynn Hill climbs The Nose of El Cap all free in a day.
	VD	Free Hueco! - (Doco) Boulderers. Terrifying topouts and gut wrenching falls.
	VD	Frequent Flyers - (Doco) The best bouldering around the world
	DV	Frequent Flyers (Inc. Black Lung) - (Doco) Around the world tickets, minimal luggage, a crash pad climbing shoes and chalk
	DV	Friction Addiction Black Hills Gold - (Doco) Brings you an amazing summer of daring runouts and highball first ascents from the sharp end of South Dakota's Black Hills
	VD	Friction: A Joshua Tree Bouldering Tour - (Doco) A collection of 39 boulder problems
	DV	Front Range Freaks - (Doco) A varied film following some of Colorados top climbers.
	VD	Hard Grit - (Doco) British climbing the gritstone edges of the Pennines
	VD	Hard Way To The Top, The - (Doco) Mt Buffalo granite aid climbs, Ozymandias and Lord Gum Tree
	DV	Hard XS - The sequel to 'Hard Grit'
	VD	Harder Than Everest - (Doco) Aussies and Americans tag the 2nd ascent of Gasherbrum IV
	VD	High Life, The - (Doco) Showcase of high, difficult bouldering.
	VD	http.bloc - (Doco) Hardcore Anglo-French bouldering video. Fontainebleau and the Peak District.
	VD	Inertia - (Doco) See Chris Sharma, Joe Brooks, Dave Struthers, etc cranking hard
	VD	Inertia 2: Focus - (Doco) The best climbers & hardest routes in the world
	DV	INSTANTE - Instante is a new concept in mountain films. The perfect mix between documentary and fiction in one work, on one theme that speaks to us all: The act of playing
	DV	King Lines - aka The Sharma Show
	VD	Low Gravity - B grade 90's Australian Climbing Video
	VD	Masters Of Stone - (Doco) Climbing in Smith Rock, Yosemite Valley, American Fork, Tuolumne Meadows
	VD	Masters Of Stone 2 - Hard Rock - (Doco) Hard climbing in Yosemite, The Needles, Mt. Charleston, Joshua Tree, Rifle, Lake Tahoe, and Baja, Mexico
	VD	Masters Of Stone 3 - Third Stone From The Sun - (Doco) 5.14c redpoints in France, boulder at Hueco Tanks and Yosemite
	VD	Masters of Stone 4 - Pure Force - (Doco) Climbing & BASE jumping in Yosemite, California, Spain, etc.
	VD	Masters Of Stone 5 - (Doco) Speed-Soloing, High-Ball Bouldering, Female Freesoloing, Blind Crack Climbing, Slacklining, Rope Freefalling
	DV	Meru - The first ascent of the Sharks Fin, Meru Central, India
	VD	One Summer - (Doco) Ben Moon Bouldering in the UK's Peak District
	VD	Painted Spider - (Doco) Rock climbing in the 90s. Long free routes, sport climbing, competetion climbing, bouldering, soloing.
	DV	Pilgrimage - (Doco) A bouldering pilgrimage to the sacred village of Hampi, in the south of India
	DV	Pitch Sorbet - (Doco) Short film on Ice Climbing from Petzl Charlet Moser
	VD	Professionals, The - (Doco) Francois Legrand and Yuji Hirayama on the hardest US routes
	BK	Punk in the Gym - Andy Pollitt's Biography
	VD	Rampage - (Doco) Follow Sharma, Carrion and friends on an outrageous two month bouldering spree .
	VD	Real Thing, The - (Doco) Bouldering with Ben Moon and Jerry Moffatt in England and Fontainebleau
	DV	Red River Ruckus - Sport climbing in Red River Gorge, Kentucky, USA
	DV	Return 2 Sender - Climbing, slacklining, base-jumping, big wall flick
	BK	Revelations - Autobiiography of Jerry Moffat
	BK	Rock Climbing In Australia - Stunning coffee table book of photographs
	BK	Rock Prints - A collection of rock climbing photographs
	VD	Rock: The Soul of the Climbing Experience - (Doco) Rock & Ice climbing and bouldering in America, Italy, France, Germany and Slovakia
	BK	Rocks Around the world - Stefan Glowacz - world tour with photographer in tow
	DV	Salathe - Blood Sweat And Bagels - (Doco) Free Climbing The Salathe Wall on El Capital, Yosemite.
	VD	Shut Up And Climb - (Doco) Bouldering in Southern California, Ibex, Joe's Valley, Hueco Tanks, and Fontainebleau
	VD	Solo - (Doco) Shows what climbing was like in the old days.
	VD	Solutions - (Doco) Bouldering in Northern Colorado
	DV	Soul Cal: A Cali Bouldering Road Trip -
	DV	Southern Faces - All you need to know about rock climbing in the South Island of NZ. Featuring quality climbing footage, quirky animations, loads of local knowledge and a kick-ass kiwi soundtrack.
	VD	Southern Slopers - (Doco) Top boulderers in northern Alabama
	DV	Splinter - A (very) short film focusing on the famous home training board of Malcolm Smith
	DV	Splitter - An Apline Rockumentary. Shipton Spire, Lotus Flower Tower, Cerro Poincenot.
	DV	Stick It - (Doco) Shows the UK bouldering scene.
	VD	Stone Love - (Doco) Five of Britain's strongest bouldering in Switzerland
	VD	Stone Monkey - The original cult-classic featuring 'The Leaping Boy' Johnny Dawes and some of his gritstone and slate scarefests
	BK	Summit 8000 - A thrilling memoir of the spectacular high - altitude mountaineering achievements of Andrew Lock: the only Australian to have summited all fourteen 8000 - metre peaks in the world, including Mount Everest - twice.
	DV	The Locals - Bouldering Across Europe
	DV	The Long Hope - First Free Ascent Documentary
	DV	The Road - (Doco) From the makers of Frequent Flyers comes a whole new trip showcasing some of the new, old and just discovered areas that are shaping bouldering today. bishop, triassic, hueco, soill, and new england gunks
	BK	The Will To Climb - Everest the boy who dared
	DV	Touching the Void - The movie of the popular book by Joe Simpson.
	BK	Two Shadows - The inspirational story of one mans triumph over adversity - This captivating autobiography reveals the remarkable story behind a man known for his passion for mountain climbing, his irrepressible and often unique sense of humor, and his fascinating tales of adventure and mis-adventure.
	VD	Uncommon Ground - (Doco) Trad, sport and bouldering in the northeastern United States.
	VD	Under the Sky, Above the Sea - (Doco) Deep Water Soloing on Britain's South Coast
	DV	Vertical Frontier - A history of the Art, Sport, and Philosophy of Rock Climbing in Yosemite.
	BK	Virgin on Insanity - Coming of age on the world's toughest mountains
	BK	Voices From the Summit - The World's Greatest Mountaineers on the Future of Climbing
	DV	Yosemite: Ascending Rhythm - (Doco) Climbers in Yosemite
	BK	Younghusband (The Last Great Imperial Adventurer) - Biography of Early Himalayan Explorer

Instructional    

	BK	Advanced Rock Climbing - How to Rock Climb Series
	BK	Advanced Rockcraft - Informative book covering 'leading' & 'old fashioned hard aid'
	VD	Anchoring & Setting Up Top Ropes - (Doco) Instructions for top roping
	VD	Art Of Leading, The - (Doco) Describes strategies for safe and successful multi-pitch rock climbing
	DV	Ascend Mt. Rainier - (Doco) Interactive climbing guide. Allows one to learn the different routes.
	BK	Basic Rockcraft - Royal Robbins instructional manual
	BK	Big Wall Climbing: Elite Technique. - One of a series of eight Mountaineers Outdoor Expert books
	BK	Big Walls - How to Rock Climb Series
	BK	Climb On - Skills for more efficient climbing - How to rockclimb series.
	BK	Climber's Handbook, The - Practical handbook for all types of climbing. Includes 300 illustrations of techniques, equipment, and locations.
	BK	Climbing Anchors - How to Rock Climb Series
	BK	Climbing Big Walls - Basic to advanced instruction for climbing Big Walls.
	BK	Downward Bound: A Mad! Guide to Rock Climbing - Introduction to climbing, history, and lots of humour.
	BK	Espresso Lessons - Mental Training
	BK	Extreme Alpinism - Physical, psychological, and technical aspects of alpine climbing at the bleeding edge
	BK	Flash Training - How to Rock Climb Series
	VD	Hazards of Avalanche & Crevasse - (Doco) UK guides step us through beginers practices
	BK	How to Climb 5.12 - How to Rock Climb Series
	BK	How to Rock Climb! - How to Rock Climb Series
	BK	I Hate to Train Performance Guide for Climbers, The - How to Rock Climb Series
	DV	Masterclass 1 & 2 - Instructional Vid from one of the Best coaches in the UK
	BK	More Climbing Anchors - How to Rock Climb Series
	BK	Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills - The Bible for climbers and mountaineers
	VD	Moving Over Plastic - (Doco) Improve climbing performance through indoor climbing
	BK	Performance Rock Climbing - Training for climbing
	DV	Pro Tips Volume One - Professional climbers share their tricks of the trade.
	VD	Rock Climbing Skills: The Basics & Beyond - (Doco) Basic equipment and techniques, hand, foot and body control, etc.
	BK	Rock Warriors Way, The - Mental Training for Climbers
	BK	Rockclimbing: Getting Started - Instructional book for beginner climbers.
	BK	Self-Rescue - How to Rock Climb Series
	BK	Skills for More Efficient Climbing - Techniques, illustrations, and inspirational stories for moving faster up the rock
	BK	Sport Climbing - How to Rock Climb Series
	BK	Training for Climbing - The definitive guide to improving your climbing performance.
	BK	World Mountains - The worlds great mountains by the world's great mountaineers

Guides (Australian)    

	BK	Climb Tasmania - Selected Best Climbs - Guidebook
	BK	Memory of a Journey. Rock Climbing on Ben Lomond - Read the title
	BK	Sydney Bouldering - The essential guide to bouldering in Sydney
	BK	VCC 2006 Mt Buffalo Rock Climbing Guide - Awesome Granite in an alpine environment!

Guides (International)