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Got any recommendations of some good books that goes in depth of mountaineering/mix climbing/ice climbing beyond whats covered in FOTH?

I'll be glad to hear about them

'New Alpinism' by Steve House & Scott Johnson is a fantastic wealth of information from the training angle... and consequently a good resource for the demands ice climbing and mountineering take on your body, and what degree of specific fitness is expected of the reader to engage these climbing displines.

Somewhat dated now, but I have yet to read a better treatise on the subject; 'Extreme Alpinism; Climbing High, Fast, and Light' by Marc Twight.

I recently ordered a handful of books to continue my reading beyond FOTH. Of them, my favorite and the most useful is ALPINE CLIMBING: TECHNIQUES TO TAKE YOU HIGHER by Mark Houston. It overlaps with FOTH in some ways, but also goes further in others. I think it's a good "next step" book.

Jeff Lowe's "Ice World" is an older book now but still has some good information on ice and mixed climbing, and the history and stories and photos of classic ice climbs Lowe has done are worth the price of the book.

I really like The Mountaineering Handbook, by Craig Connally.

He definitely has a few unique ways of doing things, but his rationale and systems are very thought out.
I think if you read freedom of the hills and are looking for a new perspective and more advanced techniques, this book is very solid.
As in all things climbing, read it with a slightly critical eye, and no one says you have to do everything the way that Craig tells you to.

http://www.amazon.com/Mountaineering-Ha ... g+handbook

Thanks for all your input. I also found this great book about ice climbing - The Art of Ice Climbing (2012) by Jérôme Blanc-Gras and Manu Ibarra - covers about everything from history and technique to risk assessment, weather pattern and conditions

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A book I have been recommending lately is Dead Mountain, by Donnie Eichar. It is a thorough, non-sensational and scientific look at the Dylatov Pass incident in Russia, where a group of skiers traveled cross country to climb a mountain in the Urals, and did not return. It will give you a recovered respect of nature. There are still things in the mountains that are dangerous and beyond the knowledge of the most experienced.