Hello:) I’d suggest reading a summary of these books on goodreads.

com to see which

one you like best, and then start with that. Also, for books (1), (2), (3) (4), (9), (11) I
suggest going through the index page and reading only those sections that are relevant.

This means read the index and choose the sections that you need, there’s no need to
read the whole book

Here’s a useful link for more mountaineering books:

https://indmount.org/IMF/libraryBooks

Books on the Himalayas

1) The Himalayas: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture by Andrew

J. Hund (Editor), James A. Wren (Editor)

2) Geography of the Himalaya by S.C. Bose (1972) (chapters 2, 3, 4, 9)

https://archive.org/details/GeographyOfTheHimalaya/page/n9/mode/2up

3) The Geography of Jammu and Kahsmir by Majid Hussian

4) Himalaya: A Human History by Ed Douglas
5) Annapurna by Maurice Herzog
6) Fallen Giants by Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver
7) The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest by Ed
Ceasar
8) K-2: No Way Down by Graham Bowley (After an ice shelf collapsed in 2008, sweeping
away their ropes and their best chance of getting down alive, a group of tourists are left
struggling for their lives)
9) Karakoram: Climbing Through the Kashmir Conflict by Steve Swenson
10) Himalaya: Exploring the roof of the world by John Keay
11) This is a useful thesis : https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/144528859.pdf