Long established as a standard reference work worldwide, this is a thorough bibliography of all mountaineering books that are of practical use to climbers or for reading pleasure or historical interest. Documenting more than 2000 books of mountaineering literature, it also includes nearly 900 climber's guidebooks, a sampling of more than 400 works of mountaineering fiction, plus journals and bibliographies.
This remains the best bibliography of English language mountaineering books, indispensable to collectors and those interested in the subject. The main section covers mountaineering non-fiction. Other sections are Guidebooks, Fiction, Journals & Periodicals, Bibliographies, Addenda. There is a title index to all of the books and a general index grouping entries into ranges, countries, subjects, etc.
[Comment on the Neate 1978 1st edition, by Michael Chessler, Augst 2025)
Despite my enthusiasm for the Neate bibliography, which came out in 1978, I was always annoyed that he included very few American editions, while we saw very few UK editions when a book had an American edition. This second edition has corrected this through 1986.]
