• Summitpost : A great free site with excellent climbing information. It has become very popular by creating a community for climbers.
• 14ers.com: The best site for the Colorado 14ers. Excellent route descriptions and trip reports posted in a timely manner. Free site run by Coloradoan Bill Middlebrook
• UKClimbing: UK based site for European climbers
• MountainProject: A nice site for rock climbers

General Climbing

• Mountain.RU: A Russian originated site that creates some original content. I like them for their coverage of what the tough Russian climbing community is up to.
• RussianClimb: Another Russian site. These guys are crazy strong!
• ExplorersWeb: Wide coverage from the Poles to Everest.
• EverestNews: A site that mostly covers their favorite companies each season. It is hard to navigate given the mix of advertising and news stories.

Mountain Health and Training

• Body Results: Personal training via video, in person or over the web
• American Alpine Institute: some basic training suggestions by Coley Gentzel
• Sports Coach: Everything you ever wanted to know about V02 max
• Institute for Altitude medicine: Legendary Dr. Peter Hacket's site from Telluride on altitude issues. Excellent information - a must read.
• High Altitude Medicine Guide : Impressive breadth of information on high-altitude sicknesses including AMS, HAPE and HACE. A must read before any big cimb.
• Alpine Ascents International: An excellent training program for climbing Denali.

Blogs

• The Adventure Blog: An excellent, must read, daily blog for a variety of adventures
• The Gear Junkie: A well written daily review of the latest in gear.
• Rock Climber Girl: From the Pacific Northwest, climbing from another point of view

Climbing Reference Sites

• Mount Everest The British Story: History, facts and summiteers list relating to the British and Mount Everest
• Discovery Channel/Everest: The site of television's Discovery Channel, has one of the best multimedia coverage for Everest anywhere on the web.
• National Geographic/Everest: A potpourri of Everest information. Nice for research.
• 8000ers.com: A very nice site devoted to the 8000m mountain. You can download tables with statistics covering summits, deaths, Sherpas and more

Colorado 14ers

• Mt. Princeton: Photos of Mt. Princeton, Colorado. One of the 14ers.
• Andy Leach: Photos, trip reports and good info from Coloradoan Andy Leach
• Chris Davenport: Skied all the Colorado 14ers

8000m Mountains, 7 Summits

• Mount Everest The British Story: History, facts and summiteers list relating to the British and Mount Everest
• Broad Peak: First Ascent of Broad Peak 8047m by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl on June 9, 1957
• Jordan Romero: A 12 year-old trying to do all 7. He has 5 already!
• Northern Latitude - Phil Lee : Site with good Alaska information including Denali and Foraker summits
• Cancer Climber: Sean Swarner's 7 summits site.
• Nicki Branch: A wonderful woman on a 7 Summit journey.
• The Rest of Everest: A unique look at climbing Everest North. Jon has produced a series of podcasts with high quality video and casual narration of the expedition.

General Personal Sites

• Hiking for Health: Personal site of Cy Kaicener with an emphasis on the Palm Spring Skyline Trail and a great "Top 10" list of why hiking is good for you!
• Guillaume Dargaud: A unique site with an "attitude" Nice climbing images of Guillaume's adventures
• Mountain Girl: Well written articles and trip reports from her climbs in Canada and elsewhere
• Paul Elwell: A well designed out site of Paul's personal climbs, impressive bike rides and nice ice climbing in MIchigan
• Climbingjunky: Climbing and bouldering in the Pacific Northwest of the US.
• MyEverest: This is platform for climbers without their own sites. A great resource for many climbers.
• David Tait: Everest Climber with excellent dispatches
• Manny Pizzaro: Everest 2007 dispatches
• EightSummits: Bill Burke's site for his Everest climbs
• TA Loeffler: A great woman from Newfoundland chronicling all her adventures
• Never Stop Climbing: Site of John and Jermaine, out of shape, on a journey to get in shape through climbing. Good luck guys!
• Work Out and Loose Weight: The blog on everydayhealth.com of New Yorker, Bryan Harris, as he worked to climb Mt. Rainier.
• Elliot Perce: Denali is up first then who knows!

Photography

• Jimmy Chin: Climber and Photographer. Some amazing stuff
• Quang-Tuan Luong : Beautiful pictures of mountains and landscapes plus more
• Jake Norton: Climber Guide and Photographer

Professional Climbers

• Ed Viesturs: The most famous American climber. He has made a career of climbing all the 8,000m mountains without supplemental oxygen.
• Andrew Locke: Australian climber with 13 of the 14 highest mountains already climbed
• Annabelle Bond: umm, well just take a look... She has climbed all 7 summits and champions a great cause in cancer research
• Araceli Segarra:100% proof that climbing is a unisex sport! Araceli does it all exceptionally well.

Magazines

• Climbing : THE climbing magazine.
• Rock & Ice :Pure climbing with great pictures
• Outside : General outdoor magazine

• No Shortcuts to the Top: Ed Viesturs's book about his summits of the 14 8000m mountains without supplemental O's. A very good read.
• Three Cups of Tea: Greg Mortenson tells his story of educating kids in remote Pakistan. A very inspiring tale.
• All Fourteen 8,000ers - Reinhold Messner: One of the greatest Alpinists, this account of his conquest of all the 8,000+ meter mountains without bottled oxygen makes it a perfect coffee table book. Beautiful pictures
• Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer: The book that brought notoriety to Everest climbs based on 12 deaths in1996.
• The Climb - Anatoli Boukreev: The other side of the '96 disaster as told by the Russian Guide. I think his story is better.
• High Exposure - David Breashears: The story of a great climber's life including his Imax film about Everest.
• The Other Side of Everest - Matt Dickinson: Another Everest '96 book but told from the North Face.
• Hall & Ball: Kiwi Mountaineers from Mount Cook to Everest -Colin Monteath :An excellent account of the history of two pioneers in high-altitude guiding. Nice pictures. Their company, Adventure Consultants, continues today.
• The Snow Leopard - Peter Matthiessen: The classic about Nepal, Sherpas and all the wonderment of the area.
• The Mountaineers Book- A publisher dedicated to books about mountains. A great site with loads of info. Check out the Reading room for previews.
• Climbing the World's 14 Highest Mountains - Richard Sales and John Cleare: Another coffee table book. Excellent climbing accounts with great pictures
• Everest The History of the Himalayan Giant - Roberto Mantovani: Magnificent pictures make this a must own book for Everest lovers. The detailed history of attempts on the mountain make for great reading but the pictures are stunning.
• K2 - The Savage Mountain- Jim Wickwire tells the incredible story of the 1953 American expedition to K2
• The Last Step Rick Ridgeway: The story of the first successful American climb of K2 in 1978.

• Mountain Hardware : Excellent gear. Great site with excellent product information and nice links.
• Arc'teryx : Incredible gear. I used one of their lightweight jackets on Everest and some bibs on Ama Dablam and found the quality incredible. Their Web site covers their complete line and is easy to navigate.
• North Face : One of the "mothers" of the sport. Basic PR site but good background information on their sponsored climbers.
• Brunton: A niche supplier of gear which has been customized for high altitude and tough use. Interesting line-up. Check out their solar power gear.
• Black Diamond: Premier supplier of climbing gear. Solid, high-quality 'biners, ascenders, harnesses, etc.
• Inka: The best (and most expensive) writing pen you will ever buy to keep in your pack!
• Animated Knots: a nice site with cool animation showing how to tie knots.
• The Lightweight Backpacker: around since 1996, it is an excellent resources for all things hiking and camping. While not focused around alpine mountaineering, I found a lot of the information very useful.

Shopping

• REI : Good source for comparing prices and buying on-line. I have a local store that I use all the time - like the rebates!
• Mountain Gear: A complete source for buying all climbing gear. I have used them many times over the years with good success.
• Moose Jaw: A nice site to buy climbing gear at good prices, they run 20% discounts all the time. They have outstanding customer service.
• Altrec: A general purpose outdoor shopping site (pronounced "all trek"). I have never ordered anything from them but they seem to have links on every climbing site. A quick check showed some good prices. I will probably always check them for future purchases. I would appreciate hearing about any experiences with them.
• Spadout: a shopping site that lets you follow an item's price and snag it when it gets low enough.
• Backcountry: Great prices with a sense of humor. Steep and Cheap is a companion service.
• Steep and Cheap: a must have for your PC. A slider window appears when a new deal is available. I am always buying something through these guys - can't pass up a good deal!

Misc

• American Alpine Club : The site for America's premier climbing organization.
• Himalaya Rescue Association : More information on climbing in the Himalayas and precautions to take with altitude.
• United States Mountain Guides Association : A professional association of exam certified climbing guides. The site has lists of approved Guides with links to other associations around the world.
• The Access Fund : A non-profit US organization dedicated to keeping climbing areas open and to conserving the climbing environment.