Fiction or Nonfiction. I'm a huge fan of The Terror and The Abominable by Dan Simmons, Into Thin Air by Krakauer, Endurance by Alfred Lansing. Doesn't have to be about climbing or sailing, that's just what I've been reading recently.
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The first crossing of Greenland by nansen,
River of doubt by Millard,
Voyage of the kon tiki
There is a classic coming of age story in two books that finishes with a trek across the Kalahari desert on foot. A story like the wind and A far off place by Van der Post. Van der Post was an environmentalist and egalitarian for his time but the book shows inequality between white people and black people.
The Martian
Gonna assume you’ve read Dune!
The Fifth Season by NK Jemmison is a fun fantasy if you’re into that, incredibly deadly landscape
The Home of the Blizzard. Douglas Mawson’s tale of survival in Antarctica.
If you’re open to fiction at all, The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah fits the description. It was the first and only book I’ve read by her, because they’re all exactly the same, but I really liked this one.
The terrors of ice and darkness
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
A jungle prison set in a post-apocalyptic world near the end of time
I haven’t read it yet but another good choice would be “the Climb” it’s Anatolie Boukareev’s account of the same Everest disaster as John Krakaur’s book
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin is really fucking good. Science fiction that feels almost like nonfiction, about people who live on a planet that is in an ice age. It also involves a glacier trek
A Year of Wonder is entirely set in a quarantined village with the bubonic plague in 1665.
The last grain race- Eric Newby
The Ice Balloon
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver. The protagonist becomes isolated during Arctic winter.
Isola – Allegra Goodman
I Who Have Never Known Men