No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska's notorious Devils Thumb. In Pakistan, the fearsome K2 kills thirteen of the world's most experienced mountain climbers in one horrific summer. In Valdez, Alaska, two men scale a frozen waterfall over a four-hundred-foot drop. In France, a hip international crowd of rock climbers, bungee jumpers, and paragliders figure out new ways to risk their lives on the towering peaks of Mont Blanc. Why do they do it? How do they do it? In this extraordinary book, Krakauer presents an unusual fraternity of daredevils, athletes, and misfits stretching the limits of the possible. From the paranoid confines of a snowbound tent, to the thunderous, suffocating terror of a white-out on Mount McKinley, Eiger Dreams spins tales of driven lives, sudden deaths, and incredible victories. This is a stirring, vivid book about one of the most compelling and dangerous of all human pursuits.
From The Mountains Edge
Ed Jackson
Harper Collins Publishers Limited
Nanda Devi A Journey To The Last Sanctuary
Hugh Thompson
Weidenfeld & Nicolson/Hachette Book Group
Together On Top Of The World
Phil Ershler,Robin Simons,Susan Ershler
Warner Books/Hachette Book Group
The Totem Pole
Paul Pritchard
Writers Island
Ascent Invention Of Mountain Climbing And Its Practice
Jeremy Bernstein
Touchstone Book/Simon & Schuste Inc
The Mammoth Book Of Eyewitness Everest Marking The 50th Anniversary Of The Ascent Of Everest
None
Carroll & Graf Publishers
K2 The 1939 Tragedy
Andrew J. Kauffman,William L. Putnam
The Mountaineers Books
The Mountain My Time On Everest
Viesturs Ed Roberts David
Ascent A Life Spent Climbing On The Edge
Chris Bonington
Simon & Schuster Inc.
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