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Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains

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Description for Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains Paperback. This title describes mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships. This book 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. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFHA; WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 10. Weight in Grams: 178.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Pan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
151g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330370004
SKU
V9780330370004
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About Jon Krakauer
Jon Krakauer is a mountaineer and the author of Eiger Dreams, Into the Wild, (which was on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and was made into a film starring Emile Hirsch and Kristen Stewart) Into Thin Air, Iceland, Under the Banner of Heaven and Where Men Win Glory. He is also the editor of the ... Read more

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