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No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant hardships and victories more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer | |
In this first collection of his finest work from such magazines as Outside and Smithsonian | |
Krakauer explores the subject from the unique and memorable perspective of one who has battled peaks like K2, Denali, Everest, and, of course, the Eiger | |
Always with a keen eye, an open heart, and a hunger for the ultimate experience, he gives us unerring portraits of the mountaineering experience | |
Yet Eiger Dreams is more about people than about rock and ice - people with that odd, sometimes maniacal obsession with mountain summits that sets them apart from other men and women | |
Here we meet Adrian the Romanian, determined to be the first of his countrymen to solo Denali | |
John Gill, climber not of great mountains but of house-sized boulders so difficult to surmount that even demanding alpine climbs seem easy; and many more | |
In the most intimate piece, "The Devils Thumb," Krakauer recounts his own near-fatal, ultimately triumphant struggle with solo-madness as he scales Alaska's Devils Thumb | |
Eiger Dreams is stirring, vivid writing about one of the most compelling and dangerous of all human pursuits | |
(6 1/4 X 9 1/4. 202 pages) | |
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