Eiger Dreams
Author(s): Krakauer, Jon
Tramping & Mountaineering | Secondhand
No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer.
In this collection of thirteen of his finest essays and reporting - including the essay, "Is Yosemite Going To The Dogs" - Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska's notorious Devils Thumb.
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.
VG.
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- : UNKNOWN
- : 0.167829
- : 01 May 1997
- : .44 Inches X 5.13 Inches X 8 Inches
- : United States of America
- : books
Special Fields
- : Krakauer, Jon
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 796.522
- : 208