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High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2 (The Adrenaline Series)
by Jon Krakauer, Matt Dickinson, Chris Bonington, Ed Webster, Brummie Stokes, David Roberts (Narrator: Eric Conger) (Editor: Clint Willis) (Narrator: Graeme Malcolm) (Narrator: Alan Sklar) (Narrator: George Guidall) (Narrator: Simon Prebble)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Adrenaline Audiobooks (1999-12-01)
ISBN: 1885408358
EAN: 9781885408358
UPC: 762458302647
Dewy Decimal #: 796.5220954914
Audio Cassette
Edition: Unabridged
SKU: 0060251
Condition: New
Comments: Unabridged. Brand New from publisher, still in original shrinkwrap. Four tapes, six hours.
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Product Description
Everest and K2 are two of the most feared and respected peaks in the world. High offers, in vivid accounts, why both are among the world's most dangerous places, yet why the world's best climbers can't stay away from them.
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Amazon.com Review
Editor Clint Willis collects some of mountaineering's finest writing in these tales from storied expeditions to grails like Everest and K2. Included are classic accounts of early American attempts on K2, by consensus the most daunting and ruthless peak to summit. Frank Smythe's telling of his 1933 attempt and Charles Houston and Robert Bates's from 1938 typify the wooly-knickered bravado of pre-war climbing. As counterpoint, Willis serves up Galen Rowell's sad and unadorned journal from the tempestuous 1975 failed expedition. But there are other angles as well. Tucked in the middle of High is a gem told by an Everest widow, Maria Coffey, who traveled to the base of the mountain that took her husband and his partner: "I could pick out the ridge where Joe and Pete were last seen. The image blurred, tears were washing down my face and collecting in the jacket collar pulled tightly around my chin." In a collection of writing that soars it is a moving--and grounding--reminder of mountaineering's risks. --Tipton Blish
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