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 enlarge | Author: Jon Krakauer
Publisher: Anchor
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  61 reviews
Sales Rank: 6935
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 186
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0385488181
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.522
EAN: 9780385488181
ASIN: 0385488181
Publication Date: May 19, 1997
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 You have to be a little bit crazy.......... November 16, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
....to want to do what these mountaineers live for. If avoiding avalanches, brushing off frostbite, entertaining yourself for days in a tent while you wait out a storm, climbing on ridges with hurricane force winds, looking down three thousand foot cliffs and staring death in the eyes and smiling sounds fun to you, then mountaineering may just be your cup of tea! Regardless, if you enjoy reading about hardcore adventurers, then this book is definately your cup of tea. The stories are very entertaining and suspensful at times. I particularly enjoyed Krakauer's portrayal of mountaineering culture- Many of these adrenaline rush junkies have eccentric personalities stemming from their own audacity. Anyone who enjoys outdoor adventure, will enjoy reading the stories in this book.
Every mountanier should read it! August 29, 2005
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
A very good book about the passion of mountanering! By reading this book you achieve a very good undestanding of the passion for mountains and climbing. I bought this book in the sequence of having reed "In to Thin Air" from the same author and I was not disapointed after being delighted with the previous book.
Every mountanier should read it. Very good book!
 Some decent stories well told August 26, 2005
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a nice collection of stories decently told. While I enjoyed the book, the chapters (stories) had no unifying themes or characters, resulting in little attachment or sense of being there. By comparison, Touching the Void or Hermann Buhl: Climbing Without Compromise were both far more gripping.
Another Great Piece by Jon Krakauer January 6, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Along with Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild" and "Into Thin Air," "Eiger Dreams" is yet another masterpiece of mountaineering histories. In "Eiger Dreams," Krakauer describes 12 different tales of man's relations and interactions with the awesome power of massive mountains and cliffs like the Devil's Thumb and K2. In many of the chapters, Krakauer makes the reader shiver with the thought what the mountaineers are daring. Multiple times in the book, I glanced down to the floor and imagined it dropping hundreds, or even thousands of feet below me. In the chapter "Gill," I closed my eyes and tried to think of what it would feel like to be holding my entire body weight on my finger tips too far above the ground to survive a drop. This chapter intrigued me quite a bit more than some of the others. It astonished me how John Gill would allow his life to dangle on the thread of a string from a cliff. In one section, it discussed something called "squeeze holds." These are Holds that a climber uses to pull him or herself up with only by squeezing. I could not visualize what it may be to have such an experience. In most books that I read, some aspect of it irritates me one way or another, but this book did nothing of the sort. From cover to cover, the writing style was excellent and never caused me to think ill of his choices as an author. I rated this book with the golden 5 star prize for displaying an enthralling tale of laughter and suspense. Krakauer uses his writing talents in such a way that being the reader, I felt compelled to not only have a new found respect for the mountains and the elements, but to envision what these extraordinary men have done.
Eiger Dreams January 6, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Jon Krakauer beautifully explains the human struggle to defy gravity and conquer mountains using examples and comparisons that don't take a mountain man to understand. Eiger Dreams is a collection of twelve short essays about mountaineering, canyoneering, climbing, and the people who do it.
I give this book a rating of five stars, because it is wonderfully written and gives the reader the feeling that they are actually walking in the boots of these world renowned athletes. It sends chills down my spine just reading about the precarious positions these people put themselves in, like climbing up a steep ice face, only clinging to the earth because of two metal picks stuck a half inch into a six inch layer of ice. Because this book is a collection of short stories, the reading is quite fast and is never tedious.
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