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 enlarge | Authors: Greg Child, Jon Krakauer, Stephen Venables, Art Davidson
Publisher: Adrenaline Audiobooks
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 333701
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio Cassette
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 4
Pages: 6
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 4.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 1885408331
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.522
EAN: 9781885408334
ASIN: 1885408331
Publication Date: September 15, 1999
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 Oustanding collection January 10, 2000
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Clint Willis has created a fascinating series of books with Epic, Climb, High, Wild, Ice, Rough Water, and The War. Each of these volumes presents the best literature about their respective subjects in a powerful cohesive manner. These books are a quick read, but intricate and spellbinding. I have given many of them to friends and family as gifts.
Excellent; one of the best on my bookshelf. May 14, 1999
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Mountaineers will appreciate this one. Great job Clint
A book rich in excitement, triumph, and failure. January 30, 1999
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book contains the greatest short stories about climbing that I have ever read. Each story is unique and as entertaining as the other.
 Where's the return to base camp? December 23, 1998
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this book, and read it in one day, pouring through the various chapters and one tragedy to the next. My only complaint is that many of the chapters were excerpts from other books, and the stories sometimes felt unfinished. Those excerpts would cover the hit (or near miss) of the summit, then cover some sort of trial to the participating climbers. The climbers may or may not survive the trial, and then that would be the end of it. I actually craved a little bit more of the post-expedition soul-searching.
 Damn! My Toes is Froze! November 5, 1998
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
Like everybody else, I read "Into Thin Air" and bought more mountaineering books, this being one. Luckily, climbers tend to be a pretty literary lot, because the basic theme of all these books is : Damn, we're out of food/its cold/ I can't feel my feet/hands/nose/my brain is swelling up/I lost my way/tent/sleeping bag/gloves/I almost (or you DID) fall off this cliff. All this is followed by the endless anticlimax of the summit if reached and, worst of all, endless navel contemplation about the meaning of it all. I don't know why this stuff is so compelling, but there it is. I read this book in four sittings when I had a lot of more important stuff to do. Then I went out and bought Everest: The West Ridge by Tom Hornbein. And I live in Florida , have never been higher than 5,000 feet and have never climbed anything higher than the roof of my house. Go figure. I will say that these mountaineering books have a significant collateral benefit - they scare the hell out of the wife.
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