01783nam a22002057a 45000010005000000030006000050050017000110080041000280400030000690500015000990820013001141000026001272450035001532600039001883000025002275050007002525201275002595210025015347000018015593858FISKH20240517154237.0240517b        cb ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aFISK beng cFISK dFISK   aGV200.K73   a796.522   aKrakauer Jon d1954-   aEiger dreams / cJon Krakauer   aNew York : bAnchor Books, c1997   a186 pages : c21 cm   aM   aNo one writes about mountaineering and its attendant hardships and victories more brilliantly than critically acclaimed author Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest work from such magazines as Outside and Smithsonian, he 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 compelling and colorful characters. 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. 8 aestimates, bLexile   aJon Krakauer