01857nam a22002417a 4500 3858 FISKH 20240517154237.0 240517b cb ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d FISK eng FISK FISK GV200.K73 796.522 Krakauer Jon 1954- Eiger dreams / Jon Krakauer New York : Anchor Books, 1997 186 pages : 21 cm M No 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. estimates, Lexile Jon Krakauer ddc BK 0 3858 3858 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC 002 002 SNS 2024-05-17 0 KRA GV200.K73 796.522 2024-0638 2024-05-17 15:45:12 1 2024-05-17 BK