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Binding: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.522
EAN: 9781885408334
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN: 1885408331
Label: Adrenaline Audiobooks
Manufacturer: Adrenaline Audiobooks
Number Of Items: 4
Number Of Pages: 6
Publication Date: September 15, 1999
Publisher: Adrenaline Audiobooks
Sales Rank: 1159895
Studio: Adrenaline Audiobooks
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Rating:  - A sampler box of mountain climbing stories
This book is like a sampler box of climbing stories. It's not a bad collection, but in the end it's a rather unsatisfying meal.
The problem is that most of the stories are excerpts from books, making it hard for readers to fully understand the context of the events they're reading about. It's as if you're suddenly thrown into a dramatic scene on the edge of a mountain without knowing who your climbing partners are or how you got there. Also, several of the stories leave the reader hanging ... Read More
Rating:  - Epic, delivers the goods
This book is essentially a compilation of short stories from books written by world class mountaineers. Anyone who is well read in this genre will immediately recognize these short stories from the books they were taken. The stories are exceptionally well written and edited. Some are epic survival tales and others document the never ending string of tragedies that befall many mountaineering expeditions. The format works well even though the stories are in no particular time sequence. I highly recommend ... Read More
Rating:  - Good Collection - Worth Reading
This book is a collection of short stories about some very very very dificult climbings in the most dangerous places(mountains) under the most terrible conditions.
Among the stories are some classics like: The West Ridge-Everest(1.st ascent - Hornbein & Unsoeld); Annapurna(1.st ascent - Herzog version); k2 The Savage Mountain(The Schoening belay - by Bates and Houston); McKinley winter's ascent(by Art Davidson).
The book provides a good taste of the dificulties a climber must surpass in order ... Read More
Rating: - Good for the armchair adventurer
Willis' compilations include well-chosen "high points" from selected mountaineering books. Serious climbing-book readers will already have most of the books, but those who just want to get to the solo bivouac scene in which our hero freezes all his toes after losing his partners to an avalanche will find Epic a good buy.
Rating: - HIGH TENSION
This audio book took me six hours down the road to Mobile without pain. It was so riveting that time disappeared. These are stories of men's struggles to climb the highest mountains in the world, complicated by sheer ice, blinding storms, lack of oxygen, and extreme cold. These authors are the actual climbers so that we are able to understand them as their emotions rollercoaster from elation at the start to deepest despair as they contemplate not only not being able to summit but their very possible ... Read More
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