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Binding: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.5220954914
EAN: 9781885408358
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN: 1885408358
Label: Adrenaline Audiobooks
Manufacturer: Adrenaline Audiobooks
Number Of Items: 4
Number Of Pages: 6
Publication Date: December 01, 1999
Publisher: Adrenaline Audiobooks
Sales Rank: 1463019
Studio: Adrenaline Audiobooks
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Rating:  - An Essential Book
This is a classic. Well told stories of the difficulties encountered climbing Everest and K2. The machismo seems to have been left far below the altitudes these climbers struggle at. These true accounts finally wind together around common threads of stress, inability to think and act rationally under extreme conditions. Minor decisions and misunderstandings result in triumph or failure.
A great book.
David Roberts has established himself as an essential source for understanding why ... Read More
Rating:  - Mildly Interesting but a Tad Repetitious
This attractively presented volume is a compilation of excerpts from various accounts of attempts, successful or otherwise, to climb Everest and K2. These accounts are for the most part from different English and American expeditions from the 1930s onwards, but include for variation the first-person narrative of travels through Tibet toward the fatal mountains by the widow of a fallen climber.
Some expeditions take a massive army-style assault on the peaks, using complicated supply chains, ... Read More
Rating: - the interior climb
I very much enjoyed and highly recommend this book. I've read many of the books from which these chapters are selected, yet there was much fresh material for me. The editing was so masterful that even though the chapters are from different writers, mountains, and times, they flowed together seamlessly
High does for climbing what the movie The Thin Red Line did for combat: It explores not the details of the event, but the inner thoughts of the participants. You read what it feels like to have ... Read More
Rating:  - Don't Bother with this one!
Like all of you who read this review,you're Everest junkies who probably won't even get near this mountain, but are hooked on all books about it.
High; Stories of survival from Everest and K2 is NOT what you're looking for. This book is nothing but one-chapter excerpts from other books. It's like walking into a movie half way through: You have no idea what's going on. Also, there are no maps of either Everest or K2, so if writers of these chapters (and some of them are BORING writers!) describe trouble ... Read More
Rating: - damn good read
This is the first book i've read that was a collection of excerpts from other books. It is a real page turner and you will work through it quickly, desperately wanting more non-fiction adventure reading to follow. Well anyways, just buy it. you won't be disappointed.
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