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The Mammoth Book of Adventures on the Edge

    The Mammoth Book of Adventures on the Edge

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    You'll be transported into the oxygen-scarce zones of extreme mountaineering while reading 32 accounts of some of the world's greatest climbs in The Mammoth Book of Adventures on the Edge

    • Edited by: Jon E. Lewis
    • Softcover; 494 pages
    • Running Press Book Publishers; copyright 2009
    • These 32 first-hand accounts on the peaks and big walls of 4 continents span an arc in time from the golden Victorian age to the present

      Among the accounts included are:
    • Walter Bonatti: The tragic attempt on the Central Pillar of Freney on Mont Blanc
    • Maurice Herzog: Hiis unstoppable ascent of Annapurna at the cost of his frost-bitten fingers
    • George Leigh Mallory: Surviving an avalanche on the 1922 Everest expedition
    • Rene Desmaison: His epic account of 14 days stuck on the Grandes Jorasses in winter
    • Jon Krakauer: Recalling his solo ascent of the Devil's Thumb in Alaska

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