The Mammoth Book of Climbing Adventures
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You'll be transported into the oxygen-scarce zones of extreme mountaineering while reading these accounts of some of the world's greatest climbs.
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- Softcover; 497 pages
- Carroll and Graf Publishers; copyright 2001
- These 25 first-hand accounts on the peaks and "big walls" of four continents span an arc in time from the golden Victorian age to present
- This volume explores the furthest reaches of human daring and endurance
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Among the accounts included are:
- Walter Bonatti - the tragic attempt on the Central Pillar of Freney on Mont Blanc, which left four of his seven-man party dead in the snow
- Maurice Herzog - his 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
- Hermann Buhl - the first tentless bivouac at 8000m
- Robert Bates - the classic account of the ill-fated, 1953 American expedition to K2
- Jon Krakauer - recalling his 1977 solo ascent of the Devil's Thumb in Alaska
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