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Eiger Dreams
- Ventures Among Men and Mountains
- Narrateur(s): Philip Franklin
- Durée: 8 h et 42 min
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No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska's notorious Devils Thumb.
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From the paranoid confines of a snowbound tent to the thunderous, suffocating terror of a whiteout on Mount McKinley, Eiger Dreams spins tales of driven lives, sudden deaths, and incredible victories. This is a stirring, vivid book about one of the most compelling and dangerous of all human pursuits.
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- Konrad J. Komuniecki
- 2018-12-17
Great collection of stories
I liked this particular collection of stories from the authors earlier exploits. It’s told in an often funny and self deprecating humour but does not loose the adventure and vivid imagination that is the life and times of serious climbing.
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