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Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks (The Adrenaline Series)
By Krakauer, Jon & Child, Greg & Venables, Stephan & Davidson, Art & Roberts, David & Lansing, Alfred & Eric Conger & Adamson, Rick & Malcolm, Graeme & Alan Sklar & Clint Willis & Venables, Stephen
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- 978-1-88540-833-4
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- Adrenaline Audiobooks
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Reviewed on April 1, 2000
The hypnotic appeal of danger, hardship, extreme elements, and facing death are fascinating to many readers, as witnessed by the popularity of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air. Both books related the drama surrounding nature at its most violent and dangerous. Epic is a compilation of 15 memorable expeditions to world-famous peaks. Included here are Jon Krakauer's solo ascent of Devil's Thumb in Alaska, a winter ascent of Mt. McKinley, and Alfred Lansing's narrative of the 1915 Shackleton expedition. The listener experiences cold, hunger, and fright at the hands of writers who are actual climbers. Their words are powerful because they ring with authenticity. The hardships these climbers endured go almost beyond human comprehension. In one story, a man is stricken with blood clots in his legs; his team members ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
