Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
by Jon Krakauer
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Author: Jon KrakauerBrand: Liberty Mountain
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-05-19
ISBN: 0385488181
Number of pages: 186
Publisher: Anchor
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Book Review: thrilling collection of great adventure stories
Summary: 5 Stars
Eiger dreams is a quality collection of short stories that covers many of Jon's personal climbing adventures and a few other character profiles. I particularly enjoyed the one about the bush pilots in Alaska. This is Jon's first book, and most of the stories have been previously published in Outside Magazine. They are written with a great style and provide the reader with hours of armchair adventure. Dancing on the Edge of an Endangered Planet
Summary of Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, the bestselling author of Into the Wild writes of mountains and the daredevils, athletes, and misfits who climb them, from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska's Devil Thumb and experienced the ravages of a storm atop Mt.No matter what the actual temperature may be, several pages into Eiger Dreams you will begin to shiver. Halfway through you will acquire a new appreciation for your fingers, toes, and the fact that you still have a nose. And by the end of this collection, you'll define some commonly used phrases in an entirely different way. The understated "catch some air" and the whimsical "log some flight time" are climbers' euphemisms for falling, while "crater" refers to what happens when you log some flight time all the way to the ground. "Summiting," the term for reaching the top of a mountain, seems almost colorless in comparison. The various heroes, risk-takers, incompetents, and individualists Krakauer captures are more than colorful, whether they summit or not. The author is more interested in exploring the addiction of risk--the intensity of effort--than mere triumph. There's the mythical minimalist climber, John Gill, whose fame "rests entirely on assents less than thirty feet high," and the Burgess brothers--freewheeling, free-floating English twins who seem to make all the right decisions when it counts, and hence most often fail to reach the top. Of course, they are alive. Over these and other talented climbers hangs a malignant, endlessly creative nature--its foehn winds can make people crazy and its avalanches do far worse. Eiger Dreams is an adrenaline fest for the weary, an overdue examination of a stylish, brave subculture. As one of the heroes Krakauer outlines says of his occupation, "It's sort of like having fun, only different."
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