No-one writes about mountaineering and its own attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this assortment of his finest essays and confirming, Krakauer writes of mountains from your memorable perspective of 1 who has himself battled with single madness to scale Alaska’s notorious Devils Thumb.

In Pakistan, the fearsome K2 kills thirteen from the world’s most experienced mountain climbers in a single horrific summer season. In Valdez, Alaska, two men scale a frozen waterfall over a about Eiger Dreams four-hundred-foot drop. In France, a hip worldwide crowd of rock and roll climbers, bungee jumpers, and paragliders figure out new ways to risk their lives within the towering peaks of Mont Blanc. Why do they are doing it? How do they actually it? Within this incredible publication, Krakauer presents an unusual fraternity of daredevils, sportsmen, and misfits stretching the limits of the possible.

From your paranoid confines of a snowbound tent, towards the thunderous, suffocating terror of the white-out on Mount McKinley, Eiger Dreams spins tales of driven lives, sudden deaths, and incredible victories. That is a stirring, vibrant book about one of the most compelling and dangerous of all human pursuits.