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Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer  
Publisher Comments The extraordinary bestselling true story of a young man's uncompromising pilgrimage that ended in tragedy....
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Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer Publisher Comments In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhikes to Alaska and walks alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body is found by a moose hunter. How Chris McCandless came to die is the unforgettable...
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Into Thin Air
by Jon Krakauer Publisher Comments When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10,1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028...
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The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
by Gary Krist
Powells.com Staff Pick You think you've got it bad trudging uphill in the snow every day to work and back? Just imagine you're stuck inside one of two trains trapped in the Cascade Mountains during a catastrophic blizzard... and then an avalanche hits! The only thing more...
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Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
by Joe Simpson Publisher Comments Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a...
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Eiger Dreams : Ventures Among Men and Mountains (90 Edition)
by Jon Krakauer Publisher Comments A brilliant collection in which Krakauer writes about battling peaks like K2, Denali, Everest, and the Eiger -- always with a keen eye, an open heart, and a hunger for the ultimate experience....
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Climb #1: The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
by Anatoli Boukreev Publisher Comments As the climbers of the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster vanished into thin air, one man had the courage to bring them down alive... On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by expert leaders attempted to scale the world's largest peak. But things went...
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High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed
by Michael Kodas Publisher Comments In 2004, journalist Michael Kodas joined local mountain climbers from home on an expedition to Mount Everest. He anticipated an exhilarating and arduous adventure among a group of like-minded idealists that he could report to his readers back in...
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Near Death in the Mountains: True Stories of Disaster and Survival (Vintage Departures)
by Cecil Kuhne Publisher Comments He wrapped the rope around his body, got ready to rappel and leaned back. Standing about five feet from him, I heard a sharp scraping, Suddenly Ed was flying. I could see him fall, wordless, fifty feet free, then strike the steep ice below...he was...
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The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier
by Bruce Barcott Publisher Comments The largest and most dangerous volcano in the country, Mount Rainier is perhaps the most potent icon of the Pacific Northwest. It is at once an awe-inspiring natural monument and a hulking presence of peril. Intrigued by the defining pillar of his native...
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Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
by Nick Heil Publisher Comments The inside story of the deadly 2006 climbing season on Everest On May 15, 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit. A week later...
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The Right Mountain: Lessons from Everest on the Real Meaning of Success
by Jim Hayhurst Publisher Comments In 1988 Jim Hayhurst climbed to the top of Mount Everest. THE RIGHT MOUNTAIN is the riveting story of that climb. Using the mountain as a striking metaphor, Hayhust shares profound lessons about incorporating the values of integrity, self-esteem, and...
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Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters
by James M. Tabor Publisher Comments Winner of the 2007 Banff Mountain Festival Book Awards Grand Prize (The PhyllisandDon Munday Award): "A riveting account of a long-ago mountaineering disaster."—Time In 1967, seven young men, members of a twelve-man expedition led by twenty-four...
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High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2 (Extreme Adventures)
by Clint Willis Publisher Comments In this pioneering anthology, Clint Willis presents 75 years of great writing -- from Neil O'Dell to Jon Krakauer -- on the fabled peaks. Here are stories of two British expeditions to Everest in the 1920s; a piece on the 1939 K2 attempt that claimed...
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Minus 148 Degrees
by Art Davidson Publisher Comments Classic tale of dramatic near-death experiences in the harshest of conditions....
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer Publisher Comments When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mount Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028...
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The Last Season (P.S.)
by Eric Blehm Publisher Comments Destined to become a classic of adventure literature, The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California's unforgiving Sierra Nevada—mountains as perilous...
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The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mount Everest
by Conrad Anker Publisher Comments This is the adventure story of the year -- how Conrad Anker found the body of George Mallory on Mount Everest, casting an entirely new light on the mystery of the explorer who may have conquered Everest seventy-five years ago. On June 8, 1924, George...
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The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation
by Clint Willis Publisher Comments This book tells the story of a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent. It is a story of tremendous courage, astonishing achievement and heart-breaking loss. Their leader was the boyish...
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Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber
by Mark Twight Publisher Comments Extreme climber. Extreme writer. Extreme personality. Mark Twight gives a gripping account of some of his most legendary climbs....
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