The Mammoth Book of On The Edge: B Format (Mammoth Books)

by Jon E Lewis (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $22.14

  No one sees clearer than an individual whose life is hanging by the finger tips on the edge of an abyss. Probing the furthest reaches of human daring and endurance, here are 28 of the great first-hand accounts of extreme mountaineering, from legendary names. Featuring: *Heinrich Harrer - first conqueror of the notorious Eigerwand. *Robert Bates - the classic account of the ill-fated American 1953 expedition to K2. *Maurice Herzog - his unstoppable ascent of Annapurna at the cost of frostbite. *Walter Bonatti - tragedy on the Central Pillar of Freney on Mont Blanc. *George Leigh Mallory - surviving an avalanche on the 1922 Everest expedition. *Rene Desmaison - his epic story of 14 days stuck on The Grandes Jorasses in winter. *Jon Krakauer - recalling his solo ascent of The Devil's Thumb in Alaska. The price of the summit is often measured in human suffering, yet for those who succeed the rewards can be incalculable. Nerve-wracking and unputdownable.

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $4.48

  In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and Anatoli Boukreev's The Climb, Jon E. Lewis takes the reader into the depleted zone of extreme mountaineering. Presenting first-hand accounts of climbs on the great peaks and 'big walls' of five continents, spanning an arc in time from the new alpinism of the 1930s to the present, On the Edge is a book about the furthest reaches of human daring and endurance. Among the accounts: Reinhold Messner's successful scaling of Nanga Parbat in 1970, only to lose his brother in an avalanche on the descent Maurice Herzog's unstoppable ascent of Annapurna at the cost of his frost-bitten fingers Sebastian Snow's peak-to-peak scaling of two Ecuadorean mountains Walter Bonatti's tragic attempt on Mont Blanc, leaving four of his seven-man party dead in the snow