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Quality
Excellent choice for anyone seeking a piece of adventure especially mountaineering literature with the eerie thrill that its a real story
He tells the good with the bad mostly bad if you ask me in taking on a climb to 29000 feet
It tells a story from jon krakauers perspective who is the only person who published a book on the team with the 5 climbers deaths
Price
Krakauer is a good climber and an even better writer
Packaging/appearance
Thrust high into the jetstream the mountain ripped a visible gash in the 120knot hurricane sending forth a plume of ice crystal... Read More
Competitiveness
Jon krakaure did an exellent job explaining the events of that ascent in very good detail
It is on the same thing and is even more amzing than this he was supposed to die 45 time in the book
Krakauer said that inexperienced climbers and a crowd to get to the top of the world
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- This product had a total of 19,890 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 5 2024.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Makes a good coffee table book if not your bedtime reading copy
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I trembled when krakauer described the night climbing which was hairraising enough and the 100mph wind storms
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Each one stands 1483 feet tall the highest building in the world
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The problem with most mountineering books is that they are written by men and women for whom the adventure and danger have become almost routine see for example anatoly boukreevs account of this same expedition
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
That he seemingly possesses little of the cockiness often associated with mountaineers is a big plus
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I like milliones of other americans knew little about mount everest before reading krakauers account of the 1996 everest tragedy
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Upon compleating this book i went on the read other accounts of the 96 tragedy and they do not touch krakauers
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I say this because much of the book is written in a way that assumes some knowledge of the terms techniques and landscape of ice climbing
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