Over the Edge: A Regular Guy's Odyssey in Extreme Sports

Over the Edge: A Regular Guy's Odyssey in Extreme Sports
ISBN-10
0899972659
ISBN-13
9780899972657
Series
Over the Edge
Category
Athletes
Language
English
Published
2000
Author
Michael Bane

Description

What is it like to go to the very edge of the world and look over? In this personal narrative, former couch potato Michael Bane begins an incredible journey that takes him from the abyss to the highest, storm-swept mountains and, ultimately, changes his life forever. Following The List -- 13 extreme events, chosen arbitrarily and jotted on a cocktail napkin -- Bane went from his living room couch to swimming across San Francisco Bay, scuba diving in caves, climbing frozen waterfalls, kayaking off sheer cliffs, and riding a bicycle across Alaska in the dead of winter. He faces his greatest challenges on the eternally frozen slopes of Mt. McKinley, reeling from altitude sickness and battered by vicious storms. Bane's transformation is chronicled in his critically acclaimed book, praised by the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and numerous other publications as a master work in sports journalism.

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