High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2
- ISBN-10
- 1840182911
- ISBN-13
- 9781840182910
- Series
- High
- Category
- Mountaineering
- Pages
- 318
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Mainstream Publishing Company
- Author
- Clint Willis
Description
Following the success of EPIC: STORIES OF SURVIVAL FROM THE WORLD'S HIGHEST PEAKS, Adrenaline Books returns with HIGH: STORIES OF SURVIVAL FROM EVEREST AND K2. The first anthology devote exculusively to climbing on the world's two highest and best-known mountains, High spans the years 1933 through 1996. Editor Clint Willis has gathered the best-written and most exciting prose about mountaineering's ultimate challenges by the century's most accomplished writers - from Jon Krakauer to David Roberts to Chris Bonnington. When Matt Dickinson tells what it's like for an amateur to climb a swaying aluminium ladder high on Everest's North Col route, we understand his fear. When Jim Haverl waits high on K2's Abruzzi Ridge for sunrise over China to slow the bitter wind and warm his extremities, we know he is cold. When Maria Coffey mourns the loss of her beloved, who died on Everest's unclimbed North Ridge, we grieve with her. And when Doug Scott summits Everest via the horrendously difficult Southwest face and later writes of the moment, `All the world lay before us. . . , ' it lies before us as well.
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Other editions
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- 2022-08-25
- 692 pages
- Paperback
- MacLehose Press
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- 2019
- 277 pages
- Paperback
- HMH Books For Young Readers
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- 2017-10-11
- 240 pages
- Ebook
- University of Washington Press
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