Product Description

With some of the best adventure writing of the century from the pens of great authors such as Matt Dickinson and Chris Bonington, High offers vivid accounts of why Everest and K2 are among the world's most feared and respected peaks, and why the world's climbers can't stay away

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1187706 in Books
• Published on: 2001-06-14
• Formats: Audiobook, Unabridged
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 4
• Binding: Audio Cassette
• 6 pages

Review
"This anthology of real-life mountaineering accounts of adventures and tragedies on Everest and K2 is absolutely gripping."

Customer Reviews

excellent starting point
If you are a new conver to himalayan mountaineering, this book covers some of the best extracts from the best stories. Particular favourites are from the other side of everest by Matt Dickinson and Everest the hard way by Doug Scott and the late Dougal Haston. If you think you may be interested, buy it . its very good

Once you start, you can't stop.
Willis has selected well-written and exhilarating stories and assembled them in the fashion of a great short-story anthology. This book takes the reader through the entire range of human emotions, showing humans at their very best--as well as their worst. You might, at times, wonder why these people put their lives on the line, but you won't wonder why you bought this book.

Well worth the read
I have now read three of the five books in this set and must say that I have enjoyed the reading. This book has given me a great deal of pleasure due to the content of the book. Each story that is told by the orignal author is in itself a part of climbing history. When you read the words that were written at the time of some of the adventures, you must travel back to days they were written. The equipment and the way the individuals climbed is all brought back to the reader. Some of the climbers are known to myself, but some, have been lost to my memory and the memory of others and this book has brought back the names, which will be researched for future reading. If you are going to write a book of this nature you must make it worth reading and that is what Clint Willis has done, he has produced a book that has given me a very small part of 16 story's which have been told by the people that were there. I will be looking up some of the books that have been used to produce this book because if this is one part of the story, what is the rest of the book like.