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Country
  
United States

Subject
  
Collection of essays

Media type
  
Print, e-book

Originally published
  
1 September 1992

Genre
  
Non-fiction

Followed by
  
Into the Wild

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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
September 1, 1992

Pages
  
189 pp.

Author
  
Jon Krakauer

Publisher
  
Globe Pequot Press


Similar
  
Jon Krakauer books, Mountaineering books, Non-fiction books

Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains is a non-fiction collection of articles and essays by Jon Krakauer on mountaineering and rock climbing. Eleven out of twelve of the chapters were initially published between 1982 and 1989 in the magazines Outside, Smithsonian, and New Age Journal.

It concerns a variety of topics, from ascending the Eiger Nordwand in the Swiss Alps, Denali in Alaska or K2 in the Karakoram, to the well-known rock climbers Jon Krakauer has met on his trips, such as John Gill, Adrian Popovich or the Burgess brothers, Adrian and Alan. He also describes other extreme sports, such as canyoneering and climbing frozen waterfalls.

Chapters of the book

  • "Eiger Dreams"
  • "Gill"
  • "Valdez Ice"
  • "On Being Tentbound"
  • "The Flyboys of Talkeetna"
  • "Club Denali"
  • "Chamonix"
  • "Canyoneering"
  • "A Mountain Higher Than Everest?"
  • "The Burgess Boys"
  • "A Bad Summer on K2"
  • "The Devils Thumb"

    • References

    Eiger Dreams Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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