Epic: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks

by Clint Willis (Editor)

Overview

Epic is a mountaineering term that evokes a sense of treacherous disaster — the climb that went wrong; fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches; days spent tentbound, running low on food, water, and oxygen; surviving broken bones and shattered spirits. Editor Clint Willis has gathered the most exciting climbing literature of the modern age into one cliff-hanging volume with 15 memorable accounts of legend-making expeditions to the world's most famous peaks, often in the world's worst possible conditions. Authors include Jon Krakauer, Greg Child, David Roberts, Alfred Lansing, and others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781560251545
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date:	11/14/1997
Series:	Adrenaline
Edition description:	1 ED
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

Editorial Reviews

If you liked Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, read this book.

Boston Phoenix

From Alfred Lansing's narrative of the 1915 Shackleton expedition to Jon Krakauer's chronicle of his bold solo of the Devils Thumb, this is a superb collection of some of the best mountain and adventure writing of the century.

Climbing Magazine

Each set has a variety of four or five narrators, all of whom are excellent readers. Variety comes in the stories themselves, which portray a wide range of experiences. Many of the stories will keep you on the edge of your seat. Others will make you marvel and wonder at these crazy fools who risk their lives.

The Chapel Hill News

Listening to these audio books is an armchair adventurer’s dream, as you sit back, close your eyes, and let your imagination go.

Independent Publisher

The pride and thrill of achieving a summit is described vividly, both in terms of vocal inflection and vocabulary choice. The anguish over losing a climbing comrade, the despair after realizing one is lost and the hope of rescue from bad weather are found in almost every story

ForeWord