Author(s): Krakauer, Jon

Sports & Activity

No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer.

In this collection of thirteen of his finest essays and reporting - including the essay, "Is Yosemite Going To The Dogs" - Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska's notorious Devils Thumb. 

From the paranoid confines of a snowbound tent, to the thunderous, suffocating terror of a white-out on Mount McKinley, Eiger Dreams spins tales of driven lives, sudden deaths, and incredible victories. This is a stirring, vivid book about one of the most compelling and dangerous of all human pursuits.