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Mountain Madness
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Author : Robert Birkby
language : en
Publisher: Citadel
Release Date : 2009-02-01
Mountain Madness written by Robert Birkby and has been published by Citadel this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
“An extraordinary life.”—The New York Times Book Review “A fitting homage to one of the great outdoor extremists.”—Kirkus Reviews Legendary climber Scott Fischer found in Mount Everest a perfect landscape for his fearless spirit. Scaling the world’s highest peak tested his skills, his courage, and his endurance. His legendary final expedition—and its tragic outcome—are portrayed in Everest, the 3-D movie adaptation starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Scott Fischer. Robert Birkby, one of Scott’s close friends, captures in this intimate and stirring portrait who Scott Fischer really was and what led him to climb to the top of the world—before he left it altogether. “A personal, uncritical biography that rounds out the portrait of Fischer sketched in Krakauer’s best-seller Into Thin Air.”—The New York Times Book Review “A much fuller picture of a climber widely critiqued in the high-profile coverage after the Everest tragedy.”—Seattle Post Intelligencer “A vivid portrait of a superb athlete whose love of mountain climbing drove everything he did.”—Ed Viesturs, author of No Shortcuts to the Top “Birkby succeeds in illuminating the power mountains can exert over the human soul.—Publishers Weekly Updated with a New Introduction and Epilogue Plus new photos exclusive to the digital edition!
Mountain Madness
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Author : Clinton Crockett Peters
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2021-03-01
Mountain Madness written by Clinton Crockett Peters and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-01 with Nature categories.
With Mountain Madness, Clinton Crockett Peters chronicles his travels and personal transformation from a West Texas evangelical to mountain guide-addict to humbled humanist after a near-fatal injury in Japan’s Chichibu Mountains. From 2007 to 2010, Peters lived in Kosuge Village (population nine hundred), nestled in central Japan’s peaks, where he was the only foreigner in the rugged town. Using these three years as a frame, this essay collection profiles who he was before Japan, why he became obsessed with mountains, and his fallout from mountain obsession, including an essay on Craig Arnold, the poet who disappeared on a Japanese volcano. Ultimately, the collection asks, how can landscape create and end identities?
Neverest New Insights
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Author : Nick Van Der Leek
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2021-06-16
Neverest New Insights written by Nick Van Der Leek and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-16 with categories.
In 2006 freelance photojournalist and amateur climber Nick van der Leek wrote a five page analysis of the 1996 Everest disaster titled MOUNTAIN MADNESS, and published in HEARTLAND magazine. His distillation was described at the time by THE CLIMB co-author, Weston DeWalt, as 'the clearest exposition of the 1996 disaster I have ever seen'. Now, nine years later, having honed his penmanship within the rigors and deceits of the True Crime genre, Nick van der Leek is taking on the Everest narrative once more but with a fresh approach. Compared to his 2006 article, NEVEREST is a much larger and deeper analysis of the events leading up to 'the deadliest day on Mount Everest [May 10]. Van der Leek makes no bones about the purpose of this narrative: "We'll be treating the 1996 disaster as a criminal investigation; and the mountain itself as a crime scene." From this unique and fascinating vantage point the reader is dragged back into a deadly 'storm over Everest', one that brings readers and amateur climbers face to face with something more terrifying than the mountain itself. What are the motives of the men climbing the world's tallest mountain? What Van der Leek manages to achieve in NEVEREST is to show the naked ambition and base morality of many of the men and women who returned from the dismal heights to a hero's welcome. What if some of them weren't heroes? Using the psychology 'it takes a thief to catch a thief' professional photojournalist and one time climber of Kilimanjaro, Nick van der Leek demystifies the heroism of climbing. "The question is whether climbing a real mountain is an authentic process towards growing ones symbolic self, and the question is whether climbing the world's highest mountain means accessing the highest parts of the self." Would we climb that mountain if there were no picture taken at the top? Would we still push for the summit if it meant coming back and not telling a soul? By following the narrative of the MOUNTAIN MADNESS team, Van der Leek investigates and cross references what Scott Fischer's mostly American crew and clients did right as opposed to their rivals on Everest: Adventure Consultants [five members of Hall's team died on the mountain including Rob Hall]. As Van der Leek pursues an explanation to account for this incongruity he finds and then mines the golden thread buried within the great mountain. Were the teams locked in a deadly rivalry, or did they just run out of oxygen and time? Was it the weather or human error or the result of something else? What role did hubris play in Everest's deadliest day, and what role does it play in your life?
Mountain Madness
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Author : Anna Alice Chapin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1917
Mountain Madness written by Anna Alice Chapin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1917 with American fiction categories.
Mountain Madness
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Author : Lady Winifred Fortescue
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1943
Mountain Madness written by Lady Winifred Fortescue and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1943 with Alps categories.
Mountain Madness
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977-01-01
Mountain Madness written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977-01-01 with Mountaineering categories.
Mountain Madness
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Author : Haydn Middleton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Mountain Madness written by Haydn Middleton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Mountaineering categories.
Rocky Mountain Madness
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Author : Edward Cavell
language : en
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
Release Date : 2009-05
Rocky Mountain Madness written by Edward Cavell and has been published by Heritage House Publishing Co this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Rocky Mountain Madness" is a throwback to the heyday of Victorian ambition when Banff was a rustic-albeit bucolically charming- outpost of the Empire and the streets were people with climbers, outfitters, cowboys, cooks, guides, photographers and poets. This entertaining collection of historical photographs, amusing newspaper accounts, reminiscences and letters evokes the capricious antics the mountains summoned for these people and, to quote the authors, includes 'accounts of occasional accomplishment, accomplished adventure, adventurous rambling and rambling discourse.
At The Mountains Of Madness
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Author : H.P. Lovecraft
language : en
Publisher: Namaskar Books
Release Date :
At The Mountains Of Madness written by H.P. Lovecraft and has been published by Namaskar Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
Mountain Madness
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Author : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988-12-01
Mountain Madness written by HarperCollins Publishers Limited and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-12-01 with categories.