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"The author writes about his passion for mountain climbing and those individuals whose lives have helped to shape the sport. From Mount McKinley (Denali) in Alaska to Mont Blanc and the Eiger in the Alps to Mount Everest in the mighty Himalayas Krakauer has been there demonstrating that no climb is too dangerous or difficult for these daring, ambitious, and slightly crazed hobbyists. Impassioned by the thrill of testing their resourcefulness against the forces of nature and the shear rush of putting ones self at deaths door while suspended by a thin rope 2,000 feet above the ground the reasons for climbing and risking all are as varied as the participant.
Facing bitter cold temperatures, gale force winds, avalanches of unstable snow, ice and rock, oxygen deprivation, and equipment failure this is not a pastime for the faint of heart. Advances in equipment and siege type climbing tactics have allowed a wider audience to participate but it has come at a high price with more casualties in recent decades than in the entire 200 plus year history of sport climbing. Krakauer describes his own climbing adventures, the equipment designers, the Alaskan bush pilots, and the gruesome death toll that the mountains exact."
David Fletcher, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Exploring/Searching...
- tall mountains
Outdoors story
Yes
Exploring:
- surviving in outdoors
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- writer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- obsessed
- wild
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- American (!)
How sensitive is this person?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other people
Physique
- very athletic
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 10 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
- Alaska
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- The 'stans
- India
Century:
- 1980's-Present
Style
Person
- rotating 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Book makes you feel?
- challenged
Lot of foul language?
Yes
Commentary on society?
Yes
Commentary on
- dying
Writer's slant towards subject:
- very favorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of set of events during life
Is this a biography of several people?
Yes
Autobiography?
Yes
Pictures/Illustrations?
- None
How much dialogue in bio?
- significantly more descript than dialog
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