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Title: Facing The Extreme : One Woman's Story Of True Courage And Death-Defying Survival In The Eye Of Mt. McKinley's Worst Storm Ever by Ruth Anne Kocour, Michael Hodgson ISBN: 0-312-96985-6 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.88 (42 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: page turner, artisit's eye, captures elements
Comment: This was a real page turner. AND it came as close to an explanation I expect I'll ever get, as to why anyone would want to climb a mountain in the first place. The descriptions are terrific. The author sees with an artisit's eye and captures for the reader the raw beauty of Denali. She also captures the feel of the elements. Reading late into the night, I went out to walk my dog in a down parka, hat, gloves, etc....and folks, I live in California where it was 54 degrees outside. Ah, the power of the written word. This is a very different approach to climbing than portrayed by Krakauer's book, very team oriented. I never would have read either book, except I have a friend who climbs and have been trying to understand why for years, Kocour's book helped me do that whereas Krakauer's made me think I should reevaluate my friend's sanity. I am glad that I read both, but I think FACING THE EXTREME has by far the most to offer.
Rating: 2
Summary: Krakauer Lite
Comment: I have to agree with others reviewers that Kocuour's ego is a huge obstacle in reading this book. I'm reminded of people who in conversation do nothing but bad-mouth others to compensate for their lack of confidence. Everyone else is weak, unrefined, stupid, or otherwise worth mocking. I'm stuck with the passage where she gets mocks a fellow climber who has brought a book to read about jet airplanes. That's the depth she goes to in her pettiness.
The story itself is interesting and should be compelling, but getting past the author's tone soured the reading experience for me.
I have many mountaineering books. Ones I'd heartily recommend are Joe Tasker and Peter Boardman's "The Boardman Tasker Omnibus", Jim Whittaker's "A Life on the Edge" and Peter Potterfield's "In the Zone". These authors not only write well, but can convey the challenges and trials of mountaineering without narcissism. These books all sit proudly in my bookcase. Kocuour's book is in a cardboard box in my basement.
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting and disturbing
Comment: This book is a great companion read to "Into Thin Air" and the lesser books from that 1996 moment because it, in a refreshing and unique way, exposes the folly and incredible stupidity of some of the people climbing mountains now days. Kocour gives unforgettable and near-comical insights into some of the characters she found herself among on a serious mountain expedition. But this is not a light-hearted book. You'll forever remember the fellow-climber who claimed to have been a tour guide on a particurally famous mount, only to accidentally reveal later, while lacking oxygen, that he'd only been a tour-guide at a recreation of the mount at DisneyLand.
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Title: Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson ISBN: 0060730552 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Tents in the Clouds: The First Women's Himalayan Expedition by Monica Jackson, Arlene Blum, Elizabeth Stark ISBN: 1580050336 Publisher: Seal Press Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt ISBN: 0312965338 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: K2 : Triumph and Tragedy by Jim Curran ISBN: 0395485908 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 03 February, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title:Everest (Large Format) ASIN: B00001U0E2 Publisher: Miramax Home Entertainment Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $16.39 |
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