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Title: Epic: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks (The Adrenaline Series) by Jon Krakauer, Greg Child, Stephan Venables, Art Davidson, David Roberts, Alfred Lansing, Eric Conger, Rick Adamson, Graeme Malcolm, Alan Sklar ISBN: 1-885408-33-1 Publisher: Listen & Live Audio Pub. Date: December, 1999 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (13 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Epic, delivers the goods
Comment: This book is essentially a compilation of short stories from books written by world class mountaineers. Anyone who is well read in this genre will immediately recognize these short stories from the books they were taken. The stories are exceptionally well written and edited. Some are epic survival tales and others document the never ending string of tragedies that befall many mountaineering expeditions. The format works well even though the stories are in no particular time sequence. I highly recommend this book, and many of the other books from which the stories have been excerpted. Pick some of your favorite short stories from this book and follow up with the complete tomes. You will not be disappointed.

Rating: 5
Summary: This is a good book for people who are wanna-be climbers.
Comment: this is a really great compilation of a bunch of different climbing stories. Real climbers own and read this book. in fact, you can be like them if you read this book. Experience the magic, live the dream.

Rating: 4
Summary: Good Collection - Worth Reading
Comment: This book is a collection of short stories about some very very very dificult climbings in the most dangerous places(mountains) under the most terrible conditions.
Among the stories are some classics like: The West Ridge-Everest(1.st ascent - Hornbein & Unsoeld); Annapurna(1.st ascent - Herzog version); k2 The Savage Mountain(The Schoening belay - by Bates and Houston); McKinley winter's ascent(by Art Davidson).
The book provides a good taste of the dificulties a climber must surpass in order to succed(survive), the only downpoint is that some stories just missed a more tradicional ending, basicaly because in the end you don't know what happened to the climbers, you can only assume they survive.

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