On the Ridge Between Life and Death A Climbing Life Reexamined

Name: On the Ridge Between Life and Death A Climbing Life Reexamined
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ISBN: 9780743255196

ISBN-10: 0743255194

ISBN-13: 9780743255196

Edition: 2006

Authors: David Roberts

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What compels mountain climbers to take the risks that they do? Is it the thrill in the physical accomplishment, in managing to defy the odds, or both -- and why do they continue to do what they do in the face of such great danger? InOn the Ridge Between Life and Death, David Roberts confronts these questions head-on as he recounts the exhilarating highs and desperate lows of his climbing career. By the time he was twenty-two, Roberts had already been involved in three fatal mountain climbing accidents and had escaped death himself by the sheerest of luck. And yet, as he acknowledges, few things have brought him more joy than climbing. In a famous essay on the subject written more than…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 9/7/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English