Mountain Madness

Name: Mountain Madness
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ISBN: 9780806528762

ISBN-10: 0806528761

ISBN-13: 9780806528762

Edition: 2009

Authors: Robert Birkby

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This is a homage to a man who ventured where most fear to tred. Before his tragic death in 1996, mountaineer Scott Fischer scaled the highest and most treacherous peaks on Earth and became, for many, an iconic symbol of hubris, audacity and the limits of endurance.

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 2/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 342
Size: 5.99" wide x 8.96" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Writer Robert Birkby has served with the SCA as a crew leader and instructor for more than two decades. He is the author of the current editions of The Boy Scout Handbook and Fieldbook--Boy Scouts of America.



Introduction



Olympus



Thirty Days to Survival



A Bunch of Bruces



Off Belay



Follow the Rainbow



The Fallingest Man in Climbing



The Alaska Factor



Mountain Madness



Kilimanjaro the Really Hard Way



Annapurna Fang



Rockin' with the Ruskies



It's All Fun Until Somebody Dies



Everest North Face



The Nutrition Expedition



The Wrong Mountain



F.O.S.



K2 in '92



What Would Hillary Do?



Everest with Good Style



The Year Before the Year



Last Climb



After the Storm


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index