Eiger Dreams Audiobook (Free)

No-one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. Within this collection of his finest essays and reporting, Krakauer writes of mountains from your memorable perspective of one that has himself battled with single madness to level Alaska’s notorious Devils Thumb.

In Pakistan, the fearsome K2 kills thirteen of the world’s most experienced mountain climbers in one horrific summer months. In Valdez, Alaska, two males scale a freezing waterfall over a about Eiger Dreams four-hundred-foot drop. In France, a hip worldwide crowd of rock climbers, bungee jumpers, and paragliders find out new methods to risk their lives around the towering peaks of Mont Blanc. Why perform they are doing it? How do they are doing it? With this incredible reserve, Krakauer presents an unusual fraternity of daredevils, sportsmen, and misfits extending the limits from the possible.

In the paranoid confines of the snowbound tent, towards the thunderous, suffocating terror of the white-out on Mount McKinley, Eiger Dreams spins tales of driven lives, sudden deaths, and incredible victories. This is a stirring, brilliant book about one of the most powerful and dangerous of most human pursuits.