Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains Audiobook (Free)

No-one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. . In this collection of thirteen of his finest essays and confirming – like the article, “Can be Yosemite LIKELY TO The Canines” – Krakauer writes of mountains in the memorable perspective of one that has himself struggled 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 about Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains one horrific summer time. In Valdez, Alaska, two men scale a iced waterfall over a four-hundred-foot drop. In France, a hip international crowd of rock climbers, bungee jumpers, and paragliders find out new ways to risk their lives around the towering peaks of Mont Blanc. Why do they are doing it? How do they do it? With this amazing reserve, Krakauer presents an unusual fraternity of daredevils, athletes, and misfits stretching the limits of the possible.

In the paranoid confines of a snowbound tent, to the thunderous, suffocating terror of a white-out on Mount McKinley, Eiger Dreams spins tales of driven lives, sudden deaths, and incredible victories. That is a stirring, vibrant book about perhaps one of the most persuasive and dangerous of all human pursuits.