“He wrapped the rope round his physique, obtained able to rappel and leaned again. status approximately 5 ft from him, I heard a pointy scraping, without notice Ed was once flying. i may see him fall, wordless, fifty toes unfastened, then strike the steep ice below…he was once sliding and bouncing down. He handed out of sight, yet I heard his physique bouncing. There wasn't an opportunity of his preventing for 4,000 feet.”—From David Robert's The Mountain of My FearIn those thrillingly precise stories of slender brushes with demise, Cecil Kuhne has collected quite a lot of tales that express the notable strength of the mountains. Spanning 5 continents, from the frosty tip of Mount McKinley within the lifeless of the iciness, to the unexplored vastness of the Himalayas and past, this can be a pulse-pounding selection of catastrophe and survival on the most sensible of the area. additionally featuring:• Joe Simpson's Touching the Void—An inspiring tale of a climber who topples right into a icy crevasse and, even though crippled, ravenous and frostbitten, nonetheless manages to move slowly to rescue. • Jon Krakauer's Eiger Dreams—Reaching the boundaries of his personal hiking talents, the writer makes a very important choice no matter if to courageous the treacherous larger altitudes or go back to base.• Nando Parrado's Miracle within the Andes—The lovely first-person account of a Peruvian rugby team's aircraft crash within the Chilean Andes and their harrowing trip down the mountain for support.
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