Full name: Epic: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks

Author: Clint Willis Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781560251545 1560251549

Epic is a mountaineering term that evokes a sense of treacherous disaster — the climb that went wrong; fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches; days spent tentbound, running low on food, water, and oxygen; surviving broken bones and shattered spirits. Editor Clint Willis has gathered the most exciting climbing literature of the modern age into one cliff-hanging volume with 15 memorable accounts of legend-making expeditions to the world's most famous peaks, often in the world's worst possible conditions. Authors include Jon Krakauer, Greg Child, David Roberts, Alfred Lansing, and others. Similar books: No Shortcuts to the Top by Ed Viesturs Where the Mountain Casts its Shadow by Maria Coffey K2, Triumph and Tragedy by Jim Curran K2, the Savage Mountain by Charles Houston Below Another Sky by Rick Ridgeway The Beckoning Silence by Joe Simpson Dead Lucky by Lincoln Hall On the Ridge Between Life and Death by David Roberts Conquistadors of the Useless by Lionel Terray No Way Down by Graham Bowley K2 by Ed Viesturs This Game of Ghosts by Joe Simpson The mountains of my life by Walter Bonatti The White Death by Mckay Jenkins Savage Summit by Jennifer Jordan