An acclaimed mountaineer delivers an exhilarating chronicle that brings the reader inside the daredevil world of those who risk their lives to climb, in this exciting introduction to Laurel's Expedition series. "Krakauer has taken the literature of the mountains onto a higher ledge".--New York Times Book Review.
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An acclaimed mountaineer delivers an exhilarating chronicle that brings the reader inside the daredevil world of those who risk their lives to climb, in this exciting introduction to Laurel's Expedition series. "Krakauer has taken the literature of the mountains onto a higher ledge".--New York Times Book Review.
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This collection of stories is at once a wonderful account of a very narrow slice of humanity that does things involving great risk for ambiguous reasons and a search by Krakauer for an understanding of why he does similar things. All of the tales lead to his final essay where he offers some self-realizations..