Near Death in the Mountains: True Stories of Disaster and Survival-Quality Guarantee

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“He wrapped the rope around his body, got ready to rappel and leaned five feet from him, I heard a sharp scraping,Suddenly Ed was flying.I couldsee him fall, wordless, fifty feet free, then strike the steep ice below…he was slidingand bouncing passed out of sight, but I heard his body bouncing. Therewasn’t a chance of his stopping for 4,000 feet.”

—From David Robert’s The Mountainof My Fear

In these thrillingly true tales of narrow brushes with death, Cecil Kuhnehas amassed a wide range of stories that show the awesome power of the five continents, from the frosty tip of Mount McKinley in the dead of thewinter, to the unexplored vastness of the Himalayas and beyond, this is a pulse-poundingcollection of disaster and survival at the top of the world.

Also featuring:

•Joe Simpson’s Touching the Void—An inspiring story of a climber who topples intoa icy crevasse and, though crippled, starving and frostbitten, still manages to crawlto rescue.

• Jon Krakauer’s Eiger Dreams—Reaching the limits of his own climbingskills, the author makes a crucial decision whether to brave the treacherous higheraltitudes or return to base.

• Nando Parrado’s Miracle in the Andes—The stunningfirst-person account of a Peruvian rugby team’s airplane crash in the Chilean Andesand their harrowing journey down the mountain for help.