Ed Viesturs with David Roberts. Crown, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-72042-9
Viesturs (No Shortcuts to the Top), with an assist from writer Roberts, conveys the almost manic dedication and preparation of the accomplished mountaineers mastering such dangerous peaks as the perilous Annapurna. Quoting from Soviet climber...
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Ed Viesturus, with David Roberts. Touchstone, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4516-9473-4
In this amiable history/memoir hybrid, noted high-altitude climber Viesturs discusses the joys and tribulations to be found on the world’s highest mountain and his successful quest to climb every peak over 8,000 meters. Few know more about Everest...
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Ed Viesturs, Author, David Roberts, With Broadway Books $26 (342p) ISBN 978-0-7679-3250-9
Facing the world's second-highest peak, the Karakoram Range's K2 in Northern Pakistan, mountain climbers encounter incredible dangers, including a huge serac (an overhanging glacier), snow-obscured crevasses, whiteouts and avalanches that...
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Ed Viesturs, Author, David Roberts, With with David Roberts. Broadway $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7679-2470-2
In the opening scene of Viesturs's memoir of his quest to become the first American to climb the 14 mountains in the world higher than 8,000 meters, he and a friend nearly get thrown off the face of K2 when they're caught in an avalanche. It&
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