Fatal Mountaineer: The High-Altitude Life and Death of Willi Unsoeld, American Himalayan Legend

Roper, Robert

ISBN 10: 0312261535 / ISBN 13: 9780312261535

Published by St. Martin's Press, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Fatal Mountaineer: The High-Altitude Life ...

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Publication Date: 2002

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: very_good

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Synopsis:

Physical description; xii, 306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm. Subjects; Unsoeld, William Francis 1926-1979. Mountaineers - United States - Biography.

Review:

"Fatal Mountaineer."..combines vivid characterization, gripping accounts of extreme mountaineering and accessible technical information, as well as pertinent cultural historical and philosophical reflection. It's a rich tapestry, a book for both the general reader and the climbing fanatic.--Floyd Skloot "San Francisco Chronicle "

With journalistic skill, Roper also delves into Unsoeld's transcendental philosophies and their fallacies...The book's greatest accomplishment is in the light it sheds on the shadows of mountain climbing and the impossible ideals of a hero.--Mark Larabee "The Oregonian "

"Fatal Mountaineer."..combines vivid characterization, gripping accounts of extreme mountaineering and accessible technical information, as well as pertinent cultural historical and philosophical reflection. It's a rich tapestry, a book for both the general reader and the climbing fanatic. Floyd Skloot, "San Francisco Chronicle"

[A] cautionary tale of how pursuit of a mountain at any cost and in any weather can have deadly consequences. "Lynn Arave, Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)"

With journalistic skill, Roper also delves into Unsoeld's transcendental philosophies and their fallacies...The book's greatest accomplishment is in the light it sheds on the shadows of mountain climbing and the impossible ideals of a hero. Mark Larabee, "The Oregonian""

"Fatal Mountaineer...combines vivid characterization, gripping accounts of extreme mountaineering and accessible technical information, as well as pertinent cultural historical and philosophical reflection. It's a rich tapestry, a book for both the general reader and the climbing fanatic." --Floyd Skloot, San Francisco Chronicle

"[A] cautionary tale of how pursuit of a mountain at any cost and in any weather can have deadly consequences." --Lynn Arave, Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)

"With journalistic skill, Roper also delves into Unsoeld's transcendental philosophies and their fallacies...The book's greatest accomplishment is in the light it sheds on the shadows of mountain climbing and the impossible ideals of a hero." --Mark Larabee, The Oregonian