Eiger Dreams

Name: Eiger Dreams
ISBN: 9781493035373

Jon Krakauer

208 pages · about 3 hours
First published 1990
18 editions

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1 About this book

Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains is a non-fiction collection of articles and essays by Jon Krakauer on mountaineering and rock climbing. Eleven out of twelve of the chapters were initially published between 1982 and 1989 in the magazines Outside, Smithsonian, and New Age Journal.

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Mountaineering
Bergsport

2 About Jon Krakauer

Born 1954

Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer. He is the author of bestselling nonfiction books—Into the Wild; Into Thin Air; Under the Banner of Heaven; and Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman—as well as numerous magazine articles.

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