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Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
by Jon Krakauer
An excellent installment for my Armchair Alpinist Adventures. I particularly liked the chapters on Denali, canyoneering (though that one did leave me humming the Canyonero song for the rest of the day), and K2. If I ever graduate from armchair to real life, I can imagine myself getting wild enough to try Denail. Not Everest, and obviously not K2. That chapter left me gasping out loud. I know how deadly K2 is. I realized halfway through the chapter that it was only about people dying on K2, but I still caught myself hoping the people in question were going to make it at the last minute. (Spoiler alert: they don't. Don't climb K2. It's a bad idea. At the time the book was written, K2 was the deadliest mountain. Now it's only second deadliest, behind Anapurna I. So don't climb that one either. This has been a public service announcement.) And cayoneering? If anyone reading this knows ANYONE who does this, please give them my phone number. I will pay someone lots of money to take me on the kind of adventures described in this essay. If one can even still have such adventures, thirty years later.