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Bee...ends up I am reading a different book than the one I mentioned...OMG....I love this book....great book for First Timers and Wannabees...
One day this last week at work I felt like I just had to get away so on my lunch break I drove down to the Newport Mesa Assistance League Thrift Store to browse all the second hand treasures of others. I always walk by the book section before leaving to see if any titles catch my eye. My last trip I picked up some wonderful books on Hawaii for my upcoming trip. This trip I saw a large hardback book with the words Seven Summits on it for $1.00. What a great find this little treasure is...I can't Put it down. I highly recommend this book.
Seven Summits by Dick Bass & Frank Wells with Rick Ridgeway......
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Thank you L-A-R,
I am firmly planted in the "wannaBee" category, so this sounds appealing to me (I seem to have heard of this title)
BTW, if anyone has any great ideas on how we should index our *library*, please speak up!
The body betrays and the weather conspires, hopefully, not on the same day. 
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I just finished the first one, Savage Arena, and I'm glad I bought this. Wow...no, WOW!!! What an incredible person and achievements. Down to earth and honest writing, and I agree, you feel like you're on the mountains with him. Glad I saw this.
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I just finished the first one, Savage Arena, and I'm glad I bought this. Wow...no, WOW!!! What an incredible person and achievements. Down to earth and honest writing, and I agree, you feel like you're on the mountains with him. Glad I saw this. I am so delighted you enjoyed it - my all time favorite quote is from that book. Harvey In some ways, going to the mountains is incomprehensible to many people and inexplicable by those who go. The reasons are difficult to unearth and only with those who are similarly drawn is there no need to try to explain. Joe Tasker, Savage Arena, page 260 ( in Boardman-Tasker Omnibus)
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Just finished "WILD" by Cheryl Strayed. How she, as a complete backpack/hiking novice hiked the PCT. A lot of personal insight into her life and why she did what she did, even right down to her last name.
This is a fun, quick read.
Arne
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans". John Lennon
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Hi Bee, Just stumbled upon this great list of adventure books. Not all about mountaineering, but all areas of adventure. Some I've read. One of my favorites - Kon Tiki. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0404/adventure_books_1-19.htmlAs for mountaineering, my favorite book has to be "Snow in the Kingdom" by Ed Webster. I have an autographed copy. Lots of great photos, some of which you can see at this link. http://mtnimagery.com/index.htmlJohn
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John, I read Kon Tiki years and years ago. Loved it! I also had another by Heyerdahl, but I can't recall the title.
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Thank you John -- all adventures are welcome! (I loved Kon Tiki, too)
The body betrays and the weather conspires, hopefully, not on the same day.
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I just finished reading "Ada Blackjack" by Jennifer Niven. It's the story of an 1921 Arctic expedition where the only survivor was a young woman, Ada Blackjack. Not only a good story about a woman's strong will to live, but a little bit of a history lesson on international politics regarding the rescue/relief effort.
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Harvey, I finished the Boardman Tasker Omnibus while acclimating prior to my last trip into the Sierra. One of the most enjoyable book(s) I've read. What's your next favorite sir? I think it's going to be hard topping this one. I just finished the first one, Savage Arena, and I'm glad I bought this. Wow...no, WOW!!! What an incredible person and achievements. Down to earth and honest writing, and I agree, you feel like you're on the mountains with him. Glad I saw this. I am so delighted you enjoyed it - my all time favorite quote is from that book. Harvey In some ways, going to the mountains is incomprehensible to many people and inexplicable by those who go. The reasons are difficult to unearth and only with those who are similarly drawn is there no need to try to explain. Joe Tasker, Savage Arena, page 260 ( in Boardman-Tasker Omnibus)
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There were a lot of gruesome details I didn't know about before like what's really at the Gilkey Memorial at K2's base: here is Charlie Houston's famous story of when Gilkey died Houston, Charles and Bates, RobertK2 the Savage Mountain this is the definitive biography of Houston. McDonald, BernadetteBrotherhood of the Rope. The Biography of Charles Houston.
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An interesting accompaniment to the Death in the Grand Canyon book is a 3D map done, based on statistics the book. of fatalities in Grand Canyon. Brilliant cartography and map design. Zooming in and out shows clustered or individual symbols. It's available on the Internet (though not in 3D) at: http://carto.maps.arcgis.com/apps/OnePane/splash/index.html?appid=cf3bdb4febed4c21878c5c3ac720b784The accompanying tech explanation is interesting if you like that sort of thing... . I misspent my youth in the very small 2 bookshelf collection of mountaineering (and SF!) books in the San Francisco Main Library. Computers hadn't been invented yet, saving me from being a true geek (and, um, dates): Annapurna --Herzog The Last Place On Earth --Huntford Mawson's Will --Lennard Bickel Endurance --Shackleton The West Ridge --Hornbein (one of the first Sierra Club format books -- inspiring a generation of young mountaineers) The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev (Better written and more honest, I thought, than Krakauer's of the same event). Touching the Void --Joe Simpson
None of the views expressed here in any way represent those of the unidentified agency that I work for or, often, reality. It's just me, fired up by coffee and powerful prose.
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