Want to write a book about facing death? Climb a mountain!

Updated March 6, 2023
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The hill : a true story of tragedy, recovery, and redemption on North America's highest peak
Hommer, Ed.
Paper Book
Chronicles the plane crash that left the author, and pilot of the plane, without his lower legs, documenting the changes in his life and relationships, and his eventual success in reaching the summit of Mount McKinley.
Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster
Krakauer, Jon
Paper Book
When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still...
127 hours : between a rock and a hard place
Ralston, Aron.
Paper Book
The international bestseller Between a Rock and a Hard Place is now a major motion picture starring James Franco. Hiking into the remote Utah canyonlands, Aron Ralston felt perfectly at home in the beauty of the natural world. Then, at 2:41 P.M., eight miles from his truck, in a...
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