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Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains

Jon Krakauer

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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“Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.”

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