''Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains'' is a
non-fiction
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collection of
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s and
essay
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s by
Jon Krakauer on
mountaineering
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and
rock climbing
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. 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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''.
Overview
It concerns a variety of topics, from ascending the
Eiger ''Nordwand'' in the
Swiss Alps
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,
Denali
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in
Alaska
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or
K2 in the
Karakoram
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, to the well-known
rock climber
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s Jon Krakauer has met on his trips, such as
John Gill,
Adrian Popovich or the Burgess brothers
Chapters of the book
* "Eiger Dreams"
* "Gill"
* "Valdez Ice"
* "On Being Tentbound"
* "The Flyboys of Talkeetna"
* "Club Denali"
* "Chamonix"
* "Canyoneering"
* "A Mountain Higher Than Everest?"
* "The Burgess Boys"
* "A Bad Summer on K2"
* "The Devils Thumb"
Bibliography
* ''Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains'' (1990)
Mountaineering books
1990 non-fiction books
Eiger
Essay collections
Lyons Press books
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