Eiger Dreams

Book by Jon Krakauer
0-385-48818-1Followed byInto the Wild 

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.

Overview

It concerns a variety of topics, from ascending the Eiger Nordwand in the Swiss Alps, Denali in Alaska or K2 in the Karakoram, to the well-known rock climbers 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) ISBN 0-385-48818-1
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Books
Film and television
adaptations
  • Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (1997)
  • Into the Wild (2007)
  • Everest (2015)
  • Under the Banner of Heaven (2022)


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