Epic—a mountaineering term that evokes a sense of treacherous disaster. The climb that went wrong: fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches; days spent tentbound running low on food, water and oxygen; surviving broken bones and shattered spirits. With writing from Greg Child, David Roberts, Stephen Venables, Alfred Lansing and others, Epic is a collection of the most memorable accounts of legend-making expeditions to the world's most famous peaks, often in the worst possible conditions. Epic is an adventure audiobook at its most compelling!
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Release date
November 1, 1999 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781593162511
- File size: 170324 KB
- Duration: 05:54:50
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Listeners will find it hard to turn this off before the end of any of its stories. Clint Willis has collected long excerpts from seven of the greatest and most literary mountaineering adventure books, giving us six hours of provocative, high-quality listening that will inspire families, hikers, and armchair adventurers. Highlights include Graeme Malcolm's strikingly moving reading of Alfred Lansing's ENDURANCE: SHACKLETON'S INCREDIBLE VOYAGE, and MINUS 148 DEGREES: THE WINTER ASCENT OF MT. MCKINLEY by Art Davidson, read expertly and emotionally by Rick Adamson. S.E.S. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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