The Mountain of My Fear

by David Roberts

Hardcover, 1968

Status

Available

Call number

796.5

Tags

mountains, climbing history

Genres

Collection

Read but unowned

Publication

Vanguard Press (1968), Edition: First Edition, Hardcover, 157 pages

User reviews

LibraryThing member amerynth
David Robert's memoir "The Mountain of my Fear" chronicles his 1965 four-man climb of a new route on Alaska's Mount Huntington, expedition that resulted in a successful summit and a tragic accident on the way down. Roberts is just the right amount of technical climbing information, poetic waxing
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 and introspection about his team members. His anguish after the accident is almost palpable. This is definitely one of the better mountaineering memoirs out there.
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Awards

Extreme Classics: The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time (028)

Language

English

Original publication date

1968

Physical description

157 p.; 9.1 inches

ISBN

0814901921 / 9780814901922

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