Monday, November 17, 2008

Daring Do

Climb Every Mountain
If you love adventure tales, outdoor stories, or mountaineering itself, you may enjoy the following reads, each with its own set of thrills.

Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver's book, Fallen Giants, illustrates the effect political and social changes have had on mountaineering in the Himalayas.

Touch the Top of the World is Erik Weihenmayer's story. Eric was the first blind person to summit McKinley; to scale the infamous 3000-foot rock wall of El Capitan and then Argentina's Aconcagua, the highest peak outside of Asia.

Jonathan Neale's Tigers of the Snow blends mountaineering history, German politics in the 1930s, and the legendary Sherpas into one tight read.