Jim Wickwire

Best climbing book to show the selfishness of climbers.
Good book since it doesn't only show what he climbed (and even that in a highly detached, even unimaginative style lacking captivating details) but why he needed to climb.
Other biographical sections would better have been left out!

The book provides enough action and mountaineering exploits to keep you engaged. I am a mountaineer and ice climber and read quite a few of these types of books. One thing the book did was paint a very negative profile of the author as being self serving and selfish. For someone who did as much travelling as he did I suppose a personality like that is part of the profile. It just seemed to be a big part of the book as though he was desperately trying to explain his point of view to the show more reader or most likely his wife and family. show less

Great book from a mountaineer I have been following locally for a long while. Not the edge of the chair reading, but enjoyable.