Vertical Limit
by Mel Odom
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AN UNFORGETTABLE STORY OF COURAGE, DETERMINATION, AND LOVE A brother and sister are torn apart by tragedy, their lives devastated by a horrific climbing accident. He made a split-second decision that changed their lives forever. He cannot forget. She cannot forgive. He ran away from his pain, hiding in the wilderness as a nature photographer. She froze him out of her life, chasing her father's dream -- to climb the world's highest peaks. Now she is traped in an icy grave at 26,000 feet -- show more above the vertical limit of endurance, a death zone where the human body cannot survive for long. He must climb K2, the world's most feared mountain, to save her. Hold your breath... show lessTags
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Bland action. Got bored and quit reading it. There is something wrong about this style and you just don't get into the characters. It's a novelization of a screenplay. Usually, I like to read the book and movie both, but not this time. Book based on a movie.
this book sucked.
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Mel Odom (born 1957 in California) is a writer who has published more than 140 books. He is best known for his novels of science fiction and fantasy, though he has also written non-fiction about computer gaming. He teaches undergraduate courses at the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication in the Professional Writing program at the show more University of Oklahoma. One of his best known fantasy novels is The Rover (2001), which in 2002 won the Alex Award, an American Library Association award given to novels written for adults that would also appeal to young readers. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Vertical Limit
- Original title
- Vertical Limit
- Original publication date
- 2000
- Related movies
- Vertical Limit (2000 | IMDb)
- Original language
- English US
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- Members
- 38
- Popularity
- 765,270
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.00)
- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 2
