Addicted to Danger: A Memoir About Affirming Life in the Face of Death
by Jim Wickwire, Dorothy Bullitt
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A high-altitude mountaineer recounts his exploits among the world's highest peaks, including his climbing of K2, his terrifying rendezvous with death, and his addiction to danger.Tags
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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!
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 reader or most likely his wife and family.
Great book from a mountaineer I have been following locally for a long while. Not the edge of the chair reading, but enjoyable.
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Common Knowledge
- People/Characters
- Jim Wickwire; John Roskelley
- Important places
- Mount Everest / Sagarmatha; Himalayas; K2; Karakoram; Denali
- Dedication
- To Mary Lou and Anne, Cathy, Susie, Bob and David
- First words
- We moved down the Peters Glacier slowly, a sled between us loaded heavy with supplies.
- Quotations
- A man who has been in danger, when he comes out of it forgets his fears, and sometimes forgets his promises. Euripides
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I am still catching up.
Classifications
- Genres
- Sports and Leisure, Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 796.522092 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Athletic and outdoor sports and games Outdoor leisure Walking and exploring by kind of terrain Mountains, hills and rocks standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography
- LCC
- GV199.92 .W52 .A3 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Recreation. Leisure Recreation. Leisure
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- Members
- 180
- Popularity
- 182,601
- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (3.15)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
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