Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Books about climbers
Are riveting and also
Make me roll my eyes.
(YOU PEOPLE ARE CRAZY!
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Tags: Poetry
April 23, 2012 at 7:57 pm |
Touching the Void, too:
Laughing in the face of death
Beats other options.
April 24, 2012 at 3:00 pm |
Very insightful!
I think you make a good point:
Don’t run from your fears
(Meg, what do you think? Could that be part of the appeal?)