Rocky Horrors Frozen Smiles - A Mountaineer at the End of His Rope |  | Author: Peter Austen
Publisher: Peter Austen Productions
Category: eBooks
In Stock
Sales Rank: 501,731
Format: Kindle eBook
Language: English (Published)
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: Second
Pages: 212
Number Of Items: 1
ASIN: B006ZICUH2
Publication Date: January 18, 2012
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Product Description
Avalanches, lightning on mountaintops, high-altitude diseases, grizzly bears, the unpredictability of people under extreme stress, hypothermia, and even exploding volcanoes are some of the Rocky Horrors described in this refreshingly unconventional, hilarious, and unpretentious collection, combing climbing, travel, culture, and adventure. Peter Austen shows that the journey is at least as important as reaching the summit. Totally successful trips, where nothing life-threatening happens, are fine for guidebooks, but it is the sometimes unavoidable errors and accidents that make for gripping reading.
"Monty Pythonesque and splendidly understates the rigors and dangers of mountaineering, which become more vivid, real and poignant for that very reason."
-Canadian Book Review Annual.
"Moving, candid and funny: sometimes grim experiences. Captures the craziness that keeps climbers going.:
- Norman Gidney, Victoria Times Columnist
"An entertaining, funny and cautionary book combining a rich a sense of humanity with adventure, travel, culture and humor in mountains throughout the world. Peter shows that climbers are accessible and human after all, not minor gods. Readers will be amazed he lived to write about it all."
- Frank Peebles, The Free Press
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