THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF THE EDGE, AN ANTHOLOGY OF MOUNTAINEERING ADVENTURES

Jon E.Lewis

Robinson 2001

This (497pp) paperback book contains eyewitness accounts of triumph and tragedy on the world’s greatest mountains.

In the traditions of Jon Krakauer’s ‘Into Thin Air’ and Anatoli Boukreev’s The Climb, The Mammoth Book of The Edge takes the reader into the oxygen scarce zones of extreme mountaineering. Presenting 25 first hand accounts  on the peaks and ‘big walls’ of four continents, spanning an arc in time from the golden Victorian age of Edward Whymper to the present, this is truly an exploration of the furthest reaches of human daring and endurance. The price of the summit is often measured in human suffering, yet for those who succeed the rewards are incalculable.

The book is slightly cocked (as most paperbacks do), the pages are clean and tidy and the book is tightly bound