Fatal Mountaineer: The High-Altitude Life and Death of Willi Unsoeld, American Himalayan Legend

Willi Unsoeld became an international hero during the Kennedy years, when he emerged as probably the greatest American climber of the Himalayan golden age. Displaying the sort of vigor that President Kennedy so admired, Unsoeld became the most visible hero of an ascent of Everest's previously-unclimbed West Ridge -- an ascent that cost him parts of both feet and nearly his life. His casual fearlessness and physical power established the template for extreme adventure, and his lectures as a charismatic professor inspired the generation of the sixties to test itself in acts of physical daring. Fatal Mountaineer sets Willi Unsoeld's intense life against the story of two defining adventures: the triumph on Everest and a more ill-starred expedition in 1976, when he led a group of mountaineers up a new route on Nanda Devi, the tallest peak in India. One of that gifted group of climbers was Willi's daughter, Devi -- a golden girl named for the mountain she sought to ascend with her beloved father. The intense rivalries within the expedition team, and the dangers of the route, led to an outcome darkened by tragedy, an outcome that continues to fuel one of the most tormenting debates in mountaineering history. Blending adventure with a frank look at the cultural background, Fatal Mountaineer considers the pressures on mountaineers in a period of our history torn by conflict. It balances hunger for fame with stark tragedy, a man's ambition with a father's love. Unsoeld emerges as an American classic, a self-invented genius of adventure to rank with Mark Twain or Will Rogers for sheer attractiveness. Under the close scrutiny of this thrilling story, his heroism turns out to be deeply authentic-as does his suffering.

Sports & Outdoors

Roper, Robert

Mountaineering

St.Martin's Press

In 1963, Willi Unsoeld became an international hero for his conquest of the West Ridge of Everest. A charismatic professor of philosophy, Unsoeld was one of the greatest climbers of the twentiethth century, a man whose raw physical power and casual fearlessness inspired a generation of adventurers. 
In 1976, during an expedition to Nanda Devi, the tallest peak in India, Unsoeld's philosophy of spiritual growth through mortal risk was tragically tested. The outcome of that expedition continues to fuel one of the most fascinating debates in mountaineering history.
Fatal Mountaineer is a gripping look at Willi Unsoeld and the epic climbs that defined him---a classic narrative blending action with ethics, fame with tragedy, a man's ambition with a father's anguish.

Biographies

St. Martin's: Griffin

A young mountaineer in love with another climber faces the ultimate test of her life in the blue ice of the Himalayas

In Caverns of Blue Ice: A Novel

Children's Books

Sierra Club Juveniles

This 2-in-1 storybook featuring two Nickelodeon Dora the Explorer stories about going to the doctor and the dentist is a great read for girls ages 3–7—plus it includes over 50 stickers!

Dora Goes to the Doctor/Dora Goes to the Dentist (Dora the Explorer) (Pictureback)

random-house

Geography & Cultures

Random House Books for Young Readers

An irascible old man wants nothing more that to get away from friends and family and all the interferences in his life so he can do nothing but write. He finds the solution by concocting a sham protest against the logging industry. However, his real agenda is to selfishly satisfy his desire for privacy.He succeeds in his quest for quiet by having his son-in-law build him a platform one hundred and fifty feet up on the side of a giant redwood and takes up residence in this aerie domicile for a period of 100 days.Although excluded from the world below he journeys daily in his mind through remembrances, philosophy, poetry, new discoveries about himself, and speculation about almost everything. He comes down a different man than the one who wanted so desperately to be alone.

Diary Of A Tree Sitter: A Monologue

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

iUniverse, Inc.

Alma Winklegrin's Lower Denture Is Missing is an eclectic collection of short stories and prose works covering a wide variety of humorous and serious subjects as illustrated by titles such as: §Adversity University §A Ride With Grandma §Return Of The Warrior§Apology To A Dead Enemy§Spillane RevisitedAn excerpt from the short story "A Moment In The Sun" portrays the author's poetic style-"He had come to think, to be alone, and let his mind wander, to heal a recent hurt, to feel the bleak disconsolation of a momentary despair " R. R. Roper experiments with unusual variations of fiction ranging from stories that are all dialog to stories that are all narration, a short play, reminiscences, and stories which could be categorized more as tales than short stories. The characters portrayed are truly defined by their very personal idiosyncrasies.

ALMA WINKLEGRIN'S LOWER DENTURE IS MISSING: SHORT STORIES & PROSE WORKS

Humor & Satire

A series of contiguous sketches detail one young man's trip " over fool's hill." Beginning with his first sexual encounter the story progresses through his early adolescence in the war years of World War Two, where he and his friends indulge in a riotous rebellion against authority and the morality of the time. His High School years start his "Trip" in earnest as he and his associates find the joys of booze, cigarettes, and sex and the thrill of bawdy parties.Our young hero's adolescence continues into his twenties when he encounters the freedom of Southern California, all of its temptations, its new experiences, and its milieu of sex, partying and sophomoronic fun.

A Trip Up Fool's Hill: Short Stories Along The Way

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Collects two Dora stories, including ""Dora Goes to the Doctor,"" in which Dora takes a bus to the doctor for a checkup.

Dora Goes to the Doctor / Dora Goes to the Dentist (Deluxe Pictureback)

Turtleback Books

One year in the lives of a handful of people living in a farm county in central California. This is the immediate universe of Royo County, a transcendent novel that recalls the work of John Steinbeck and the "storyness" of Winesburg, Ohio. Seemingly artless as it spins the tales of a small, inbred community, it soars and seduces and expands the imagination, until it becomes unforgettable. Evil is the protagonist, the pervading theme - but an evil as impersonal and inevitable as nature. Robert Roper's characters command us with their simplicity, truth and cruelty. He has caught, with amazing sureness and precision, the rhythms of a primitive town and of those who live off its faithless land, and almost survive. [information scanned from jacket BB]

Royo County

Morrow

The Civil War is seen anew, and a great American family brought to life, in Robert Roper's brilliant evocation of the Family Whitman.
Walt Whitman's work as a nurse to the wounded soldiers of the Civil War had a profound effect on the way he saw the world. Much less well known is the extraordinary record of his younger brother, George Washington Whitman, who led his men in twenty-one major battles―from Antietam to Fredericksburg, Vicksburg to the Wilderness―almost to die in a Confederate prison camp as the fighting ended. Drawing on the searing letters that Walt, George, their mother Louisa, and their other brothers, wrote to each other during the conflict, and on new evidence and new readings of the great poet, Now the Drum of War chronicles the experience of an archetypal American family―from rural Long Island to working-class Brooklyn―enduring its own long crisis alongside the anguish of the nation. Robert Roper has constructed a powerful narrative about America's greatest crucible, and a compelling, braided story of our most original poet and one of our bravest soldiers.

Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Walker Books

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Fatal Mountaineer: The High-Altitude Life and Death of Willi Unsoeld, American Himalayan Legend

Fatal Mountaineer: The High-Altitude Life and Death of Willi Unsoeld, American Himalayan Legend

In Caverns of Blue Ice: A Novel

Dora Goes to the Doctor/Dora Goes to the Dentist (Dora the Explorer) (Pictureback)

Diary Of A Tree Sitter: A Monologue

ALMA WINKLEGRIN'S LOWER DENTURE IS MISSING: SHORT STORIES & PROSE WORKS

A Trip Up Fool's Hill: Short Stories Along The Way

Dora Goes to the Doctor / Dora Goes to the Dentist (Deluxe Pictureback)

Royo County

Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War