Master of thin air: life and death on the world's highest peaks

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Named one of the #x93;Five Adventure Books You Need to Read This Summer" by Backpacker Magazine For readers of Into Thin Air, riveting high-altitude drama and the passion and drive that inspire outsized mountaineering achievements. Master of Thin Air opens with a fall that the author very nearly could not stop down an almost vertical rock ramp leading to a three-thousand-foot drop. The qualities that saved him then on K2#x97;in addition to his mountaineering know-how and sheer good luck#x97;drove his sixteen-year journey to summit all of the world's eight-thousanders, the fourteen peaks that exceed 8,000.;Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; The 8000ers; Map; Foreword by Peter Hillary; Prologue: July 30, 1993; 1 Beginnings; 2 A Taste of Thin Air; 3 The Savage Mountain; 4 Frustration; 5 Turning the Key; 6 Summits and Betrayals; 7 A Dream Realised; 8 A Higher Goal; 9 High-Altitude Hollywood; 10 Good Days and Bad; 11 A Big Day Out; 12 The Most Dangerous Mountain in the World; 13 Getting Close; 14 Finish Line; 15 The Next Step; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; Glossary of Mountaineering Terms; Index; Photos.