Climb: Stories of Survival From Rock, Snow and Ice

The best of this was H.G. Wells' story "Little Mother Up the Morderberg". What a fun ride up and down a mountain.......more

An amazingly varied anthology covering 100+ years of writing devoted to climbing, with humor and heartfelt emotion vying with adventure and page-turning fear in the mountains. I’ll be sending my copy to the friend who first showed me a carabiner and a belay rope. Climbing may not be for everyone but......more

This book is a mixed bag. It is nice to have short, episodic writing in relation to mountains and Alpinism, however, there is little that makes the volume a consistent package. There is no overarching motif and therefore one story crashes into another's tone thoughtlessly. Therefore it is not so muc......more

"There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell; and with these in mind I say, climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of......more