Eiger Dreams

Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains is a non-fiction collection of articles and essays by Jon Krakauer on mountaineering and rock climbing. Eleven out of twelve of the chapters were initially published between 1982 and 1989 in the magazines Outside, Smithsonian, and New Age Journal.

It concerns a variety of topics, from ascending the Eiger Nordwand in the Swiss Alps, Denali in Alaska or K2 in the Karakoram, to the well-known rock climbers Jon Krakauer has met on his trips, such as John Gill, Adrian Popovich or the Burgess brothers, Adrian and Alan. He also describes other extreme sports, such as canyoneering and climbing frozen waterfalls.

Chapters of the book

Jon Krakauer

Books	Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains (1990) Into the Wild (1996) Into Thin Air (1997) Under the Banner of Heaven (2003) Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman (2009) Three Cups of Deceit (2011)

Film and television adaptations	Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (1997) Into the Wild (2007) Everest (2015)

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