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"One of the best accounts of true high mountain adventure ever written." -Trevanian, bestselling author of The Eiger Sanction"One of the most dramatic rescues in mountaineering history." -Jim Wickwire, Everest climber and coauthor of Addicted to Danger In the heart of the Swiss Alps stand the... read more
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Fritz von Almen, thirty-nine years old, serious of mien, conservative of dress, walked onto a tiny side porch of his family's hotel, 6,700 feet up in the Swiss Alps, and sat in front of a swivel-mounted pair of binoculars aimed at a towering mountain wall across the meadows.
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- Jack Olsen (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 796
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