The author of Eiger Dreams was part of an ill fated expedition to where?
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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".
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Jon Krakauer Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer, primarily known for his writings about the outdoors, especially mountain-climbing. He is the author of best-selling non-fiction books—"Into the Wild", "Into Thin Air", "Under the Banner of Heaven", and ""—as well as numerous magazine articles. He was a member of an ill-fated expedition to summit Mount Everest in 1996, one of the deadliest disasters in the history of climbing Everest.
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Friedrich Adolph Wislizenus Friedrich Adolph Wislizenus (first name sometimes spelled Frederick) (21 May 1810, Königsee – 23 September 1889) was a German-born American MD, explorer and botanist. He is best known for his printed recollections from travels to Northern Mexico and today's state of New Mexico.
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Into Thin Air Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster is a 1997 bestselling non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. It details the author's presence at Mount Everest during the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, when eight climbers were killed and several others were stranded by a "rogue storm". The author's expedition was led by the famed guide Rob Hall, and there were other groups trying to summit on the same day, including one led by Scott Fischer, whose guiding agency, Mountain Madness, was perceived as a competitor to Rob Hall's agency, Adventure Consultants.
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Ferenc Máté Ferenc Máté (born 1945 in Hungary) escaped Hungary after the revolution with his mother to Vancouver, British Columbia. He has lived in British Columbia, California, New York City, Paris, and Rome, and now resides on a wine estate in Tuscany with his wife, painter and winemaker Candace Máté, and their son, Peter. For much of their first twenty years together, Máté and his wife lived on sailboats, traveling the world, photographing and occasionally publishing books and calendars on sailboats. His first book, "From a Bare Hull", 1970, is still considered one of the best books on boat-building ever written. In addition to sailing books, Máté has written a memoir about adjusting to Italian life, an international bestseller "The Hills of Tuscany", and a book-length essay on the environmental impact of the excesses of modern lifestyles, "A Reasonable Life". His first novel, "Ghost Sea" (W. W. Norton, 2006) is the first of a series of anthropological thrillers involving an outlaw sea captain, Dugger. He is now writing the next volume, "Sea of Lost Dreams", set in Tahiti. In 2007, he published "A Vineyard in Tuscany", which tells the Máté's story of renovating a 13th-century house and starting a now world-renowned winery.
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Hans Blohm Hans-Ludwig Blohm, C.M. (born November 12, 1927 in Rendsburg, Germany) is a photographer and author. Over three decades, he has criss-crossed the Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska, capturing images and stories of the Inuit. He has driven 16 times from his home in Ottawa to different parts of the North logging from 20 500 to 25 000 km each trip. He has driven the Mackenzie Ice Road to Tuktoyaktuk on the Beaufort Sea at three occasions and has explored by sailboat the remote, uninhabited fjords of Labrador.
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Knut Frænkel Knut Hjalmar Ferdinand Frænkel (born 14 February 1870, died probably at the end of October 1897) was a Swedish engineer and arctic explorer who perished in the Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 of S. A. Andrée in 1897.
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Invasion of the Sea Invasion of the Sea (French: "L'Invasion de la mer" ) is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne. It was published in 1905, the last to be published in the author's lifetime, and describes the exploits of Berber nomads and European travelers in Saharan Africa. The European characters arrive to study the feasibility of flooding a low-lying region of the Sahara desert to create an inland sea and open up the interior of Northern Africa to trade. In the end, however, the protagonists' pride in humanity's potential to control and reshape the world is humbled by a cataclysmic earthquake which results in the natural formation of just such a sea.
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Holger Kersten Holger Kersten (born 1951) is a German writer on myth, legend, religion and esoteric subjects. He is best known for the books about Jesus' early years and later years in India. In 2005 he led an expedition looking for the birthplace of Mithras.
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A Frozen Dream A Frozen Dream ("En frusen dröm") is a documentary film released in 1997 as a followup to the 1982 Swedish movie "Flight of the Eagle", both directed by Jan Troell. The documentary describes the ill-fated attempt to fly over the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon by Salomon August Andrée in 1897.
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Marie Vassiltchikov Marie Illarionovna Vassiltchikov (Russian: Мария Илларионовна Васильчикова ; 11 January 1917 – 12 August 1978) was a Russian princess who wrote "Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945", which described the effects of the bombing of Berlin and events leading to the attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler in the 20 July Plot.
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The Terrors of Ice and Darkness The Terrors of Ice and Darkness (German: Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis ) is a 1984 novel by the Austrian writer Christoph Ransmayr. It tells the stories of the 1872–74 Austro-Hungarian North Pole expedition, of a young Italian man who disappeared in 1981 while researching the expedition, and of the narrator, who tries to figure out what happened to the Italian.
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Kurt Eisner Kurt Eisner ] (14 May 186721 February 1919) was a journalist and theatre critic. As a socialist journalist, he organised the Socialist Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy in Bavaria in November 1918.
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Benjamin Morrell Benjamin Morrell (July 5, 1795 – 1838 or 1839?) was an American sea captain, explorer and trader who made a number of voyages, mainly to the Atlantic, the Southern Ocean and the Pacific Islands. In a ghost-written memoir, "A Narrative of Four Voyages", which describes his sea-going life between 1823 and 1832, Morrell included numerous claims of discovery and achievement, many of which have been disputed by geographers and historians, and in some cases have been proved false. He ended his career as a fugitive, having wrecked his ship and misappropriated parts of the salvaged cargo.
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Italian Journey Italian Journey (in the German original: "Italienische Reise" ] ) is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's report on his travels to Italy from 1786–88, published in 1816–17. The book is based on Goethe's diaries. It is smoothed in style, lacking the spontaneity of his diary report, and augmented with the addition of afterthoughts and reminiscences.
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Karin Muller Karin Muller (born June 8, 1965) is a Swiss-born author, filmmaker, photographer, and adventurer.
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The Berrybender Narratives The Berrybender Narratives is a series of novels written by Larry McMurtry. It tells the story of an ill-fated hunting expedition lasting several years and covering much of the early American West. As with much of McMurtry's Western fiction, it weaves a tale of bloody adventure with a sort of ghastly dark humor.
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Henry M. Eichner Henry M. Eichner (1909–1971) was an American medical artist, illustrator and writer. He did covers and illustrations for the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society's magazine "Shangri L'Affaires". His nonfiction book on Atlantis, "Atlantean Chronicles", was published by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in 1971.
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Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen Friedrich Percival Reck-Malleczewen (August 11, 1884 – February 16, 1945) was a German author. His best-known work is Diary of a Man in Despair, a journal in which he expressed his passionate opposition to Adolf Hitler and Nazism. He was eventually arrested by the Nazis and died of typhus at the Dachau concentration camp.
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Edward Hoagland Edward Hoagland (born December 21, 1932) is an American author best known for his nature and travel writing.
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The Flight to France The Flight to France (French: "Le Chemin de France" , 1887) is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne about a fictional French Army Captain Natalis Delpierre, with a setting in the year 1792 just before the French Revolutionary Wars. Several English language editions were published with the subtitle, "The Flight to France; or, The Memoirs of a Dragoon. A Tale of the Day of Dumouriez."
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Through the Valley of the Kwai Through the Valley of the Kwai (also published under the titles "Miracle on the River Kwai" and "To End All Wars") is the autobiography of a Scottish captain named Ernest Gordon and recounts the experiences of faith and hope of the men held in a Japanese prisoner of war labour camp, building the Burma Railway during the last three and a half years of World War II.