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Summit Fever
Andrew Greig
A poet goes on a Himalayan expedition and writes about it like a poet — not a climber. The mountain is Mustagh Tower; the subject is what happens to a mind at altitude.
Mountains & Climbing
Memoir
Himalaya
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Publisher
Mountaineer Books
Published
2005
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