Fatal Mountaineer

Fatal Mountaineer

Robert Roper's biography of Willi Unsoeld — the man who traversed Everest via the West Ridge, named his daughter after the mountain, and died on Mount Rainier. A life lived at the edge of every possible boundary.
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Publisher St. Martin's Press
Published 2002
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