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Fatal Mountaineer
Robert Roper
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.
Mountains & Climbing
Biography
Pacific Northwest
Buy at Bookshop.org
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Published
2002
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