by Jon Krakauer · Ediciones Península · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483072578
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«Sueños del Eiger» is a collection of mountain stories by Jon Krakauer, published by Ediciones Península in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).
The book brings together stories about the world of mountaineering and portraits of climbers, from minimalist practitioners to thrill-seekers. Krakauer examines the addiction to risk, the relationship with a hostile nature, and the psychology of those who take on extreme challenges in the mountains, paying attention to both successes and failures.
It is volume 1 of the Límites collection from Ediciones Península. The English title is «Eiger dreams. Ventures among men and mountains» and the translation is by Juan Pedro Campos Gómez.
Aimed at lovers of adventure, climbing, and mountain literature, and at readers who already know Jon Krakauer's work.
Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer. He is the author of bestselling nonfiction books—Into the Wild; Into Thin Air; Under the Banner of Heaven; and Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman—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, which would become the subject of Into Thin Air.
