Addicted to Danger

James M. Tabor picks the five most riveting first-person accounts of man vs. nature:

1. In the Amazon Jungle by Algot Lange (1912)
2. Shackleton's Boat Journey by F.A. Worsley (1933)
3. The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1922)
4. K2: The Savage Mountain by Charles S. Houston and Robert H. Bates (1954)
5. Minus 148° by Art Davidson (1969)

All still in print. I notice that Jim Wickwire wrote the introduction to the latest edition of K2. Greg loaned me his memoir Addicted to Danger last year; its amazing cover photo is from our own Mount Hood.

Two addenda: Don't miss the panorama from the top of Everest which I linked to a few weeks back, and also the article in yesterday's Mail Tribune about the two Rogue Valley natives, Brian Smith and Ted Anderson, who just bumped into each other at the base camp on Everest.