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Risking Adventure: Mountaineering Journeys Around the World (Raincoast Journeys)

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The only thing lacking with this book is that the stories seem too short to fully capture the magnitude of Jim's trips. After reading Greg Child's "Thin Air" I was spoiled and expected to be drawn into adventures for more than the 1/2 hour it took me to read each chapter. It almost seems like these stories were written for National Geographic...

Worth reading, if not only to whet your appetite!

Canadian climber/photographer and author Jim Haberl was killed last week outside of Anchorage, Alaska. He is Alaska's twelfth victim of an avalanche this year. Interest in his book should increase and I am no exception. I especially want to read his book now that the thing he loved the most has claimed his life. He was 41 years old.

You need no experience of mountaineering to enjoy and appriciate this book . Lavishly illustraited it tells some compelling , funny and most importantly exciting stories that really get you involved , a top read!

Jim Haberl's second book 'Risking Adventure', details five personal accounts of climbs/treks around the world. You need not be a climber to enjoy this book; Jim's a natural storyteller, and you will experience suspense, joy, sadness, and laughter. The photography, also Jim's, is incredible, and provides further insight to the extremes Jim has experienced.