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What the climbing press says about In the Zone, November 25, 1997
By A Customer
Reviews of In the Zone In The Zone chronicles some of the greatest mountaineering survival stories ever told. Like a great novel, we emerge from our experience transformed, with a new reverence for the limits of human endeavor and will. Potterfield takes us to a place climbers hope never to visit, where the hold on survival is tenuous.
--Rock & Ice Magazine Forget the hype about the new "extreme" sports; mountaineering has been around for centuries and is clearly the most extreme of all. It's hard to beat Peter Potterfield's harrowing In the Zone, an account of three deadly climbs.
--Men's Journal A journalist and able story teller, Potterfield recounts three harrowing tales: Colby Coombs' struggle to live after a deadly avalanche on Alaska's Mount Foraker in 1992, Scott Fischer's near-death experience on K2, and his own fall and nail-biting rescue that followed. Fischer's experience is arguably the most compelling, as Fischer is dead and the climbing world wants to understand why. Poignant, horrifying . . . .
--Outside Potterfield's matter-of-fact style gets you right into the climber's head. I loved this story [Colby Coombs'] and could not put it down. Potterfield does a good job of mixing direct quotes with his own insights . . . . [He] captures the dangers of Himalayan climbing, but even more interesting are his insights into the mentality required for such extreme risk.
--Climbing Magazine A compelling, troubling look at the dark side of mountaineering.
--Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild Expertise and personal experience meet in these three harrowing tales of close calls in the mountains, from a veteran mountaineering writer.
--Seattle Weekly Tense and descriptive. . . a trilogy of true accounts of near-death experiences.
--Eugene Register Guard Journalist and climber Potterfield shows Scott Fischer at his courageous and athletic prime. . . that foreshadows this year's Everest deaths. For the reader, it is a mixture of fascination and agony.
--Chicago Tribune/Universal Press Syndicate In the Zone is riveting reading . . .
--Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph A white-knuckle volume of gruesome stories . . . Not for the squeamish, these are harrowing tales of broken survivors dangling beside corpses, of shattered bodies inching along for miles in blinding agony, of confident expeditions from which only one climber returns.
--The Santa Fe New Mexican In the zone is a masterful account of three extraordinary humans and a fascinating depiction of the struggle for survival . . . a gripping trilogy.
--Adventurous Traveler Three contemporary survival stories, one of renowned guide Scott Fischer who was not denied the summit of K2. Such tenacity in the face of danger typifies Potterfield's prose style, also infusing his other tales of survival. Armchair mountaineers will discover here insights into why mountaineers take such risks.
--Booklist The message from these stories of human drama is clear: think and choose before the climb, not at the onset of trouble.
--John Roskelley, author of Stories Off the Wall
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