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Anderl Heckmair

My Life, Eiger North Face, Grand Jorasses, and Other Adventures

Anderl Heckmair( )
Author: Heckmair, Anderl
Translator: Carruthers, Tim
Foreword by: Messner, Reinhold
ISBN:978-0-89886-846-3
Publication Date:Oct 2002
Publisher:Mountaineers Books, The
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $24.95
Book Description:

Anderl Heckmair: My Life is a fresh translation of thenewly expanded and updated classic memoir, My Life as aMountaineer. Heckmair revisits his early childhood,recalling that he was so delicate his mother literallypacked him in cotton wool for his first few years. Hetalks about his family's financial difficulties,culminating with his ......

Book Details
Pages:304
Detailed Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Mountaineering
Biography & Autobiography / Cultural & Regional
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.36 x 9.36 x 0.86 Inches
Book Weight:1.342 Pounds
Author Biography
Heckmair, Anderl (Author)
Since 1969, Reinhold Messner has gone on more than one hundred expeditions to the mountains and deserts of the earth. Recognized as one of the greatest mountaineers of all time, Messner does without expansion bolts, oxygen masks, or satellite phones. He has achieved a great many first ascents, conquered all fourteen of the worlds 8,000-meter peaks, succeeded in traversing Greenland, and provided an answer to the mystery of the Yeti. He is the author of Everest, The Crystal Horizon, Free Spirit, Antarctica, To the Top of the World, and All 14 Eight-Thousanders, among other titles. He lives with his family in the South Tyrol in Italy.



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