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Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer, well-known for outdoor and mountain-climbing writing.

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Fergus White, from Dublin Ireland, had wondered for some time how far he might be able to push himself. He pondered if the grand adventures he’d seen on TV and read about in newspapers and books were for some reason off-limits to him. Were feats of daring-do only open to certified explorers, round the world yachtsmen, and ex special-forces?

There was only one way to find out, and clocking in and out of banks as an IT consultant was not going to answer that question.

He travelled to the Himalayas to train as a mountaineer. He returned the following year to attempt Everest. His book, Ascent in Hell, published in 2017, details that adventure.

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Jennifer Hull

Jennifer Hull is a writer and teacher. She grew up in New York, graduated cum laude from Cornell University with a bachelor’s degree in history, and has a master’s degree in education. She has taught K-12 students as well as college freshmen at the University of New Mexico. She lives in New Mexico with her husband, twin sons, and cocker spaniel.

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Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer, well-known for outdoor and mountain-climbing writing.

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Kate Summerscale

Kate Summerscale (born in 1965) is an English writer and journalist.

She won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction in 2008 with The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House and won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1998 (and was shortlisted for the 1997 Whitbread Awards for biography) for the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, about Joe Carstairs, "fastest woman on water."

As a journalist, she worked for The Independent and The Daily Telegraph and her articles have appeared in The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph. She stumbled on the story for The Suspicions of Mr Whicher in an 1890s anthology of unsolved crime stories and became so fascinated that she left her post as literary editor of The Daily Telegra

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Ed Viesturs

Ed Viesturs is America's leading high altitude mountaineer, having climbed many of the world's most challenging summits, including ascending Mount Everest seven times. He recently completed a 16-year quest to climb all 14 of the world's highest mountains (above 8,000 meters) without the use of supplemental oxygen. In doing so, he became the first American and the 5th person in the world to accomplish this. He reached the summit of his 14th peak, Annapurna, on May 12, 2005.

"When I first attempt a Himalayan peak," Viesturs explains, "I climb without bottled oxygen, even if it keeps me from reaching the summit. My personal goal is to see how I can perform, to experience the mountain as it is without reducing it to my level. For me, how I reach

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Anatoli Boukreev

Anatoli Nikolaevich Boukreev was a mountaineer from Russia.

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Peter Zuckerman

Peter Zuckerman is a journalist and author. He has received some of the most prestigious recognitions in American journalism.

At age 26, he won the Livingston Award, the largest, all-media, general reporting prize in America. His writing has also won the National Journalism Award, given by the Scripts Howard Foundation for the best newspaper writing in the United States; and the Blethan Award, given for the best journalism in the northwest. PBS profiled Zuckerman in an hour-long documentary, "In a Small Town," and Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Excellence in Journalism profiled Zuckerman as part of a series about courageous reporting.

Zuckerman has served as visiting faculty at the Poynter Institute, the St. Petersburg, Florida-b

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Donnie Eichar

Author Donne Eichar is an acclaimed director, producer and writer of film and television.

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Andy Hall

Lifelong Alaskan Andy Hall is the author Denali’s Howl, The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America's Wildest Peak, a non-fiction account of the tragic 1967 Wilcox Expedition. Andy lived in Mount McKinley National Park as a child; his father was superintendent there when the accident occurred. Andy holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Alaska Anchorage, and has enjoyed a long career in Alaska as writer and editor, working at several small newspapers and for 16 years as editor and publisher of Alaska magazine and general manager of The Milepost. In addition being an author, he is a commercial salmon fisherman in Cook Inlet and a ski coach at Chugiak High School. He lives in Chugiak Alaska with his wife, Melissa DeVaug

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Daniel Light

Daniel Light grew up in Godalming, a stone’s throw from the family home of George and Ruth Mallory. He has been climbing for twenty years, indoors and out. Dan writes from an office at a climbing wall in East London, where he climbs regularly with his daughters Lola and Ruby. He lives in Hackney.

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Fergus White

Fergus White, from Dublin Ireland, had wondered for some time how far he might be able to push himself. He pondered if the grand adventures he’d seen on TV and read about in newspapers and books were for some reason off-limits to him. Were feats of daring-do only open to certified explorers, round the world yachtsmen, and ex special-forces?

There was only one way to find out, and clocking in and out of banks as an IT consultant was not going to answer that question.

He travelled to the Himalayas to train as a mountaineer. He returned the following year to attempt Everest. His book, Ascent in Hell, published in 2017, details that adventure.

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Jean Muenchrath

AWARD-WINNING FINALIST IN THE 2018 BEST BOOK AWARDS SPONSORED BY THE AMERICAN BOOK FEST; TRAVEL: GUIDES & ESSAYS CATEGORY.

Jean Muenchrath’s insatiable appetite for adventure has taken her on mountain escapades across North and South America and Asia. She loves to explore wild places under the power of her own two feet. She has been a park ranger for over thirty years, led treks in Nepal and Thailand, and worked in Bhutan for the World Wildlife Fund. To balance her outer and inner worlds she spends two months a year in solitary retreat.

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Agata Romaniuk

Socjolożka z doktoratem z Polskiej Akademii Nauk. Absolwentka Polskiej Szkoły Reportażu i założycielka Grupy Reporterskiej Głośniej. W 2017 zainicjowała projekt badawczo-reporterski Światła Małego Miasta, który opisywał życie Polaków w najmniejszych miasteczkach. Publikuje teksty w Dużym Formacie, Przekroju, Piśmie i magazynie Non/Fiction. W maju 2019 ukazała się jej książka reporterska „Z miłości? To współczuję. Opowieści z Omanu”. Jest autorką dwujęzycznej książki dla dzieci pt. „Bal u lamorożca. Polsko-ukraińskie bajki o przyjaźni” wydanej przez Zygzaki.

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Jennifer Hull

Jennifer Hull is a writer and teacher. She grew up in New York, graduated cum laude from Cornell University with a bachelor’s degree in history, and has a master’s degree in education. She has taught K-12 students as well as college freshmen at the University of New Mexico. She lives in New Mexico with her husband, twin sons, and cocker spaniel.

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Monika Białkowska

Doktor teologii fundamentalnej, dziennikarka „Przewodnika Katolickiego”, autorka internetowego programu „Reportaż z wycinków świata”.

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Abbott Kahler

This author is also published under Karen Abbott

Abbott Kahler, formerly writing as Karen Abbott, is the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City; American Rose; Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy; and The Ghosts of Eden Park. She is also the host of Remus: The Mad Bootleg King, a podcast about legendary Jazz Age bootlegger George Remus. A native of Philadelphia, she lives in New York City and in Greenport, New York.

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Svetlana Oss

Svetlana Oss (Osadchuk) is a Russian writer and investigative journalist. She has published numerous articles in The Moscow Times, The St.Petersburg Times and in The New York Times. In 2012 Russian leading publisher EKSMO published her first full-length fiction: 'One Life Narrative". Svetlana has a passion for investigating Soviet era mysteries, and transforming them into easy to read, exciting, yet informative literary work.

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Peter Zuckerman

Peter Zuckerman is a journalist and author. He has received some of the most prestigious recognitions in American journalism.

At age 26, he won the Livingston Award, the largest, all-media, general reporting prize in America. His writing has also won the National Journalism Award, given by the Scripts Howard Foundation for the best newspaper writing in the United States; and the Blethan Award, given for the best journalism in the northwest. PBS profiled Zuckerman in an hour-long documentary, "In a Small Town," and Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Excellence in Journalism profiled Zuckerman as part of a series about courageous reporting.

Zuckerman has served as visiting faculty at the Poynter Institute, the St. Petersburg, Florida-b

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Robert H. Edwards

Bob Edwards studied mathematics at Cambridge University, and earned his MSc and PhD from the London School of Economics. Since 1990 he has owned and managed his own economic research consultancy. He has lived in Canada, Dubai, England, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Taiwan and Transylvania. He holds a private pilot’s license and has experience in fixed-wing, hang-gliding, microlights and parachuting. He survived spin training, engine failure, forced landing, a hang-glider crash, and a tangle with the shroud lines. Now that he is older but not wiser, he does more dangerous things, such as writing books on great modern mysteries, and acting for film and television under the screen name Robert Isaac Harker.

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Paul Beaver

Paul Beaver worked for five years on Jane's Defence Weekly, including spells as Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, and has operated as a freelance war correspondent for Sky News in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Sierra Leone. He has written over 50 books on military history, including most recently Spitfire People (2015). He spent 27 years in Army Air Corps Reserves, is a qualified pilot, and is now Honorary Group Captain of No 601 (County of London) Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force.

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Doug K. Scott

Douglas Keith Scott CBE, known as Doug Scott, is an English mountaineer noted for the first ascent of the south-west face of Mount Everest on 24 September 1975. Scott and Dougal Haston were the first Britons to climb Everest during this expedition. In receiving one of mountaineering's highest honours, the Lifetime Achievement Piolet d'Or, his personal style and climbs were described as "visionary".

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Ejnar Mikkelsen

Ejnar Mikkelsen (1880-1971) was a Danish polar explorer and writer. He is most known for his expeditions to Greenland.

Works:
- Conquering the Arctic Ice (London, 1909)
- Lost in the Arctic (1913) - some of his Greenland expeditions are recounted here
- Mylius-Erichsen's Report on the Non-Existence of Peary's Channel (1913)
- Tre Aar par Grönlands Ostkyst (1914)
- Nord-syd-øst-vest (1917)
- Norden For Lov og Ret, a story (1920), translated as Frozen Justice (1922)
- John Dale, a novel (1921)
- Farlig Tomansfaerd (1955), translated as Two Against the Ice (1957).

Awards:
- 1933 Hans Egede Medal of the Royal Danish Geographical Society
- 1935 Patron's Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society.

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Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary KG ONZ KBE was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt. From 1985 to 1988 he served as New Zealand's High Commissioner to India and Bangladesh and concurrently as Ambassador to Nepal.

Hillary became interested in mountaineering while in secondary school. He made his first major climb in 1939, reaching the summit of Mount Ollivier. He served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force as a navigator during World War II. Prior to the Everest expedition, Hillary had been part of the B

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Jan Urban

Journalist and pedagogue.

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John Glenn

John Herschel Glenn, Jr. was a former United States Marine Corps pilot, astronaut and United States senator who was the first American to orbit the Earth and third American in space. Glenn was a Marine Corps fighter pilot before joining NASA's Mercury program as a member of NASA's original astronaut group. He orbited the Earth in Friendship 7 in 1962. After retiring from NASA, he entered politics as a Democrat and represented Ohio in the United States Senate from 1974 to 1999.

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Hermann Buhl

Austrian mountaineer and is considered one of the best climbers of all time.

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Lyle Closs

I started writing when I was 15, about the time I started climbing. I have written and published four books on Amazon: articles on climbing and mountaineering; a Western; a historical fiction about Tasmanian convict cannibals; and a non-fiction about an expedition to K2. Now focusing on literary fiction.

I read history and literature. My favourite books include Lermontov's A Hero of our Time, Tolstoy's The Cossacks, Kerouac's On the Road, Miller's Black Spring, Dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and Sholokov's And Quiet Flows the Don.

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Hidden Wounds is a literary late life love story if you can excuse the alliteration.

Head Wounds is a novella describing a polar bear attack and the horrifying aftermath.

My climbing-related stor

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