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These essays and many of the accompanying illustrations originally appeared on Semi-Rad.com. A version of the story The Greatest Mountaineering Survival Story Never Told appeared in the Mountain Gazette in 2009.

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ISBN (paperback): 978-1-68051-270-0

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