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Tales of adventure are hotter than ever in America's bookstores.
From climbing mountains in exotic locales to tales of being lost at sea, the appetite is almost insatiable. With readers gobbling up everything they can get their hands on, a pair of mountaineering filmmakers have shucked their cameras and turned on their laptops to cash in on the craze. On the other hand, British filmmaker Matt Dickinson had never climbed higher than 20,000 feet when he reached the top of Everest in 1996. Both authors are riding the adventure sport wave into uncharted waters, at least for them. It's something that's got hold of the national psyche, but it's not something created by the books.