Facing The Extreme
Subtitle: One Woman's Tale of True Courage, Death-Defying Survival and Her Quest For The Summit
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: December 15, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780312179427
Subjects: True stories of endurance & survival; Mountain Climbing; Sports & Recreation; Biography / Autobiography; Sports; Mountaineering; Sports - General; Women; Sports & Recreation / Motor Sports; Alaska; Biography; History; Kocour, Ruth Anne; McKinley, Mount; United States; Women mountaineers
First sentence: It is hard to celebrate life when one is surrounded by death, imprisoned by a raging storm on the side of a mountain that some assert is the most dangerous summit in the world.