Over the Top
Arlene Blum on a reconnaissance trip of Annapurna in 1977. She successfully climbed the Himalayan summit the following year.
(By Richard Isherwood From "Breaking Trail")
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Reviewed by Grace Lichtenstein
Sunday, January 15, 2006
BREAKING TRAIL
A Climbing Life
By Arlene Blum
Scribner. 313 pp. $27.50
ON THE RIDGE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH
A Climbing Life Reexamined
By David Roberts
Simon & Schuster. 414 pp. $26
SNOWSTRUCK
In the Grip of Avalanches
By Jill Fredston
Harcourt. 342 pp. $24
