Over the Top
Three looks at the lives -- and deaths -- of risk-taking mountain climbers.
Reviewed by Grace Lichtenstein
Sunday, January 15, 2006; Page BW09
BREAKING TRAIL
A Climbing Life
  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") |
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
