Audiobook Sample: Eiger Dreams - Jon Krakauer

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Six Club Denali before they'll let you climb Mount mckinley. The rangers who oversee mountaineering in Denali National Park, make you sit through a tape and slide presentation depicting the perils of venturing onto the highest mountain in North America in much the same way that the army before granting off base passes to new recruits shows them films depicting the ravages of venereal disease. The 10 minute Denali show runs heavily to images of thundering avalanches, storm flattened tents, hands deformed by horrible frostbite blisters and grotesquely twisted bodies being pulled from the depths of enormous crevasses like the military's V D movies. The Denali show is graphic enough to make even the thickest skin crawl as a tool for promoting sensible behavior. It would appear that it's also just as ineffective.