In this powerful debut story collection, veteran travel write and
climber Daniel Arnold brings to life the men and women complete
with their scars and dark corners whose lives are defined by the
mountains they climb. The characters who populate Snowblind are
obsessed with the jagged beauty and driven by the physical ricks of
dangerous summits. Their climbs end not on heights, but in the
psychological aftermath, when their compulsions crash back into
reality.Deep in Alaska, a fanatic soloist seeks her way back
through the wilderness when her pilot fails to pick her up after a
triumphant climb. In a climbers' hostel in Argentina, a young
mountaineer tries to explain abandoning his fallen partner in a
blizzard on Aconcagua. On K2, an anarchist fails to fit in on a
modern Himalayan expedition with disastrous results. Tension fills
Arnold's stories, both from the finely crafted, sweaty-palmed drama
of the climbs he imagines, and also from the cracks that open in
each of his characters' psyches.Snowblind is a dose of old world
adventure writing made modern for a new generation fascinated by
the mystique of climbing. For both serious climbers and those who
may never tie onto a rope the thrill of these stories, complete
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