Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains - Jon Krakauer I haven't climbed any mountains. I have hiked the Grand Canyon, but that was climbing down, not up. I don't like heights. In fact, one time, my family and I went up some mountain on one of those cable car things. My hands were sweating so badly that the cover of the book I was reading came off the book. And it was the first time I was reading the book.So I'm not a mountain climber.Yet, I like reading Jon Krakauer. He makes you cold when he talks about the mountians. He really does. This book is a collection of essays, including one done for this collection (intersting, that is the only one I didn't like). While Krakauer doesn't really try to find the reason for why people think it is fun to climb frozen waterfalls, he is amazing good at describing it. In this book, he covers K2, famous climbers, Mont Blanc, and Mount McKinley.