The Mammoth Book of On the Edge

An anthology of climbing adventures

Presenting first-hand accounts of climbs on the great peaks and big walls of
five continents, spanning an arc in time from the new alpinism of the 1930s to
the present, On the Edge is a book about the furthest reaches of human daring
and endurance. In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Anatoli
Boukreev’s The Climb, Jon E. Lewis takes the reader into the depleted zone of
extreme mountaineering. Presenting first-hand accounts of climbs on the great
peaks and big walls of five continents, spanning an arc in time from the new
alpinism of the 1930s to the present, On the Edge is a book about the furthest
reaches of human daring and endurance.