About This Book
No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska's not...
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Reading Time Estimates
5h 24m
slow reader
180 WPM
3h 53m
average reader
250 WPM
2h 47m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 58,300 words📅 8 days at 30 min/day
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Reading time
3 h 53 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
4 h 19 min
at 1.5x narration speed
Audio 1x
6 h 29 min
Audio 2x
3 h 14 min
That's about:
- 📅8 days reading 30 min/day
- 🚇8 commutes of 30 min each


