@article{320631,
      author = {Birkby, Robert.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/320631},
      title = {Mountain madness : Scott Fischer, Mount Everest & a  life lived on high /},
      publisher = {Citadel Press},
      abstract = {Best known as one of the guides who perished on Mount  Everest during the tragic spring of 1996, Scott Fischer  became for many a symbol of audacity, hubris, and the  limits of human endurance. But to those who knew him well,  Scott was much more than an action figure in a modern-day  cautionary tale. Now, a close friend tells who Scott  Fischer really was and what led him to the top of the  world. Scott thrived on the challenges of climbing, the  beauty of the high country, and the like-minded people he  found there. His guide service meshed his need to climb  with his joy in sharing the lofty, rarified realms with  others. Birkby traces Scott's expeditions from the granite  walls of Yosemite to Alaska to the punishing storms of the  Himalayas--a relentless quest for new highs that builds  inexorably to the rendezvous with disaster on  Everest.--From publisher description.},
      recid = {320631},
      pages = {x, 342 p., [16] p. of plates :},
      address = {New York, NY :},
      year = {2008},
}