* Stories from the world's most experienced and respected climbers
* Selections are united by a single compelling theme

Courage & Misfortune includes some of the best in mountaineering adventures excerpted from The Mountaineers Books library of climbing adventures. Sitting down with this anthology will either help you find the classic literature that you'll want to read in their entirity or it will give you all the mountaineering literature you'll ever desire to read in this one volume. If you find yourself somewhere inbetween, go get one of the other mountaineering anthologies from Mountaineers Books. There were too many good stories to confine them to just one.

Courage & Misfortune includes climbing adventures from H.W. Tilman and Eric Shipton to Mark Twight and John Sherman. Some of the world's most accomplished climbers and writers make their literary home with The Mountaineers Books. .