Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Andrea Cardona, Annabelle Bond, Anna Czerwi ska, Britton Keeshan, Cecilie Skog, Charles Corfield, Constantin L c tu u, Doug Scott, Eric Blakeley, Erik Weihenmayer, Fyodor Konyukhov, Jake Meyer, Jin Feibao, Joby Ogwyn, Junko Tabei, Leszek Cichy, Li Zhixin, Nasuh Mahruki, Park Young Seok, Patrick Morrow, Pavel Bem, Rebecca Stephens (climber), Richard Bass, Richard Parks, Rob Hall, Ronald Naar, Samantha Larson, Sandy Hill (mountaineer), Stipe Bo i, Vladas Vitkauskas, Wang Yongfeng, Yasuko Namba. Excerpt: Stipe Bo i (born 2 January 1951) is a Croatian mountaineer, documentary filmmaker, photographer and writer. He is the most successful Croatian Himalayan climber. Bo i completed the Seven Summits and is the second European, after Reinhold Messner, to climb the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest, twice. He has directed more than 60 documentary films, mostly related to mountains and climbing. Bo i was born in the village of Zavojane near Vrgorac (at the time SR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia). When he finished elementary school, he moved with his parents and sister to Split, where his father, a winegrower, found a job as a driver. In Split, Bo i enrolled in a high school, joined the scouts, and started with mountain climbing. His parents, who were rather strict, did not approve, and did not accept his hobby until much later, after reading about their son's achievements in the newspapers. After finishing high school, Bo i worked as an electrician on an ocean liner, but quit his job as soon as he saved enough money to buy climbing gear. Bo i 's first notable Himalayan climb was the 1979 ascent to Mount Everest as a member of the Yugoslav expedition that used a previously unclimbed West Ridge route, known today as the Slovenian Route. A similar path was chosen by a 1974 French expedition that ended in...