Mountain Culture

Robert Birkby
Mountain Madness: Scott Fischer, Mount Everest and a Life Lived on High

Friday, November 7
Donald Cameron Hall

Best known as one of the guides who perished near the summit of Mount Everest during the tragic spring of 1996, Scott Fischer became for many an iconic 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 at the heart of a modern-day cautionary tale. In a vivid, candid biography, Robert Birkby—one of Fischer’s close friends—gives us a fascinating, in-depth portrait of who Scott Fischer really was and what led him to the top of the world. A captivating homage to a man who eagerly went where few dare to go, Mountain Madness is an extraordinary account of courage, passion, and extreme living.