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Into Hot Air

Just saw this over at besthike.com's blog...
into hot air

"Former SNL funnyman Chris Elliot has just published a new book called “Into Hot Air: Mounting Mount Everest,” a send-up of Outside Editor at Large Jon Krakauer’s famous work of nearly the same name. The book imagines it wasn’t Hillary and Tenzing Norgay who first bagged Everest’s summit, but Elliot’s adventurous and stone-crazy Great Uncle Percy Brackett Elliott..."

Well there goes my idea... the "Naked Gun" of the climbing world. Guess I'll have to go to plan B... "Up Shite Creek" a paddling story for people with incontinence issues.

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  1. I don't know if it's a comedy book or the start of a great alpine conspiracy theory...I knew it! Wolfgang Gullich was a pickle maker!

    Posted by gonzobeer | December 10, 2007, 1:17 am

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