About a Swede who biked from Sweden to Mt. Everest towing all of his supplies, then climbed Everest without supplemental oxygen (a nearly impossible task). There was a ghost writer who apparently did most of the writing, then it was translated into English by another party. His expedition occurred in 1996, at the same time as the events chronicled in Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. Considering the magnitude of his feat, the book is written rather breezily and it covers large portions of time in a few short pages. By the time Kropp started climbing Everest though, I couldn't help but be drawn into the adventure and ended up admiring him. After a bit of research I discovered the sad information that he died climbing a mountain in Washington state in 2002. It's too bad, because it seems he was a good guy and became a bit of a philanthropist after his climb of Everest. He wasn't exactly rich so its admirable that he used his success to help others.
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