Clint Willis has published more than forty books, including award-winning anthologies on topics such as adventure, politics, religion, and war. His writing has appeared in hundreds of publications, including Men's Journal, Money, Outside and the New York Times. The American Society of Magazine Editors nominated his three-part series on investing for a 1997 National Magazine Award in the category of Personal Service. Clint has been a climber since he was ten years old. He lives with his family in Maine.

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from The Associated Press
Author Clint Willis climbs along the bluffs by the Atlantic ocean in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, Jan. 9, 2007. Willis' book "The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation," chronicles the extreme mountaineering pioneered by a ragtag band of climbers, most of them British, who brought their sport to a new level in the three decades following the conquest of Everest. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach) (Pat Wellenbach).

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