'Scott of the Antarctic' lives on because he died.
Don't wish that on Steve.
Whereas the Shackleton story lived on because no-one died, at a time when WW1 was raging.
The 'Bicycling' story reads like a film treatment. Hollywood would put in some degree of estrangement between Kurt and his kids to effect a climactic reconciliation, but there's jeopardy in the middle, and subsidiary characters with story arcs of their own have been introduced.
There's also the 'Sleepless in Seattle' angle, an epistolatory element, contained in these pages. Articles on Steve referred to the 'community' that was supporting him, and how he was staying with hosts. Steve's said that there were problems associated with that, largely around the kit he needed to carry with him, and his need to ignore the niceties of hospitality, i.e just crash out.
During one of the interviews at the Mersey Roads, Steve said that the longest conversations that he'd had recently with anyone outside his team were at that event. From 9 minutes in this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJES8l1YwoI While these conversations about him fill page after page.