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My Time on Everest
Touchstone
May 2014
On Sale: April 20, 2014
352 pages ISBN: 1451694733 EAN: 9781451694734 Kindle: B00BSB2DAA Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
VETERAN WORLD-CLASS CLIMBER and bestselling author Ed
Viesturs—the only American to have climbed all fourteen of
the world’s 8,000-meter peaks and the sixth person to do so
without supplemental oxygen—trains his sights on Mount
Everest, the highest peak on earth, in richly detailed
accounts of expeditions that are by turns personal,
harrowing, deadly, and inspiring. The world’s most famous mountain, Everest remains for
serious high-altitude climbers the ultimate goal. Viesturs
has gone on eleven expeditions to Everest, reaching the
summit seven times. He’s spent more than two years of his
life on the mountain. No climber today is better poised to
survey Everest’s various ascents—both personal and historic.
In The Mountain, Viesturs delivers just that: riveting
you-are-there accounts of his own climbs as well as vivid
narratives of some of the more famous and infamous climbs
throughout the last century, when the honor of nations often
hung in the balance, depending on which climbers summited
first. In addition to his own experiences, Viesturs sheds
light on the fate of Mallory and Irvine, whose 1924
disappearance just 800 feet from the top remains one of
mountaineering’s greatest mysteries, and on the multiply
tragic last days of Rob Hall and Scott Fischer in 1996, the
stuff of which Into Thin Air was made. Informed by the experience of one who has truly been there,
The Mountain affords a rare glimpse into that place on earth
where Heraclitus’s maxim—character is destiny—is proved
time and again. Complete with gorgeous photos of Everest,
many of which were taken by Viesturs himself, and shots
taken on some of the legendary historic climbs, The Mountain
is an immensely appealing book for active and armchair
climbers alike.
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