The Mountain: My Time on Everest

The Mountain: My Time on Everest

In national bestseller The Mountain, world-renowned climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs and cowriter David Roberts paint a vivid portrait of obsession, dedication, and human achievement in a true love letter to the worldâ€™s highest peak.

In The Mountain, veteran world-class climber and bestselling author Ed Viestursâ€”the only American to have climbed all fourteen of the worldâ€™s 8,000-meter peaksâ€”trains his sights on Mount Everest in richly detailed accounts of expeditions that are by turns personal, harrowing, deadly, and inspiring.

The highest mountain on earth, Everest remains the ultimate goal for serious high-altitude climbers. Viesturs has gone on eleven expeditions to Everest, spending more than two years of his life on the mountain and reaching the summit seven times. No climber today is better poised to survey Everestâ€™s various ascentsâ€”both personal and historic. Viesturs sheds light on the fate of Mallory and Irvine, whose 1924 disappearance just 800 feet from the summit remains one of mountaineeringâ€™s greatest mysteries, as well as 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 Heraclitusâ€™s maximâ€”â€œCharacter is destinyâ€â€”is proved time and again.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Touchstone
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber FLPK9781451694741
ReleaseDate 2014-04-29
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781451694741

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Touchstone
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	FLPK9781451694741
ReleaseDate	2014-04-29
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781451694741

The Mountain: My Time on Everest

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