The Next Everest

Author : Jim Davidson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250272300

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The Next Everest by Jim Davidson Pdf

A dramatic account of the deadly avalanche on Everest—and a return to reach the summit. On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet. It was the largest earthquake in Nepal in eighty-one years and killed nearly 8,900 people. That day also became the deadliest in the history of Everest, with eighteen people losing their lives on the mountain. After spending two unsettling days stranded on Everest, Davidson's team was rescued by helicopter. The experience left him shaken, and despite his thirty-three years of climbing and serving as an expedition leader, he wasn’t sure that he would ever go back. But in the face of risk and uncertainty, he returned in 2017 and finally achieved his dream of reaching the summit. Suspenseful and engrossing, The Next Everest portrays the experience of living through the biggest disaster to ever hit the mountain. Davidson's background in geology and environmental science makes him uniquely qualified to explain why the seismic threats lurking beneath Nepal are even greater today. But this story is not about “conquering” the world’s highest peak. Instead, it reveals how embracing change, challenge, and uncertainty prepares anyone to face their next “Everest” in life.

Author : Jim Davidson
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250836755

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The Next Everest by Jim Davidson Pdf

"A dramatic account of the deadly earthquake on Everest--and a return to reach the summit."--Back cover.

Author : Jim Davidson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250272297

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The Next Everest by Jim Davidson Pdf

Author : Gordon Korman
Publisher : Scholastic Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545392322

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The Contest by Gordon Korman Pdf

Dominic, Chris, Perry, Tilt, Sammi, Bryn, and Cameron compete with each other to be selected as part of a team of teenage climbers with the goal of ascending Mount Everest.

Author : Gordon Korman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0439411378

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The Summit by Gordon Korman Pdf

Kids from all over North America vie to be the first youngest person to climb Mount Everest. When the final four reach the highest peaks, disaster strikes.

Author : Mark Pfetzer,Jack Galvin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780141304977

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Within Reach by Mark Pfetzer,Jack Galvin Pdf

In May 1996 the media scrambled to document the gripping story of sixteen-year-old Mark Pfetzer's expedition to Mount Everest. Not only was he the youngest climber ever to attempt the summit, he also witnessed the tragedy documented in Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, in which eight climbers perished in a sudden storm. Within Reach is Mark's extraordinary account of this experience and of his triumphs over several other challenging peaks. At once triumphant and tragic, this story will be an inspiration to climbers, athletes, and armchair enthusiasts alike.

Author : Jim Davidson,Kevin Vaughan
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-26
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780345523211

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The Ledge by Jim Davidson,Kevin Vaughan Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The authors bring extreme climbing to life. . . . Perhaps no author can rationalize why some choose to risk their lives . . . for the thrill of conquering a mountain. The Ledge comes perilously close and tells a ripping true story at the same time.”—The Denver Post In June 1992, best friends Jim Davidson and Mike Price stood atop Washington’s Mount Rainier, celebrating what they hoped would be the first of many milestones in their lives as passionate mountaineers. Then their triumph turned tragic when a cave-in plunged them deep inside a glacial crevasse—the pitch-black, ice-walled hell of every climber’s nightmares. An avid adventurer since youth, Davidson was a seasoned climber at the time of the Rainier ascent. But the harrowing free fall left him challenged by nature’s grandeur at its most unforgiving. Trapped on a narrow frozen shelf, deep below daylight, he desperately battled crumbling ice, snow that threatened to bury him alive, and crippling fear of the inescapable chasm below—all the while struggling to save his fatally injured friend. Finally, alone, with little equipment and rapidly dwindling hope, he confronted a fateful choice: the certainty of a slow, lonely death or the near impossibility of an agonizing climb for life. A story of heart-stopping adventure, heartfelt friendship, fleeting mortality, and implacable nature, The Ledge chronicles the elation and grief, dizzying heights and punishing depths, of a journey to hard-won wisdom. “Plunges readers into a dark, icy chasm from which escape seems impossible. Then it reveals the strength it takes to look up, and to start climbing.”—Jim Sheeler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the National Book Award finalist Final Salute “How [Davidson] rescued himself is the core of The Ledge, and its most gripping part. The physical effort and will involved are astonishing.”—The Plain Dealer “A moving portrait of friendship and loss.”—The Wall Street Journal

Author : Craig Storti
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1529331552

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The Hunt for Mount Everest by Craig Storti Pdf

Author : Ryan Jacobson,Deb Mercier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1591932750

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Storm at the Summit of Mount Everest by Ryan Jacobson,Deb Mercier Pdf

By making a series of choices, the reader determines if Zach and his sister Zoey survive their climb to the summit of Mount Everest after they get caught in a terrible blizzard.

Author : Göran Kropp,David Lagercrantz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
ISBN : UCSC:32106018298734

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Ultimate High by Göran Kropp,David Lagercrantz Pdf

A personal account of one man's determination to climb Mount Everest alone describes how the Swedish climber accomplished his goal, within days of the 1995 tragedy that took the lives of a number of fellow climbers.

Author : Mick Conefrey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781639361465

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Everest 1922 by Mick Conefrey Pdf

The dramatic and inspiring account of the very first attempt to climb Mount Everest, published to coincide with the centenary of the expedition of 1922. The first attempt on Everest in 1922 by George Leigh Mallory and a British team is an extraordinary story full of controversy, drama, and incident, populated by a set of larger-than-life characters straight out of an adventure novel. The expedition ended in tragedy when, on their third bid for the top, Mallory's party was hit by an avalanche that left seven men dead. Using diaries, letters, and unpublished accounts, Mick Conefrey creates a rich, character-driven narrative that explores the motivations and private dramas of the key individuals—detailing their backroom politics and bitter rivalries—who masterminded this epic adventure.

Author : Ed Viesturs,David Roberts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781451694758

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The Mountain by Ed Viesturs,David Roberts Pdf

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 world’s highest peak. In The Mountain, 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—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 Everest’s various ascents—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 mountaineering’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 Heraclitus’s maxim—“Character is destiny”—is proved time and again.

Author : Mark Synnott
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781524745592

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The Third Pole by Mark Synnott Pdf

***NPR Books We Love selection*** “If you’re only going to read one Everest book this decade, make it The Third Pole. . . . A riveting adventure.”—Outside Shivering, exhausted, gasping for oxygen, beyond doubt . . . A hundred-year mystery lured veteran climber Mark Synnott into an unlikely expedition up Mount Everest during the spring 2019 season that came to be known as “the Year Everest Broke.” What he found was a gripping human story of impassioned characters from around the globe and a mountain that will consume your soul—and your life—if you let it. The mystery? On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine set out to stand on the roof of the world, where no one had stood before. They were last seen eight hundred feet shy of Everest’s summit still “going strong” for the top. Could they have succeeded decades before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay? Irvine is believed to have carried a Kodak camera with him to record their attempt, but it, along with his body, had never been found. Did the frozen film in that camera have a photograph of Mallory and Irvine on the summit before they disappeared into the clouds, never to be seen again? Kodak says the film might still be viable. . . . Mark Synnott made his own ascent up the infamous North Face along with his friend Renan Ozturk, a filmmaker using drones higher than any had previously flown. Readers witness first-hand how Synnott’s quest led him from oxygen-deprivation training to archives and museums in England, to Kathmandu, the Tibetan high plateau, and up the North Face into a massive storm. The infamous traffic jams of climbers at the very summit immediately resulted in tragic deaths. Sherpas revolted. Chinese officials turned on Synnott’s team. An Indian woman miraculously crawled her way to frostbitten survival. Synnott himself went off the safety rope—one slip and no one would have been able to save him—committed to solving the mystery. Eleven climbers died on Everest that season, all of them mesmerized by an irresistible magic. The Third Pole is a rapidly accelerating ride to the limitless joy and horror of human obsession.

Author : Ed Caesar
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501143380

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The Moth and the Mountain by Ed Caesar Pdf

"In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Mount Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceives his own crazy, beautiful plan: he will fly a plane from England to Everest, crash-land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit--all utterly alone. Wilson doesn't know how to climb. He barely knows how to fly. But he has the right plane, the right equipment, and a deep yearning to achieve his goal. In 1933, he takes off from London in a Gipsy Moth biplane with his course set for the highest mountain on earth. Wilson's eleven-month journey to Everest is wild: full of twists, turns, and daring. Eventually, in disguise, he sneaks into Tibet. His icy ordeal is just beginning."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Louis W. Kasischke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1940877032

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After the Wind by Louis W. Kasischke Pdf

In the spring of 1996, Lou Kasischke joined renowned climber Rob Hall's Mount Everest expedition. When he said goodbye to his wife, Sandy, he knew he faced major physical and mental challenges against rock, snow, ice, avalanches, and extreme high altitude to climb the highest mountain in the world.What Lou didn't know was that he also stood at the threshold of a living hell. Six weeks later near the top, things went wrong. Lou and his fellow climbers faced a challenge even greater than the mountain -- the internal struggle about what to do when you are close but out of time. There were no second chances. Decisions were made. Some lived. Some died. It was the worst tragedy in Mount Everest history.Lou wrote his account of the events 16 years ago in the aftermath of the tragedy, but only now is he ready to let it go. He tells two stories. One is about the historic events. His perspective and analysis about what happened and what went wrong have never been told, and his account differs markedly from what others have written. The truth in the story depends on who is telling it. Lou Kasischke believes that some of the truth may never be told.Lou also tells a very personal story about how he came back home. An inspiring story about where to go for inner strength when facing a tough decision. A story about his wife Sandy's part in his survival. A story about what he heard, after the wind -- the voice of the heart. A love story.