The Mountain: My Time on Everest
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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.
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- 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.
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In this amiable history/memoir hybrid, noted high-altitude climber Viesturs discusses the joys and tribulations to be found on the world’s highest mountain and his successful quest to climb every peak over 8,000 meters. Few know more about Everest than Viesturs, who has participated in 11 expeditions there and spent over two years on its slopes. The author recounts his own experiences, as well as the struggles to conquer the mountain that began after it was first identified as the world’s highest point. While the stories of Mallory and Irving, Hillary and Norgay, have been told many times, Viesturs also addresses lesser-known attempts, and was himself present at the infamous 1996 disaster in which 15 climbers lost their lives. While he covers familiar ground here, Viesturs is a fount of firsthand knowledge and straightforward narration, and the book makes for a good read. Whether he’s discussing his own initial failure to summit Everest, or Jean-Marc Boivin’s demented paraglide down the mountain, he remains calm, measured, and informative. This can be a handicap, as readers might forget just how dangerous the mountain can be. As the only American who has summited the world’s 14 highest peaks without bottled oxygen, Viesturs has a different ruler than the rest of us by which to measure risk..
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Viesturs (The Will To Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest To Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak) is one of the most successful and well-known American mountaineers, having successfully climbed all the world's mountains higher than 8,000 meters without supplemental oxygen, an extraordinary accomplishment. Here he describes his 11 expeditions to Mount Everest from 1987 to 2009; he summited seven times. His many Everest highlights include his first summit, which was with the 1990 Peace Climb organized by Jim Whittaker that featured climbers from China, Russia, and the United States. He was featured in the 1996 Everest IMAX documentary filmed amid that year's tragic climbing season. Viesturs also participated in a 1997 expedition covered by NOVA (PBS) that tested the effects of high altitude on climbers' physiology and mental acumen. Interspersed among his own expedition reports, Viesturs discusses other expeditions that range from nationalistic, military-style campaigns to conquer the mountain to the Alpine-inspired fast and light aesthetic to the crowded "destination" of today's base camp. He also covers the various routes attempted on Everest's Southwest and Kangshung faces and the unclimbed Fantasy Ridge. VERDICT Fans of adventure, mountaineering, extreme sports, and Everest history will thoroughly enjoy Viesturs's latest book.--Margaret Atwater-Singer, Univ. of Evansville Lib., IN
Copyright 2013 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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