The Mountain: My Time on Everest Author: Ed Viesturs | Language: English | ISBN:
B00BSB2DAA | Format: EPUB
The Mountain: My Time on Everest Description
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.
- File Size: 43911 KB
- Print Length: 353 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: B00BW5SIY2
- Publisher: Touchstone (October 8, 2013)
- Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00BSB2DAA
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Ed Viesturs and David Roberts do it again. Ed probably has as much knowledge & experience on the subject of Mt. Everest as anyone on the planet. He also knows mountain climbing inside & out, having spent decades climbing the loftiest peaks in the world. Mt. Everest has a long & fascinating history with a long list of characters & events along with plenty of "high" drama. In this book the chapters alternate, with Ed telling about his own experiences on the mountain in one chapter and then telling about historical events on the mountain in the next. It was interesting to read about the adventures of George Mallory in the 1920's, for example, from the perspective of a climber with the knowledge and expertise of Ed Viesturs.
The authors continue by discussing many expeditions & climbers throughout the decades, including the British attempts on the mountain in the 1930's, the first successful climb in 1953, the first American on the summit in 1963, the first climb without oxygen in 1978, and many other climbs by various routes and under various conditions. With many of the climbs, it's amazing to read about what the climbers were able to accomplish, such as the first winter ascent, the first climb of the Kangshung Face, the first solo attempt, and so forth.
This book is so good that's it's difficult to find any drawbacks, but there were a couple minor ones. One is that no maps or diagrams are included in the book. Many different features on the mountain are mentioned repeatedly and it would help readers to visualize the climbs if there were at least a couple maps or diagrams showing the routes of the climbs.
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