No Shortcuts to the Top No Shortcuts to the Top No Shortcuts to the Top
Veteran mountain climber Ed Viesturs lives by a simple rule: "Reaching the summit is optional. Getting down is mandatory." Living by that guideline, he turned back just 300 feet from the top of Everest, but it didn't stop him from becoming the first American to successfully ascend all 14 of the...
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Veteran mountain climber Ed Viesturs lives by a simple rule: "Reaching the summit is optional. Getting down is mandatory." Living by that guideline, he turned back just 300 feet from the top of Everest, but it didn't stop him from becoming the first American to successfully ascend all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter (26,256-foot) peaks without the aid of bottled oxygen. No Shortcuts to the Top is a mountain climbing book, but its lure goes far beyond that. Viesturs' life and near-death experiences are rendered with disarming modesty and insight. Like Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, this book leaves one gasping -- and wiser.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780767926416 (0767926412)
Publish date: October 17th 2006
Publisher: Broadway Books
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Survival,
Nature,
Sports And Games,
Sports,
Mountaineering,
Outdoors,
Climbing
Viesturs is one of the premier mountaineers of America. The first American to climb all 14 8000 meter mountains in the world & the sixth to do so without supplemental oxygen. Chronicles his climbing adventures and personal life, most of which is intertwined.
If you know someone who's thinking about taking up mountain climbing, give him/her a copy of this book. Equal parts adventure story and cautionary tale, this book relates the author's harrowing stories of survival on some of the highest peaks on the planet. The difference between Viesturs' story a...
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