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No Shortcuts to the Top

Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks

Pocket
Engelsk
No Shortcuts to the Top
No Shortcuts to the Top
  • Forfattere: Ed Viesturs , David Roberts
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 384
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • EAN: 9780767924719
  • Utgivelsesår: 2007
  • Bidragsyter: Viesturs, Ed; Roberts, David
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This gripping and triumphant memoir from the author of The Mountain follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.

“From the drama of the peaks, to the struggle of making a living as a professional climber, to the basic how-tos of life at 26,000 feet, No Shortcuts to the Top is fascinating reading.”—Aron Ralston, author of Between a Rock and a Hard Place and subject of the film 127 Hours

For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to the Top is as much about the man who would become the first American to achieve that goal as it is about his stunning quest. As Viesturs recounts the stories of his most harrowing climbs, he reveals a man torn between the flat, safe world he and