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| Original Title: | No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks |
| ISBN: | 0767924703 (ISBN13: 9780767924702) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Ed Viesturs
Hardcover | Pages: 368 pages Rating: 4.09 | 8778 Users | 512 Reviews
Details Of Books No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
| Title | : | No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks |
| Author | : | Ed Viesturs |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 368 pages |
| Published | : | October 17th 2006 by Broadway Books (first published January 1st 2006) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Sports. Mountaineering. Adventure. Biography. Travel. Autobiography. Memoir. Climbing |
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This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.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 his loved ones share and the majestic and deadly places where only he can go.
A preternaturally cautious climber who once turned back 300 feet from the top of Everest but who would not shrink from a peak (Annapurna) known to claim the life of one climber for every two who reached its summit, Viesturs lives by an unyielding motto, “Reaching the summit is optional. Getting down is mandatory.” It is with this philosophy that he vividly describes fatal errors in judgment made by his fellow climbers as well as a few of his own close calls and gallant rescues. And, for the first time, he details his own pivotal and heroic role in the 1996 Everest disaster made famous in Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air.
In addition to the raw excitement of Viesturs’s odyssey, No Shortcuts to the Top is leavened with many funny moments revealing the camaraderie between climbers. It is more than the first full account of one of the staggering accomplishments of our time; it is a portrait of a brave and devoted family man and his beliefs that shaped this most perilous and magnificent pursuit.
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Ratings: 4.09 From 8778 Users | 512 ReviewsRate Of Books No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
I collect mountaineering books and Ed Viesturs is pretty standard when it comes to reading about mountain climbing. This is an interesting entry in the subject from one of the world's top climbers. There is some interesting information from Viesturs' point of view and his climbing journals and it chronicles the evolution of a climber. Viesturs is a safety oriented guy so there aren't a lot of thrills and chills except from the ever present mother nature and the mountains. A good, solid entry inEngaging read. I found myself binge reading, chapters after chapters in anticipation that Ed Viesturs will eventually finish Endeavour 8000. But the 14 mountains haven't come easy at all...This book makes me want to tackle my own 'Annapurna'- to climb a 7000m mountain, while at the same time, makes me extremely fearful of doing so.
An autobiography of the first American climber who have climbed all fourteen 8000ers. It is not just chronological enumeration of what happened when he was climbing up the mountains, but it is also thrilling story, which shows unrelenting strength and determination of human. It serves as motivation for reader to chase his own dreams and conquer his own mountains.
I loved this book. Ed Viesturs' voice (or at least the voice that David Roberts helps him portray) kept me interested and invested throughout. His focus on needing to get down the mountain even if it costs him a summit attempt is refreshing in light of what I feel is often the tremendous hubris that bites a lot of high altitude climbers in the ass.
I got the opportunity to climb with Ed Viesturs on Rainier in July 2010. It was by accident and only for half an hour. I didn't know who he was at the time, but as he welcomed me onto his rope halfway up Cathedral Gap, I was struck by his charisma and positivity as I struggled with the thin air and the fat kid spilling his last two meals on the rocks behind me. As we climbed, he continually called out encouragements to the middle-aged man just behind on the rope. I didn't know who he was, but I
Fast-paced account of the mountaineering exploits of the author, particularly his feat of reaching the summits of all 14 of the world's mountains exceeding 8,000 meters in height. Describes his relatively conservative approach to managing the risks, which led him to turn back just short of several summits due to bad weather, avalanche-risk conditions of the snow, etc. on several occasions. Annapurna in particular thwarted him several times before he finally got to the summit.good to get his take
BookRiot 2018 Read Harder Challenge #6: A book about natureI read the reviews, so I know there is a whole cult of people, myself included, who can't get enough of mountain climbing books ever since they read Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster. Hey! Here's another one. Actually, if you've read Krakauer's book, Ed Viesturs' name should be familiar to you. He was at Everest in 1996 making the IMAX film (called, surprisingly, Everest) with David Breashears, and
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