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Already a number-one London Sunday Times best seller, Mud, Sweat, and Tears is the adrenaline-fueled autobiography of the mega-popular star of the hit survival series Man vs. Wild, adventurer Bear Grylls. A former British Special Forces commando, a man who has always sought the ultimate in dangerous challenges, Bear's true story reads like an outdoors action-and-adventure novel. But Bear's story is true - full of breathtaking escapes and remarkable exploits that would make any Jack London or H. Ryder Haggard hero proud.
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Love this book
- De Aaron en 04-07-13
De: Bear Grylls
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Ghosts of K2
- De: Mick Conefrey
- Narrado por: Barnaby Edwards
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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At 28,251 feet, K2 might be almost 800 feet shorter than Everest, but it’s a far harder climb. It will kill you on the way up and the way down. Mick Conefrey guides us through the early story of the legendary mountain and the extraordinary attempts that led up to its first ascent in 1954 - these are tales of riveting drama and unimaginable tragedy.
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First Review? It was an "okay" book
- De Matthew en 10-20-15
De: Mick Conefrey
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Skywalker
- Highs and Lows on the Pacific Crest Trail
- De: Bill Walker
- Narrado por: Bill Walker
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
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The Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail (PCT )is the perfect place for an average person to do something extraordinary. Bill Walker ("Skywalker"), who stands 6'11", might seem like anything but average. Yet in a brutally honest tone, he lays to bare all his considerable weaknesses and fears. Among these are crushing weight loss and fatigue, along with a fear of getting lost or a bear stealing his food. Nonetheless, he is bound and determined to hike the PCT which - at 2,663 miles - runs all the way from Mexico to Canada.
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One persons account
- De Virginia en 03-30-15
De: Bill Walker
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Buried in the Sky
- The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
- De: Peter Zuckerman, Amanda Padoan
- Narrado por: David Doersch
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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When Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. Indeed, for as long as Westerners have been climbing the Himalaya, Sherpas have been the unsung heroes in the background. In August 2008, when eleven climbers lost their lives on K2, the world’s most dangerous peak, two Sherpas survived. They had emerged from poverty and political turmoil to become two of the most skillful mountaineers on earth. Based on unprecedented access and interviews, Buried in the Sky reveals their astonishing story for the first time.
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Sherpas, The True Unsung Heroes
- De Kathy in CA en 07-26-15
De: Peter Zuckerman, y otros
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Blind Descent
- The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth
- De: James Tabor
- Narrado por: Don Leslie
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
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Blind Descent explores both the brightest and darkest aspects of the timeless human urge to discover - to be first. It is also a thrilling epic about a pursuit that makes even extreme mountaineering and ocean exploration pale by comparison.
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Amazing Courage!!
- De RGH en 11-07-10
De: James Tabor
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The Pursuit of Endurance
- Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience
- De: Jennifer Pharr Pharr Davis
- Narrado por: Jennifer Pharr Davis
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
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Jennifer Pharr Davis, the former record holder of the FKT (or Fastest Known Time) on the Appalachian Trail, tells the story of her meteoric rise in the world of endurance hiking and, in doing so, unpacks key traits that make women uniquely suited to endurance. With a storyteller's ear for fascinating detail and description, she takes us with her as she sets the record on the Appalachian Trail and introduces us to the mentors who helped her to identify and unlock different facets of her endurance capabilities.
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Not uplifting
- De M en 05-15-18
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The Third Pole
- Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest
- De: Mark Synnott
- Narrado por: Steve Campbell
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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A hundred-year mystery lured veteran climber Mark Synnott into an unlikely expedition up Mount Everest during the spring 2019 season that came to be known as “the Year Everest Broke”. What he found was a gripping human story of impassioned characters from around the globe and a mountain that will consume your soul - and your life - if you let it.
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This is not a book about the search for Sandy Irvine
- De erik en 09-15-21
De: Mark Synnott
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No Summit out of Sight
- The True Story of the Youngest Person to Climb the Seven Summits
- De: Jordan Romero, Linda LeBlanc - contributor
- Narrado por: Kyle Tait
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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On May 22, 2010, at the age of 13, American teenager Jordan Romero became the youngest person to climb to the summit of Mount Everest. At 15, he became the youngest person to reach the summits of the tallest mountains on each of the seven continents. In this energizing memoir for young adults, Jordan recounts his experience, which started as a spark of an idea at the age of nine and, many years of training and hard work later, turned into a dream come true.
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Great book. Very inspiring for the youth of today.
- De Amazon Customer en 08-31-20
De: Jordan Romero, y otros
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Never Give Up
- De: Bear Grylls
- Narrado por: Tom Stevens
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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Admired by millions as the star of Man vs. Wild and the acclaimed NGC series Running Wild, global adventurer Bear Grylls has explored places few would dare to go. Now, he shares time-honored lessons for leading an adventurous life through stories drawn from his personal experiences, as well as encounters with a diverse group of celebrities who have participated in his wildly popular television shows.
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Great Family Road Trip
- De MFairbanks en 08-01-22
De: Bear Grylls
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I Hike
- De: Lawton Grinter
- Narrado por: Lawton Grinter
- Duración: 5 h y 8 m
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"I never set out to hike 10,000 miles. It just sort of happened over the course of a decade." And so goes Lawton Grinter's compelling collection of short stories that have been over ten years and 10,000 trail miles in the making. I Hike brings the reader trailside with blissful moments on the highest mountain ridges to the mental lows of mosquito hell and into some peculiar situations that even seasoned hikers may find unbelievable.
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The best hiking book I've read yet
- De Blobsquatch en 07-04-15
De: Lawton Grinter
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Run!
- 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss
- De: Dean Karnazes
- Narrado por: Daniel May
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
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In his follow-up to the best-selling Ultra-Marathon Man, world-renowned ultra marathoner Dean Karnazes chronicles his unbelievable exploits and explorations in gripping detail; Karnazes runs for days on end without rest, across some of the most exotic and inhospitable places on earth, including the Australian Outback, Antarctica, and the back alleys of New Jersey.
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Great stories. Horrible narrator.
- De Alberto Medellin en 08-20-15
De: Dean Karnazes
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The White Darkness
- De: David Grann
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 2 h y 28 m
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Henry Worsley spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the 19th-century polar explorer who tried to become the first person to reach the South Pole and later sought to cross Antarctica on foot. Worsley felt an overpowering connection to those expeditions. In 2008, Worsley set out across Antarctica with two other descendants of Shackleton's crew, battling the freezing, desolate landscape and life-threatening physical exhaustion. He soon felt compelled to go back. In 2015, Worsley bid farewell to his family and embarked on his most perilous quest: to walk across Antarctica alone.
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Will Patton's narration
- De Carol en 01-18-19
De: David Grann
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Running Up That Hill
- The Highs and Lows of Going That Bit Further
- De: Vassos Alexander
- Narrado por: Vassos Alexander
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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Vassos Alexander shares his insight from interviews with legends of the sport and his own gruelling but rewarding experiences of extraordinary endurance racing - including the legendary 152 mile Spartathlon, widely regarded as the world's most relentless race. Vassos dissects and explores the tenacity that propels many to keep on running and running and running....
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Enjoyable
- De Paul en 05-28-23
De: Vassos Alexander
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K2
- Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
- De: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering, with good reason. Four times as deadly as Everest, K2 has claimed the lives of seventy-seven climbers since 1954. In August 2008 eleven climbers died in a single thirty-six-hour period on K2–the worst single-event tragedy in the mountain's history and the second-worst in the long chronicle of mountaineering in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges.
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Almost Makes You Want to Climb K2... Almost
- De JJ en 12-30-15
De: Ed Viesturs, y otros
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The Mountain
- My Time on Everest
- De: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts - contributor
- Narrado por: Tom Beyer
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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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.
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Good book narrator needs some O2.
- De Amazon Customer en 11-01-23
De: Ed Viesturs, y otros
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The Climb
- De: Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
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The Climb is a true, gripping, and thought-provoking account of the worst disaster in the history of Mt. Everest: On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by experienced leaders attempted to climb the highest mountain in the world, but things went terribly wrong...
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Counterpoint to
- De Bob Ellis en 01-26-04
De: Anatoli Boukreev, y otros
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No Way Down
- Life and Death on K2
- De: Graham Bowley
- Narrado por: Sam Breen
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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In the tradition of Into Thin Air and Touching the Void, No Way Down by New York Times reporter Graham Bowley is the harrowing account of the worst mountain climbing disaster on K2, second to Everest in height . . . but second to no peak in terms of danger. From tragic deaths to unbelievable stories of heroism and survival, No Way Down is an amazing feat of storytelling and adventure writing, and, in the words of explorer and author Sir Ranulph Fiennes, "the closest you can come to being on the summit of K2 on that fateful day."
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A story about pushing life to the edge
- De Cliff B. en 08-30-24
De: Graham Bowley
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Life Lived Wild
- Adventures at the Edge of the Map (Patagonia)
- De: Rick Ridgeway
- Narrado por: Rick Ridgeway
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he’s spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents: “And most of that in small tents pitched in the world’s most remote regions.” It’s not a boast so much as an explanation. Whether at elevation or raising a family back at sea level, those years taught him, he writes, “to distinguish matters of consequence from matters of inconsequence.” He leaves it to his listeners to do the final sort of which is which.
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The hypocrisy and boasting ego. Blood boiling.
- De Amazon Customer en 12-30-21
De: Rick Ridgeway
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Alone on the Ice
- The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
- De: David Roberts
- Narrado por: Matthew Brenher
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp - the dogs were gone. Mawson plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface. On February 8, when he staggered back to base, his features unrecognizable, the first teammate to reach him blurted out, "Which one are you?"
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Put Another Log on the Fire
- De Mel en 02-07-13
De: David Roberts
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K2
- Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain
- De: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering, with good reason. Four times as deadly as Everest, K2 has claimed the lives of seventy-seven climbers since 1954. In August 2008 eleven climbers died in a single thirty-six-hour period on K2–the worst single-event tragedy in the mountain's history and the second-worst in the long chronicle of mountaineering in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges.
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Almost Makes You Want to Climb K2... Almost
- De JJ en 12-30-15
De: Ed Viesturs, y otros
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The Mountain
- My Time on Everest
- De: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts - contributor
- Narrado por: Tom Beyer
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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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.
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Good book narrator needs some O2.
- De Amazon Customer en 11-01-23
De: Ed Viesturs, y otros
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The Climb
- De: Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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The Climb is a true, gripping, and thought-provoking account of the worst disaster in the history of Mt. Everest: On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by experienced leaders attempted to climb the highest mountain in the world, but things went terribly wrong...
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Counterpoint to
- De Bob Ellis en 01-26-04
De: Anatoli Boukreev, y otros
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No Way Down
- Life and Death on K2
- De: Graham Bowley
- Narrado por: Sam Breen
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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In the tradition of Into Thin Air and Touching the Void, No Way Down by New York Times reporter Graham Bowley is the harrowing account of the worst mountain climbing disaster on K2, second to Everest in height . . . but second to no peak in terms of danger. From tragic deaths to unbelievable stories of heroism and survival, No Way Down is an amazing feat of storytelling and adventure writing, and, in the words of explorer and author Sir Ranulph Fiennes, "the closest you can come to being on the summit of K2 on that fateful day."
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A story about pushing life to the edge
- De Cliff B. en 08-30-24
De: Graham Bowley
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Life Lived Wild
- Adventures at the Edge of the Map (Patagonia)
- De: Rick Ridgeway
- Narrado por: Rick Ridgeway
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he’s spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents: “And most of that in small tents pitched in the world’s most remote regions.” It’s not a boast so much as an explanation. Whether at elevation or raising a family back at sea level, those years taught him, he writes, “to distinguish matters of consequence from matters of inconsequence.” He leaves it to his listeners to do the final sort of which is which.
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The hypocrisy and boasting ego. Blood boiling.
- De Amazon Customer en 12-30-21
De: Rick Ridgeway
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Alone on the Ice
- The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
- De: David Roberts
- Narrado por: Matthew Brenher
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp - the dogs were gone. Mawson plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface. On February 8, when he staggered back to base, his features unrecognizable, the first teammate to reach him blurted out, "Which one are you?"
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Put Another Log on the Fire
- De Mel en 02-07-13
De: David Roberts
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Buried in the Sky
- The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
- De: Peter Zuckerman, Amanda Padoan
- Narrado por: David Doersch
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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When Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. Indeed, for as long as Westerners have been climbing the Himalaya, Sherpas have been the unsung heroes in the background. In August 2008, when eleven climbers lost their lives on K2, the world’s most dangerous peak, two Sherpas survived. They had emerged from poverty and political turmoil to become two of the most skillful mountaineers on earth. Based on unprecedented access and interviews, Buried in the Sky reveals their astonishing story for the first time.
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Sherpas, The True Unsung Heroes
- De Kathy in CA en 07-26-15
De: Peter Zuckerman, y otros
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Touching the Void
- De: Joe Simpson
- Narrado por: Andrew Wincott, Daniel Weyman
- Duración: 6 h y 52 m
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Joe Simpson, with just his partner, Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000-foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June of 1985. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell their non-climbing companion that Joe was dead. For three days he wrestled with guilt as they prepared to return home. Then a cry in the night took them out with torches, where they found Joe, badly injured.
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Wonderfully told true story
- De David Shear en 01-17-14
De: Joe Simpson
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Ghosts of K2
- De: Mick Conefrey
- Narrado por: Barnaby Edwards
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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At 28,251 feet, K2 might be almost 800 feet shorter than Everest, but it’s a far harder climb. It will kill you on the way up and the way down. Mick Conefrey guides us through the early story of the legendary mountain and the extraordinary attempts that led up to its first ascent in 1954 - these are tales of riveting drama and unimaginable tragedy.
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First Review? It was an "okay" book
- De Matthew en 10-20-15
De: Mick Conefrey
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Beyond the Mountain
- De: Steve House, Reinhold Messner - foreword
- Narrado por: Steve House
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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What does it take to be one of the world's best high-altitude mountain climbers? A lot of fundraising; traveling in some of the world's most dangerous countries; enduring cold bivouacs, searing lungs, and a cloudy mind when you can least afford one. It means learning the hard lessons the mountains teach. Steve House built his reputation on ascents throughout the Alps, Canada, Alaska, the Karakoram, and the Himalaya that have expanded possibilities of style, speed, and difficulty.
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A life-changing book
- De barbudo en 05-02-18
De: Steve House, y otros
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The Shining Mountain
- De: Peter Boardman
- Narrado por: Stewart Crank
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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"It’s a preposterous plan. Still, if you do get up it, it’ll be the hardest thing that’s been done in the Himalayas." Thus spoke Chris Bonington when Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker presented him with their plan to tackle the unscaled West Wall of Changabang - the Shining Mountain - in 1976. Bonington’s was one of the more positive responses; most felt the climb impossibly hard, especially for a two-man, lightweight expedition.
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An absolute classic
- De Kindle Customer en 08-28-20
De: Peter Boardman
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Left for Dead
- My Journey Home from Everest
- De: Beck Weathers, Stephen G. Michaud
- Narrado por: Roger Wayne
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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In 1996, Beck Weathers and a climbing team pushed toward the summit of Mount Everest. Then a storm exploded on the mountain, ripping the team to shreds, forcing brave men to scratch and crawl for their lives. In this powerful memoir, Weathers describes not only his escape from hypothermia and the murderous storm that killed eight climbers but the journey of his life. This is the story of a man's route to a dangerous sport and a fateful expedition, as well as the road of recovery he has traveled since.
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Bait-and-switch
- De Reggie en 05-07-19
De: Beck Weathers, y otros
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Dark Summit
- The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
- De: Nick Heil
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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In early May 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit. A week later, Lincoln Hall, a seasoned Australian climber, was left for dead near the same spot. Hall's death was reported around the world, but the next day he was found alive after spending the night on the upper mountain with no food and no shelter.
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Good summary of the 2006 season
- De Don Lance en 05-30-09
De: Nick Heil
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Miracle in the Andes
- 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
- De: Nando Parrado, Vince Rause
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team to Chile had crashed deep in the Andes, killing many of his teammates, his mother, and his sister. Stranded with the few remaining survivors on a lifeless glacier and thinking constantly of his father’s grief, Parrado resolved that he could not simply wait to die. So Parrado, an ordinary young man with no particular disposition for leadership or heroism, led an expedition up the treacherous slopes of a snowcapped mountain and across forty-five miles of frozen wilderness.
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A Must Listen
- De KevinH en 01-10-08
De: Nando Parrado, y otros
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Into Thin Air
- A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
- De: Jon Krakauer
- Narrado por: Philip Franklin
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
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The definitive, personal account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed journalist and author of Into the Wild. Read by the author. Also, hear a Fresh Air interview with Krakauer conducted shortly after his ordeal.
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Audio version RUINED with new narrator!
- De Shannon Ellis en 02-06-16
De: Jon Krakauer
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Eiger Dreams
- Ventures Among Men and Mountains
- De: Jon Krakauer
- Narrado por: Philip Franklin
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo madness to scale Alaska's notorious Devils Thumb.
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Entertaining but Irresponsible Writing
- De Ram en 04-07-18
De: Jon Krakauer
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The Last of His Kind
- The Life and Adventures of Bradford Washburn, America's Boldest Mountaineer
- De: David Roberts
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
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In The Last of His Kind, renowned adventure writer David Roberts gives readers a spellbinding history of mountain climbing in the twentieth century as told through the biography of Brad Washburn, legendary mountaineering pioneer and photographer. Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air, has praised David Roberts, saying, “Nobody alive writes better about mountaineering” - and nowhere is that truth more evident than in this breathtaking account of the life and exploits of America’s greatest mountain climber.
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Great introduction to Washburn & climbing elites
- De Geoffrey en 04-27-22
De: David Roberts
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Annapurna
- A Woman's Place
- De: Arlene Blum, Maurice Herzog - foreword
- Narrado por: Eileen Stevens
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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Never before has such an account of mountaineering triumph and tragedy been told from a woman's point of view. By proving that women had the skill, strength, and courage necessary to make this difficult and dangerous climb, the 1978 Women's Himalayan Expedition's accomplishment had a positive impact around the world, changing perceptions about women's abilities in sports and other arenas. And Annapurna: A Woman's Place has become an acknowledged classic in the annals of women's achievements - a story of challenge and commitment told with passion, humor, and unflinching honesty.
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An Actual Review (From Someone Who Listened)
- De Vinckei en 07-16-19
De: Arlene Blum, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre No Shortcuts to the Top
Calificaciones medias de los clientesReseñas - Selecciona las pestañas a continuación para cambiar el origen de las reseñas.
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- Jason
- 09-15-17
Can't stop listening!
This book is an amazingly well written book covering so many aspects of mountaineering and the life of Ed. The story flows so well and the amount of detail given about each step of the way is incredible. I cannot recommend this enough to the aspiring climber, mountaineer, or anyone with a curiosity of what mountaineering really is.
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- Gary
- 03-16-10
I wanted not to like him
I read a audio review about Ed Viesturs being real stuck up on himself. But I had just listened to Into Thin Air and I was hungry for more information about '96 on Everest and the dead zone above 26,000 ft.
As I listened to the book, I found myself agreeing with this negative assessment - at first. But as I went along I decided this was more due to the person reading, and I decided to give Mr Viesturs the benefit of a doubt! My apologies, Ed.
This book was a good listen. It I Introduced me to an exclusive world above 8000 meters, where only Ed and a few others have been. If I had picked up Herzog's book on Annapurna in the 70's maybe it would have been me . . . . Nah!
Thanks.
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- Niraj suresh
- 04-28-16
What a book!!
Fantastic narrative, amazing narrator... all in all, now one of my favorite books ever! I couldn't stop listening; it's sure to motivate any adventurer or really anyone looking to succeed in life.
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- Ugway
- 06-15-18
An amazing insight to 8000 meter peaks
Damn pleased to hear this book...! Gives an insight into grit, determination and safety on mountains. A personal journey of ED but he takes you with him... I felt the narration by Stephen Hoye was really good too. Salute to ED and his teammates...to the angels in the sky who have lost their lives to these mountains... to Paula and the kids for being ever so brave.....!
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- Alexander
- 01-27-07
No Shortcuts to the Top
Excellent memoir with great detail of Ed Viestur's excursions up the tallest mountains of the world. You are left with a strong appreciation of his accomplishments and a clear understanding of the death defying challenges he faced in meeting his personal goal to climb the world's 14 8000 meter + mountains. His direct narrative tone makes you feel as though he is sharing his inner most thoughts with you as he would a close friend. And you can't believe the circumstances he survived along the way. In the end he is an American hero. I recommend this book highly.
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- Gail Anderson
- 09-04-17
Thoroughly enjoyed this book!
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book! Ed Viestur's accomplishments are remarkable. He is an inspiring individual.
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- Babo Wright
- 04-27-09
I enjoyed it
I enjoyed the stories. I didn’t find Ed to be arrogant but he does seam to be a little crazy. Ed is proud of his accomplishments and I think he should be. His description of the effort evolved to reach the high peaks is inspiring.
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- Dean
- 04-16-22
Great book
I loved this book but the narrator really struggles with, well everything, but particularly pronouncing mountain names. He'll pronounce the same mountain three different (and wrong) ways in the same sentence. It got really distracting to hear him say Nun-goo Puehr-boot, Nin-go par-beet, Noon-gi peer-boat. Sure, not easy words but you're supposed to be a professional so look it up dude, and at least be consistent.
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- monkoman
- 08-15-22
Hang in there.
The poster with the cat it on and saying hang in there baby now I know what it meant. What would Eddy do?
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- Mowglie
- 03-17-23
about an inspiring alpinist, Ed
The book details the life of an amazing alpinist. The reader will learn a ton from this book. For example, you will learn about having a big mountian mind set, risk management, leadership, strategy, and what your life will look like as a big mountian connoisseur. A must read for inspiring climbers.
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