The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier

en Limba Engleză CD-Audio – 30 iun 2011

On June 21, 1992, two best friends summited Mount Rainier. Within hours, their exquisite accomplishment would be overshadowed by tragedy. On their descent, Jim Davidson fell through an ice bridge on Rainier's northeast flank, plunging eighty feet into a narrow crevasse inside the Emmons Glacier and dragging Mike Price in after him. Mike fell to his death; Jim, badly injured and armed with minimal gear, faced an almost impossible climb back out of the crevasse, up a nearly vertical ice wall. Mourning his friend's death, he miraculously climbed out of the crevasse and lived to relate his experiences.Told in parallel narratives of the tragedy and the climbers' lives, The Ledge is both a riveting, wrenching story and an inspirational adventure tale.

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ISBN-13: 9781452602745
ISBN-10: 1452602743
Dimensiuni: 164 x 143 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Ediția:Completă
Editura: TANTOR MEDIA INC

Recenzii

"Davidson and journalist Vaughn have crafted a modern Aristotelian tragedy." ---Publishers Weekly

Notă biografică

Jim Davidson is an accomplished climber, speaker, and science writer. Since 1982, he has climbed across the United States and been on high-altitude expeditions to Alaska, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Nepal, and Tibet. Formerly an environmental geologist, he is now a professional speaker with Speaking of Adventure and has spoken to more than 30,000 people across the United States and overseas. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife and two children. Kevin Vaughan is a staff writer at the Denver Post who has written on a wide variety of topics and has won numerous awards for his journalism, including a nomination for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing. A graduate of Metropolitan State College, he lives in Colorado with his wife and their three children. Jim Davidson is an accomplished climber, speaker, and science writer. Since 1982, he has climbed across the United States and been on high-altitude expeditions to Alaska, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Nepal, and Tibet. Formerly an environmental geologist, he is now a professional speaker with Speaking of Adventure and has spoken to more than 30,000 people across the United States and overseas. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife and two children.

Descriere

"Between a Rock and a Hard Place" meets "Into the Void" in this harrowing account of a terrible mountaineering accident and one man's amazing escape from a hellish fall--a second-by-second retelling of tragedy, survival, and renewal.