The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--The World's Deadliest Peak by Viesturs, Ed
The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--The World's Deadliest Peak by Viesturs, Ed

The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--The World's Deadliest Peak

The bestselling author of The Mountain and No Shortcuts to the Top chronicles his three attempts to...
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The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--The World's Deadliest Peak by Viesturs, Ed

The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--The World's Deadliest Peak

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The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--The World's Deadliest Peak by Viesturs, Ed

The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--The World's Deadliest Peak

$39.65
Author: Ed Viesturs
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
The bestselling author of The Mountain and No Shortcuts to the Top chronicles his three attempts to climb the world's tenth-highest and statistically deadliest peak while exploring the dramatic and tragic history of others who have made--or attempted--the ascent.

"Viesturs and Roberts have written an exhaustively researched and wonderfully compelling history of the most fascinating and dangerous of the Himalayan giants."--David Breashers, veteran mountaineer and documentary filmmaker, director of IMAX film Everest

As a high school student, Ed Viesturs read and was captivated by the French climber Maurice Herzog's famous and grisly account of the first ascent of Annapurna in 1950. When he began his own campaign to climb the world's fourteen highest peaks in the late 1980s, Viesturs looked forward with trepidation to undertaking Annapurna himself. Two failures to summit in 2000 and 2002 made Annapurna his nemesis. His successful 2005 ascent was the triumphant capstone of his climbing quest.

In The Will to Climb Viesturs and co-author David Roberts bring the extraordinary challenges of Annapurna to vivid life through edge-of-your-seat accounts of the greatest climbs in the mountain's history, and of his own failed attempts and eventual success. In the process Viesturs ponders what Annapurna reveals about some of our most fundamental moral and spiritual questions--questions, he believes, that we need to answer to lead our lives well.

Author: Ed Viesturs, David Roberts
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 10/23/2012
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.36w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780307720436

About the Author
ED VIESTURS is the first and only American to ascend all fourteen of the world's 8,000-meter peaks without supplemental oxygen and the author of The Mountain, No Shortcuts to the Top, and K2.

In addition to his collaborations with Ed Viesturs, DAVID ROBERTS is the author of more than twenty books, including Finding Everett Ruess.


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